Crop Eepokt for the Month of October, 1905. 



Offick of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1905. 



Bulletin No. 6, Crop Report for the month of October, is 

 presented as the iinal issue of the season. We wish to thank 

 our correspondents for their free and faithful assistance, 

 through which we have been able to publish these reports, 

 and trust that they will be able to serve us in the same 

 capacity when the next spring shall be with us. 



The special articles printed this year have been : Bulletin 

 No. 1, "The management of mowings,'' by Prof. Wm. P. 

 Brooks ; Bulletin No. 2, " How to supplement a short hay 

 crop," by Prof. Charles S. Phelps ; Bulletin No. 3, "Bush- 

 fruits," by Prof. F. S. Card; Bulletin No. 4, "Practical 

 poultry housing," by John H. Robinson; Bulletin No. 5, 

 " Commercial pork making and pig raising in New Eng- 

 land," by A. A. Southwick. We have a limited number of 

 Bulletins No. 1,2,4 and 5 on hand, which we shall be glad 

 to send to any desiring them. The supply of Bulletin No. 

 3 is entirely exhausted, but we shall have a reprint of the 

 article on bush-fruits later on, and any requests for the same 

 will be placed on tile and filled as soon as possible. 



Particular attention is called to the article at the close of 

 this bulletin, entitled "Clean milk: some suggestions for 

 the average producer," by P. M. Harwood, general agent 

 of the State Dairy Bureau. Mr. Harwood is in a particularly 

 good position to make suggestions on this subject, as he is 

 able to look at it from more than one standpoint, having 

 himself been a milk producer for the Boston market, and 

 having visited, in his work for the Dair}^ Bureau, a great 

 many dairies, and investigated present conditions, both of 

 production and consumption. 



