Crop Eepoet for the Month of August, 1905. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 1, 1905. 



Bulletin No. 5, Crop Report for the month of August, is 

 presented herewith. Attention is called to the article at the 

 close of the bulletin, on "Practical poultry housing," by 

 John H. Robinson, editor of " Farm-Poultry." This article 

 discusses an important question in poultry management in an 

 instructive manner, and is even more applicable to conditions 

 on the farm than to those of exclusive poultry plants. It is 

 supplementary to the articles by Mr. Robinson which have 

 appeared in the August crop reports for several years past, 

 but is also complete in itself. 



Progeess of the Season. ■ 



The Crop Estimating Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter for August, 

 1905) finds that the condition of corn on August 1 was 89! 

 as compared with 87.3 a month earlier, 87.3°in 1904, 78.7 

 in 1903, and a ten-year average of 85.4. 



Preliminary returns indicate a winter wheat crop of about 

 424,400,000 bushels, or an average of 14.3 bushels per acre 

 as compared with 12.4 bushels last year, as finally estimated.' 



The average condition of spring wheat was 89.2, as com- 

 pared with 91 last month, 87.5 in 1904, 77.1 in 1903, and a 

 ten -year average of 83.3. 



The average condition of the oat crop was 90.8, as com- 

 pared with 92.1 last month, S{L6 on Aug. 1, 1904, 79.5 in 

 1903, and a ten-year August average of 83.7. The propor- 

 tion of the oat crop still in the hands of the farmers was 

 estimated at 6.2 per cent, as compared with 5.4 of the 

 1903 crop in farmers' hands a year ago, 7.4 of the crop of 

 1902 in farmers' hands two years ago, and a ten-year aver- 

 age of 7.2 per cent. 



The average condition of barley was 89.5, against 91.5 a 



