The average condition of barle}^ was 91.5, against 93.6 last 

 year, 91 in 1901, and a ten-year average of 88.5. 



The acreage under rye shows a redaction of 3.(5 per cent 

 from that harvested last year. The average condition of rye 

 was 90.6, against 88.1 last year, 91 in 1901, and 89, the 

 mean of the corresponding averages for the last ten years. 

 The acreage of clover for the country as a whole cannot 

 be satisfactorily determined, but all the principal clover 

 States except Wisconsin report decreases in acreage. The 

 condition of clover exceeds the ten-year average in Iowa, 

 Illinois, Missouri, Kansas and Wisconsin, while New York, 

 Pennsylvania and Ohio show conditions below their ten-year 

 averages. 



Of the 14 States having 5,000,000 apple trees and up- 

 wards, but 2, Virginia and Tennessee, report conditions 

 above their ten-3'ear averages, the conditions in other im- 

 portant apple-producing States ranging from 2 points below 

 that average in North Carolina to 23 points below in West 

 Virginia. 



The prospects for the peach crop were decidedly unfavor- 

 able, Oklahoma alone among the important peach-growing 

 States showing a condition above the ten-year average. In 

 the remaining States having 3,000,000 peach trees or up- 

 wards, conditions range from 1 per cent below the ten-j^ear 

 average in California to 43 per cent below in Arkansas. 



The acreage devoted to rice has been reduced in all the 

 principal rice-producing States, the principal decrease being 

 14 per cent, in Mississippi. The condition of rice is below 

 the nine-year average in all rice-producing States except 

 Alabama, Louisiana and Texas, where conditions are 1, 1, 

 and 4 per cent above their nine-year averages respectively. 



There was an improvement in the condition of spring- 

 pastures during Ma}^ in Iowa, Missouri, Michigan, Kansas 

 and Wisconsin. New York, Penns^dvania and Ohio showed 

 conditions considerably lower than the month before, while 

 the condition in Illinois declined a single point. 



The total area planted in cotton is estimated at 28,907,- 

 000 acres, an increase of 1,029,000 acres, or 3.7 per cent, 

 upon the acreage planted last year. The average condition 



