Crop Eepoet for the Month of August, 1912. 



Office of State Board of Ageicultube, 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 3, 1912. 



Eeturns contained in tHs issue, the August number of tlie 

 Crop Eeport, indicate the great benefits of the frequent and 

 abundant rains since July 21, to both farm crops, meadows 

 and pastures, and to fruits of all kinds as well. Those in- 

 terested in poultry will find in the article on Ducks and 

 Geese, by John H. Robinson, some very valuable material on 

 a little exploited topic by a well known and reliable authority. 

 The exorbitant prices of beef and kindred meat foods at the 

 present time have a tendency toward the elimination, so far 

 as possible, from the diet of the average city dweller, of such 

 foods. Eight here is an opportunity to supply a home de- 

 mand with a home product, and those who have the facilities 

 for the production of domesticated wild fowl can meet the 

 opportunity, not only to their own profit, but to the benefit 

 of the residents of Massachusetts. 



Peogkess of the Season. 

 The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the United States Departmeiit of Agriculture estimates, from 

 the reports of the correspondents and agents of the bureau, 

 as follows for the United States : — 



' Nine-year average. ' Four-year average. 



' Hay figures of the bureau have been revised to conform to the census classification and 

 basis; changes are due mostly to the inclusion of grains cut green for hay, not included in 

 the bureau's previous basis of estimations. 



