Crop Report for the Month of June, 1900. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., July 2, 1900. 



Bulletin No. 2, Crop Report for the month of June, is 

 herewith presented. We desire to call the attention of our 

 readers to the article at the close of the bulletin, on " Pos- 

 sibilities for Farm Forestry in Massachusetts," by Allen 

 Chamberlain, secretary of the Massachusetts Forestry Asso- 

 ciation. This is a subject which deserves more attention at 

 the hands of the farmers of the State than they usually give 

 to it, and we feel sure that a careful perusal of this article 

 cannot but be beneficial to all our readers. 



Progress of the Season. 



The June returns of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture (Crop Circular for June, 1900) indicate a 

 reduction of 1,676,000 acres in the winter wheat acreage, 

 in addition to that announced May 10, bringing the area of 

 winter wheat under cultivation June 1 down to 24,908,000 

 acres, or a reduction from the area sown in the fall of 

 5,240,000 acres. The condition of winter wheat also declined 

 during May 6.2 points, the condition June 1 being 82.7, 

 against 88.9 on May 1, 67.3 last year, 90.8 at the correspond- 

 ing date in 1898, and a ten-year average of 80.7. Prelimi- 

 nary reports on spring wheat acreage indicate a reduction of 

 about 567,000 acres, or 2.9 per cent. The average condition 

 of spring wheat June 1 was 87.3, as compared with 91.4 last 

 year, 100.9 at the corresponding date in 1898, and a ten- 

 year average of 93. 



The total reported acreage in oats exceeds the acreage 

 harvested last year by 3.9 per cent. The average condition 

 of oats is 91.7, against 88.7 on June 1 last year, 98 at the 

 corresponding date in 1898, and a ten-year average of 89.8. 



