Ceop Eeport for the Month of October, i894. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 



Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1894. 



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

 herewith presented as the final issue of this season. Our 

 sincere thanks are extended to correspondents and others 

 who have helped us from month to month. If nothing un- 

 foreseen happens, the work will be resumed next spring. 

 The special articles printed this season have been as follows : 

 Bulletin No. 1, "Report on farm animals," "Communica- 

 tion to fruit growers, dealers and consumers ; " Bulletin No. 

 2, "Tuberculosis and its eradication;" Bulletin No. 3, 

 "The diagnosis and eradication of tuberculosis ; " Bulletin 

 No. 4, " Retrospect and prospect of the fruit crop of 1894," 

 "Statistics of Massachusetts agriculture;" Bulletin No. 5, 

 " The regulative influence exerted by birds on the increase 

 of insect pests ; " Bulletin No. 6, " Household insects." 



Progress of the Season. 



In Report No. 120 (October, 1894) the Statistician of the 

 United States Department of Agriculture gives the October 

 condition of corn as 64.2, against 63.4 in September. In 

 most of the Southern States the condition has fallen, but in 

 some of the Western States there have been slight gains 

 in condition. 



The returns of yield per acre of wheat indicate a produc- 

 tion of about 13.1 bushels, being 1.8 bushels greater than 

 last year's preliminary estimate. The indicated quality for 

 the country is 93.5. 



The average yield of oats was 24.5 bushels, against 23.5 

 in 1893 and 24.3 in 1892. The returns in States having 

 over 1,000,000 acres each ranged from 17.9 bushels in Kan- 

 sas to 32.3 in Indiana. In the same States the quality 

 ranged from 70 in Nebraska to 98 in Iowa, the general aver- 

 age for the whole country being 90.5. 



