Crop Report for the Month of July, i894. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 



Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1894. 



Bulletin No. 3, Crop Report for the month of July, is 

 herewith presented. Particular attention is called to the 

 second and concluding part of the article on Tuberculosis 

 and its Eradication, by the Veterinarian of this Board, which 

 is printed at the end of this bulletin. 



Progress of the Season. 



Report No. 117 (July, 1893) of the Statistician of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture states that the 

 preliminary returns of the acreage of corn show 106 per 

 cent, as compared with the acreage of 1893. This is an 

 increase in round numbers of 4,000,000 acres. The increase 

 is mainly in the States of largest production, Kansas having 

 110 per cent and Nebraska 118. The average condition of 

 corn is 95, against 93.2 last July, being the highest condition 

 since 1887. 



The condition of winter wheat is 83.9 against 83.2 in 

 June, and 77.7 in July, 1893. Spring wheat shows a con- 

 dition of 68.4 against 88 in June, and 74.1 in July, a fall 

 since the last report of nearly 20 points. The average con- 

 dition of both spring and winter wheat, or all wheat, for the 

 country is 79.3 per cent. 



The condition of oats shows a decline from 87 in June to 

 77.7, against 88.8 at this date last year. In New Hamp- 

 shire, Massachusetts and Maine the condition is satisfactory 

 and most of the States bordering on the Great Lakes show a 

 condition of 90 or above. In South Dakota the condition is 

 35 and in Kansas and Nebraska, 51. The crop was injured 

 in many localities by spring frosts, and the injuries from 



