of the growing crop on May 26 was 74,1, as compared with 

 95.1 on May 26, 1902, 81.5 on May 20, 1901, and a ten- 

 year average of 8G.9. The condition reported for the cotton 

 belt as a whole and for the States of Georgia, Alabama and 

 Texas in particular, was the lowest ever reported at that sea- 

 son of the year. The crop was almost everywhere from ten 

 to twenty-one da3^s late. 



In Massachusetts the acreage of oats compared with that 

 harvested last year, was given as 105, and the average con- 

 dition June 1 as 73 ; the acreage of rj^e as 98, and the con- 

 dition as 85 ; the acreage of clover as 96, and the condition 

 as 78 ; the average condition of spring pasture as 70 ; the 

 average condition of apples as 68 ; and the average condition 

 of peaches as 30. 



Temperature and Rainfall for the Whole Country. 



[From United States Climate and Crop Bulletins.] 



Week ending June 1. — The week was slightly cooler 

 than usual along the immediate California and Washington 

 coasts, in the southern Rocky Mountain region, west Gulf 

 States, central Missouri and upper Mississippi valleys, north- 

 ern portion of the upper Lake region, and over portions of 

 New England and the Middle Atlantic States. The week 

 averaged warmer than usual in the South Atlantic and east 

 Gulf States, Ohio valley, and over portions of the lower 

 Lake region, also over the northern Rocky Mountain region 

 and the north Pacitic coast. Freezing temperatures occurred 

 in the central Rocky Mountain region and in northern New 

 England. The week was marked by exceptionally heavy 

 rains in the States of the lower Missouri, central and upper 

 Mississippi and lower Ohio valleys, and in the northern por- 

 tions of the Gulf States, while there was more than the 

 average over a large part of the ^Middle Atlantic States and 

 Lake region. There was less than the average rainfall in 

 New England, northern portions of the ^Middle Atlantic 

 States, and generally along the south Atlantic and Gulf 

 coasts and the Pacific coast. 



Week endin/f June 8. — The week was warmer than the 

 average throughout the Pacific coast and Plateau regions 



