Preliminary estimates of production have been made as 

 follows : — 



The quality of spring wheat is 88.7 per cent, compared 

 with a ten-year average of 86.8; oats, 91 per cent, compared 

 with a ten-year average of 86.7; barley, 86.2 per cent, com- 

 pared with a ten-year average of 87.1. 



In Massachusetts the average condition of corn October 1 

 was 90 ; the yield per acre of oats, 34 bushels, the production, 

 272,000 bushels, and the quality, 89 ; the condition of buck- 

 wheat was 92 ; of potatoes, 85 ; of tobacco, 93 ; of apples, 76 ; 

 of grapes, 88; of pears, 65; of cranberries, 77; the yield per 

 acre of cabbage, 7 tons ; of onions, 340 bushels ; the produc- 

 tion of tomatoes, compared with a full crop, was 89 ; of cab- 

 bages, 91 ; of onions, 91 ; of beans, dry, 89 ; of Lima beans, 

 83 ; of millet for hay, 90 ; of millet for seed, 75 ; of Canadian 

 peas for forage, 85. Estimates of acreage and production 

 are preliminary and subject to modification later. 



Massachusetts Weather, 1912. 



[Furnished by Weather Bureau, Boston.] 



January: The month was unusually cold, with precipita- 

 tion generally below the normal. The monthly mean temper- 

 ature in the several sections of the State ranged from 5° to 8° 

 below the normal for the month. The unusually low mean 

 was, however, due to uniformly cold weather throughout the 

 month, rather than to any extremely low range of the mer- 



