Crop Kepokt for the Month of May, 1905. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., June 1, 1905. 



Bulletin No. 1, Crop Report for the month of May, the 

 first monthly crop bulletin for the year, is herewith presented. 

 As at present planned for, these bulletins will follow the 

 usual lines for the year, with statistics regarding the crop 

 conditions of the country, weather conditions in Xew Eng- 

 land and throughout the remainder of the country, a sum- 

 mary of crop conditions compiled in this office from the 

 reports of our correspondents, selected reports of corre- 

 spondents, and at the close of the bulletin an article on some 

 timely subject by some recognized expert. An article on 

 " The management of mowings," by Prof. Wm. P. Brooks, 

 professor of agriculture at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College, is included in this bulletin. It is in a large meas- 

 ure supplementary to his article of last year on " The hay 

 crop in Massachusetts," and contains much matter of value 

 to all farmers. 



Progress of the Season. 



The May returns to the Bureau of Statistics of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter for May, 

 1905) show the area under winter Avheat in cultivation on 

 May 1 to have been al)out 29,728,000 acres. This is 

 1,432,000 acres, or 4.0 per cent, less than the area sown 

 last fall, and 2,858,000 acres, or 10.6 per cent, more than 

 the area of winter wheat harvested last year. The average 

 condition for that i-emaining under cultivation was 92.5, 

 against 91.6 on April 1 for the entire acreage sown, 7(5.5 on 

 May 1, 1904, and 8.'). 7, the mean of the May averages of 

 the last ten years. 



The average condition of winter rye was 93.5, as compared 

 with* 92.1 on April 1, 81.2 on May 1, l!)04, 5)3.3 the year 



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