week has been intensified, and is now general over the 

 principal agricultural States from the Dakotas, Kansas and 

 Nebraska eastward to the Atlantic coast. 



NEW ENGLAND WEATHER AND CROPS. 

 [From United States Weather-Ckop Bulletins.] 



Week ending August 1. — Temperature and sunshine 

 excessive and precipitation above average, except in East- 

 ern Maine, where severe drought prevails, especially in 

 southern counties, injuring early potatoes, garden truck, 

 pastures, etc. ; potatoes promise well in North but light in 

 South. 



Week ending August 8. — Precipitation about average, 

 except on Cape Cod ; temperature and sunshine normal. 

 Corn and tobacco making great growth ; pears good crop in 

 South ; much damage by hail on 6th in northern part of 

 Sullivan and Merrimack counties, New Hampshire. 



WeeJc ending August 15. — Temperature and precipitation 

 above and sunshine about normal ; severe hail-storm in New 

 Hampshire and Vermont on the 10th did considerable dam- 

 age ; general and unusually heavy rain during the thunder- 

 storm of the 12th; potatoes and cranberries light; corn and 

 tobacco good. 



Week ending August 22. — Precipitation below and tem- 

 perature and sunshine above normal ; severe drought prevails 

 in southern Massachusetts ; corn and tobacco have made 

 heavy growth; horn fly causing sufiering among cattle; 

 much damage to tobacco by hail on 12th at Bethlehem, Conn. 



MASSACHUSETTS CROPS. 



The August Report of the United States Department of 

 Ao;riculture gives the follovvino- for acreage and condition 

 of crops Aug. 1, 1892 : Average condition of corn, 93 ; 

 average condition of oats, 95 ; average condition of barley, 

 96 ; acreage of buckwheat compared with last 3'ear, 98 ; 

 average condition of buckwheat, 95 ; average condition of 

 potatoes, 80; average condition of tobacco, 98; average 

 condition of timothy, 91 ; product of clover com[)ared with 

 a full crop, 94 ; average quality of clover hay, 100 standing 

 for high quality, 98 ; average condition of pasturage, 88 ; 



