The acreage reported as under barley is six-tenths of 1 per 

 cent greater than the area harvested last year. The average 

 condition of barley is 86.2, against 91.4 last year, 78.8 at 

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

 88.5. 



The acreage under rye shows a reduction of 4.1 per cent 

 from that harvested last year. The average condition of rye 

 is 87.6, as compared with 84.5 on June 1 last year, 97.1 at 

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

 89.9. 



The average condition of the apple crop is exceptionally 

 favorable, the whole of the fourteen States having 3,000,000 

 or upward apple trees in bearing at the last census reporting 

 a condition above, and most of them considerably above, 

 their ten-year averages. Of the remaining States and Terri- 

 tories, all but some half dozen have the promise of more than 

 an average crop. 



The acreage of rice is somewhat less than that of last year. 

 The condition of rice is 5 points above the ten-year average 

 in Louisiana, the State of principal production, while in 

 South Carolina and North Carolina, which are next in rank, 

 it is 3 and 4 points, respectively, below the average. 



The present prospects of the peach crop are nothing less 

 than phenomenal, almost every important peach-growing 

 State reporting a condition far above the average, and some 

 even above 100. Among the latter are Delaware, Georgia 

 and North Carolina, whose reports of 106, 110, 105 are about 

 double their respective ten-year averages. California, with 

 a condition of 77, or 6 points below the average, is the only 

 noteworthy exception. 



The total area estimated as planted to cotton is 25,558,000 

 acres, an increase of 2,036,000 acres, or 8.7 per cent over 

 the productive area of last year. The average condition of 

 the growing crop on June 1 was 82.5, as compared with 

 85.7 last year, 89 at the corresponding date in 1898, and 

 87.1 the mean of the June averages of the last ten years. 

 This is the lowest June condition, with one exception, for 

 twenty years. A largely increased use of fertilizers is re- 

 ported from the older States, and unusual care is generally 

 being exercised in cultivation. 



