Average Condition of Specified Crops, United States. 



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

 culture FOR September.] 



The vicissitudes of the season of 1912 are reflected in the 

 following statement of the condition of important crops on 

 the first of each month, from June to September, expressed 

 in comparison with average conditions (100 representing the 

 average condition, not the normal) : — 



Temperature and Rainfall for the Whole Country. 



[From the United States National Weekly Weather Bulletin.] 



Week ending September 2. — At the beginning of the 

 week the temperature was high over nearly all districts from 

 the Mississippi valley eastward. With the advance of the 

 week the cool weather moved eastward over the Lake region, 

 Ohio valley, Middle Atlantic States and New England, and 

 it continued cool until after the middle of the week in those 

 districts, the coldest August weather in many years being 

 reported from northern ISTew York and portions of N^ew Eng- 

 land at the morning observations of Friday and Saturday. 

 For the week as a whole the mean temperatures continued 

 above the normal, as in the previous week, in all districts to 



