Ckop Eepoet for the Month of October, 1903. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 2, 1903. 



Bulletin Xo. G, Crop Report for the month of October, is 

 herewith presented as the final issue of the season. We 

 desire to thank our correspondents for the assistance they 

 have so freely given, making the publication of these bulletins 

 possible, and we shall look to them another year for the 

 same measure of eifective and interested work. 



The special articles printed this year have been : Bulletin 

 No. 1 5 " Fruits for the home garden : varieties and culture," 

 by Prof. F". A. Waugh ; Bulletin No. 2, " Summer manage- 

 ment of the dairy herd," by Prof. ¥. S. Cooley ; Bulletin 

 No. 3, "Bee keeping: its pleasures and profits, '* by Dr. 

 James B. Paige; Bulletin No. 4, "The management of 

 poultry on small farms," by John H. Robinson ; and Bulletin 

 No. 5, "Some important scale insects," by Prof. FI. T. 

 Fernald. Particular attention is called to the article on 

 " The prevention of some fungous diseases attacking green- 

 house cro})S," by Dr. Geo. E. Stone, which is printed at the 

 close of this bulletin. 



Progress of the Season. 



The October returns of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture (Crop Reporter for October, lyOo) show the 

 average condition of corn October 1 to have been ^0.8, as 

 compared with 80.1 a month earlier, 7iK() on Oct. 1, 11)02, 

 52.1 at the corresponding date in lliOl, and a ten-year 

 average of 7 7 . 7 . 



The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of 

 spring wheat is 14.4 bushels, and the average quality was 

 85.5, as compared with 87.7 a year ago. 



The preliminary returns indicate an average yield of 28.4 

 bushels of oats per acre, as compared with 34.5 bushels a 



