Crop Kepout for the Month of September, 1905. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Oct. 2, 1905. 



Bulletin No. 5, Crop Report for the month of September, 

 is herewith presented. The reader's attention is called to 

 the article at the close of the bulletin, on " Commercial pork 

 making and pig raising in New England," by A. A. South- 

 wick, farm superintendent of the State Insane Asylum at 

 Taunton, Mass. Mr. Southwick is an enthusiastic believer 

 in that much-abused animal, the domestic hog, and has 

 demonstrated by an experience of many years that there is 

 no more profitable branch of farm industry in New England 

 than the production and growing of swine. In this article 

 the suggestions that he has to offer to those engaged in pig 

 raising, or contemplating taking up the business, are put in 

 a terse but comprehensive and attractive manner. 



Progress of the Season. 



The monthly report of the Crop Estimating Board of the 

 Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture (Crop 

 Reporter for September, 1905) shows the condition of corn 

 on September 1 to have been 89.5, as compared with <S9 a 

 month earlier, 84.6 on Sept. 1, 1904, 80.1 at the correspond- 

 ing date in 1903, and a ten-year average of 81.7. 



The average condition of spring wheat when harvested 

 was 87.3, the only comi)arison possible, as this is the second 

 year spring wheat has been separately reported, being with 

 the condition a month earlier, which was 89.2, and with that 

 in 1904, which was 66.2. The condition in the five prin- 

 cipal States Avas reported as follows : Minnesota, 84 ; North 

 Dakota, 89; South Dakota, 89 ; Iowa, 91; and Washing- 

 ton, 91. 



The average condition of the oat crop when harvested was 

 90.3, against 90.8 August 1, 85.6 on Sept. 1, 1904, 75.7 



