Crop Eepokt for the Month of July, 1905. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1905. 



Bulletin No. 3, Crop Report for the month of July, is 

 herewith presented. Attention is called to the article on 

 "Bush-fruits," at the close of the bulletin, by Prof. F. S. 

 Card, professor of horticulture at the Rhode Island College 

 of Agi'iculture and Mechanic Arts, and an authority upon 

 the subject. The article deals exhaustively with the propa- 

 gation, selection and management of these fruits, and will 

 be found of interest to almost all readers, if only for a fuller 

 knowledge of their possibilities in the garden. 



Progress of the Season. 



Preliminary returns to the Chief of the Bureau of Statis- 

 tics of the Department of Agriculture show the acreage of 

 corn planted to be about 94,011,000 acres, an increase of 

 about 2,0^<0,000 acres, or 2.3 per cent, on the area planted 

 last year. The average condition of the growing crop on 

 July 1 was 87.3, as compared with SQA on July 1, 1904, 

 79.4 at the corresponding date in 1903, and a ten-year aver- 

 age of 87.6. 



The average condition of winter wheat was 82.7, as com- 

 pared with 85.5 a month earlier, 78.7 in 1904, 78.8 at the 

 corresponding date in 1903, and a ten-year average of 77.8. 

 Tlie average condition of spring wheat was 91, as compared 

 with 93.7 a month earlier, 93.7 in 1904, 82.5 in 1903, and 

 a ten-year average of 89.3. The average condition of spring 

 and winter w^heat combined was 85.8, as compared with 84.5 

 on July 1, 1904, and 80 at the corresponding date in 1903. 

 Tlie amount of wheat remaining in the hands of farmers was 

 estimated to be about 24,257,000 bushels, equivalent to 

 about 4.4 per cent of the crop of last year. 



The average condition of the oat crop on July 1 was 92.1, 

 as compared with 92.9 a month earlier, 89.8 in 1904, 84. S 

 in 1903, and a ten-year average of 88.5. 



