Crop Report for the Month of October, 1900. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1900. 



Bulletin No. 6, Crop Report for the month of October, 

 the final issue of the season, is herewith presented. We 

 wish once more to thank our correspondents for the assist- 

 ance they have so freely and consistently given us. We 

 shall look to each and every one for the renewal of their 

 good offices another spring if this work is continued, as it 

 doubtless will be. 



The special articles printed this season have been : Bulle- 

 tin No. 1, "Some Insects injuring Market-garden Crops," 

 by Prof. H. T. Fernald ; Bulletin No. 2, "Possibilities for 

 Farm Forestry in Massachusetts," by Allen Chamberlain ; 

 Bulletin No. 3, " Birds as Protectors of Woodlands," by E. 

 H. Forbush ; Bulletin No. 4, "Poultry Keeping on the 

 Farm," by Prof. A. A. Brigham ; and Bulletin No. 5, " The 

 Relation of Agriculture to the Public Health," by Dr. Samuel 

 W. Abbott. Particular attention is called to the article on 

 " Soil Exhaustion," by Prof. Geo. E. Stone, professor of 

 botany at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, which will 

 be found printed at the close of this bulletin. 



Progress of the Season. 



The October report of the statistician of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture gives the average condition of 

 corn on October 1 as 78.2, compared with 80.6 last month, 

 82.7 la>t year and 81, the mean of the October averages of 

 the last ten years. 



The preliminary estimate of the yield per acre of oats was 

 29.(3, as compared with 30.7 bushels last year, 27.8 bushels 

 in 1898 and a ten-year average of 26.2 bushels. 



