The preliminary estimate of the yield per acre of barley 

 was 20.4 bushels, as compared with a yield of 25.5 bushels 

 last year, 21.6 bushels in 1898 and a ten-year average of 

 23.3 bushels. 



The preliminary estimate of the yield per acre of rye is 



15.1 bushels, as compared with 14.4 bushels last year, 15.6 

 bushels in 1898 and a ten-year average of 14 bushels. 



The average condition of buckwheat on October 1 was 

 72.8, as compared with 80.5 last month, 70.2 last year and 

 82.2, the mean of the October averages for the last ten years. 



The average condition of potatoes was 74.4, as compared 

 with 80 last month, 81.7 last year and a ten-year average of 

 74.1 



There had been a general decline in the condition of sweet 

 potatoes. 



The sugar cane crop of Louisiana maintained its high con- 

 dition of the previous mouth, 101, but in every other State 

 there was an impairment of condition. 



The condition of sorghum improved in Kansas, Texas and 

 Arkansas and declined in North Carolina, Georgia, Missis- 

 sippi, Kentucky and Tennessee. 



There was a general decline in the condition of apples, 

 but in many of the principal apple-growing States the con- 

 dition was still considerably above the average. 



Rice declined in condition in the South Atlantic States 

 from lack of rain. 



The average condition of cotton was 67, as compared with 



68.2 last month 62.4 last vear and 71.6, the mean of the 

 October averages of the last ten years. 



In Massachusetts the average yield of oats per acre was 

 given as 37, and the average quality as 90 ; the average 

 yield per acre of barley as 26, and the average quality as 

 87 ; the average yield per acre of rye as 17, and the average 

 quality as 90 ; the average condition of corn October 1 as 

 92 ; the average condition of buckwheat as 87 ; the average 

 condition of tobacco as 102 ; the average condition of potatoes 

 as 69 ; and the average condition of apples as 85. 



