' Interpreted from condition reports. 

 2 Based on average for 1905-09. 



3 Based on average for 1908-10. 



General Review of Crop Conditions July 1. 



[From the Crop Reporter of the United States Department of Agri- 

 culture FOR July.] 



Crop conditions in general on July 1 averaged for the 

 United States materially better (5.9 per cent) than on same 

 date last year, but somewhat lower (1.2 per cent) than the 

 average condition of recent years. The month of June was 

 slightly less favorable for crops than the average June, but 

 much more favorable than June of last year. 



The aggregate area of the important crops — corn, wheat, 

 oats, barley, potatoes, tobacco, flax, rice and cotton — in 

 1912, according to preliminary estimates, is 241,155,000 

 acres, which is 1.8 per cent less than the estimated area of 

 the same crops in 1911, but 1.9 per cent greater than in 1910 

 and 6.9 per cent greater than in 1909. 



The condition of the various crops on July 1, compared 

 with their average condition (not normal) on July 1 of 

 recent years, was as follows : — 



