CROP REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1892. 



Office State Board of Agkici;lture, 



Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1892. 



Bulletin No. 6, Crop Eeport for the month of October, is 

 herewith presented. This will be the last issue of the 

 season. Our sincere thanks are hereby extended to corres- 

 pondents for the interest they have shown and for the returns 

 they have made from month to month. It is hoped this work 

 will be continued another season. Attention is called to the 

 intended revision of our mailing list, of which notice was 

 given last mouth. 



This number concludes the fifth season since the monthly 

 crop reports were instituted. In all twenty-nine bulletins 

 have been issued, and our mailing list increased from four 

 hundred in June, 1888, to about two thousand at the present 

 time. Particular attention is called to the index at the end 

 of this issue. 



The special subjects treated this season have been as fol- 

 lows : Bulletin No. 1, Farm Help and Wages, Weather 

 Forecasts ; Bulletin No. 2, Frost Warnings ; Bulletin No. 4, 

 The Horn Fly, Report on Cranberries. 



TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL FOR THE WHOLE COUNTRY. 

 [From United States Weather-Crop Bulletin.] 



Week ending October 3.* — Slight but general deficiency 

 in temperature along the Atlantic coast and in the east Gulf 

 States. Over the entire country to the westward of the dis- 

 tricts named the week has been warmer than usual. Frost 

 occurred in the Ohio valley on September 27, in New Eng- 

 land on the 30th, and generally throughout the lower lake 

 region and Middle Atlantic States on October 2 and 3. The 

 temperature for the crop season now closed has been below 



* Discontinued with tbis issue. 



