Crop Eepoet for the Month of June. 1905. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., July 1, 1905. 



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

 herewith presented. At the close of this bulletin is an 

 article on " How to supplement a short hay crop," by Prof. 

 Charles S. Phelps, superintendent of Grassland Farms, 

 Chapinville, Conn., and formerly professor of agriculture 

 at Storrs Agricultural College. At the time when this 

 article was arranged for, a light hay crop seemed inevitable, 

 and, even with the improvement that must come from the 

 recent rains, it would seem that information of this kind 

 would be timelj^ at this season. Professor Phelps has given 

 a great deal of attention to grasses and forage crops, and the 

 article will be found to be a particularly meaty and valuable 

 one. 



Progress of the Season. 



Preliminary returns to the Chief of the Bureau of Statis- 

 tics of the United States Department of Agriculture (Crop 

 Reporter for June, 1905) on the acreage of spring wheat 

 sown indicate an area of about 17,613,000 acres, an in- 

 crease of 472,000 acres, or 2.8 per cent, over the estimate 

 of the acreage sown last year. The average condition of 

 spring wheat on June 1 was 93.7, as compared with 93.4 at 

 the corresponding date last year, 95.9 on June 1, 1905, and 

 a ten-year average of 94.4. The average condition of winter 

 wheat was 85.5, as compared with 92.5 on May 1, 1905, 

 77.7 on June 1, 1904, 82.2 in 1903, and a ten-year average 

 of 79.2. 



The total area reported in oats is about 27,688,000 acres, 

 an increase of 42,000 acres, or .2 of 1 per cent, over the 

 area sown last year. The average condition of oats on 



