CROP REPOET FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1892. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 



Boston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1892. 



Bulletin No. 5, Crop Report for the month of September, 

 is herewith presented. Attention is called to the discon- 

 tinuance, with No. 24, Oct. 4, 1892, of the weekly Crop 

 Reports which have been issued in co-operation with the 

 New England Weather Service. A monthly report will be 

 issued for October, and in connection therewith will be a 

 notice of an intended revision of our mailing list before 

 another season. 



TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY. 

 [From United States Weather-Croi' Bulletins.] 



Week ending August 29. — Week cooler than usual from 

 the Mississippi River westward to the Pacific coast, except 

 along the Gulf coast, in the Rio Grande valley, and from 

 northern California northward. East of the Mississippi it 

 was warmer than usual, except in New England. More 

 than the usual amount of rain has fallen over the greater 

 portion of the country east of the Rocky Mountains. The 

 rains of the past week have to a great extent broken the 

 droughts which prevailed. 



Week ending September 5. — Weather generally cooler 

 than usual. Light frosts occurred in Colorado, Wyoming, 

 South Dakota, northern Nebraska, northern Iowa, Minne- 

 sota, Wisconsin, and in portions of New England, inflicting 

 but slight damage. A killing frost was reported from North 

 Dakota and a black frost from northern Montana. General 

 deficiency in rainfall except in the upper Ohio valley, north 

 of the upper lake region, and in a belt from south-central 

 Texas northward to southern Kansas. 



