purposes appears to be increasing in most localities. The 

 Southern white variety seems to be the one most generally 

 preferred. Celery has rusted badly in some sections but is 

 now fast recovering. The corn crop promises to be a good 

 one. In some sections blight has struck the corn fields and 

 some of them are reported as almost worthless. Corn cut- 

 ting has commenced, although most of the crop needs fully 

 a week of warm, dry weather. The tobacco crop was in 

 general a very good one and was harvested in excellent con- 

 dition. Some damage was done to the crop by rust and 

 fleas. On land where the first crop of grass was taken off 

 early the rowen crop is very large and much of it has been 

 secured in excellent shape. Pastures are holding out well. 

 Fruits of all kinds are inferior both in quantity and quality. 

 In the table will be found figures showing the averages of 

 crops by counties. On the last pages will be found an 

 extract from an address delivered at the Forty-Seventh 

 Annual Fair of the Housatonic Agricultural Society by Rev. 

 F. H. Rowley of North Adams. Copies of this bulletin will 

 be mailed on application. 



The Weather. 



The first half of the month of August was marked by 

 cloudy, muggy weather with occasional light rains. The 

 last half was warm and dry. No rain has fallen for the 

 past two weeks, and in some sections it is now very much 

 needed. This warm, dry weather following so long a period 

 of wet weather has caused vegetation of all kinds to mature 

 rapidly and everything to put on a fall-like appearance. 

 The rainfall for the month was rather below the average. 

 At Amherst it was 2.35 inches; at Leominster, 3.68; at 

 Boston, 3.95; and at Monroe, 4.18 inches. The average 

 rainfall at Amherst for the month of August for the past 

 twenty years was 3.92 inches. There was a slight frost at 

 Chester on the 29th, and at Templeton, on low land not pro- 

 tected by fog, on the 28th and 29th. Through the kindness 

 of the director of the Hatch Experiment Station of the 

 Massachusetts Agricultural College, we are enabled to print 

 the summary of the meteorological observatory at Amherst 

 for the month of August. 



