Crop Eeport for the Month of June, 1906. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., July 2, 1906. 



Bulletin No. 2, Crop Report for the month of June, is 

 herewith presented. At the close of this bulletin is an 

 article on " Some Causes aliecting Dairy Profits," by Prof. 

 C. S. Cooley, professor of Animal Husbandry and Dairying 

 at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. This article 

 contains a great deal of valuable matter which should inter- 

 est every owner of dairy cows, regardless of the line of 

 dairying of which he makes a specialty, and we trust that it 

 will receive the careful attention on the part of our readers 

 which its merit deserves. 



Progress of the Season. 



Preliminary returns to the Crop Reporting Board of the 

 Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture (Crop 

 Reporter for June, IDOl)) on the acreage of spring wheat 

 sown, indicate an area of 17,9<S<),000 acres, an increase of 

 38,000 acres, or .2 per cent, as com})ared with the estimate 

 of the acreage sown last year. The average condition of 

 spring wheat on June 1 was 1)H, as compared with 94 last 

 year, 93 on June 1, 1904, and a ten-year average of 94. 

 The average condition of winter wheat on June 1 was 83, as 

 compared with 91 on May 1, 190(i, 8(-) on ,Iune 1, 190o, 78 

 on June 1, 1904, and a ten-^-ear average of SI. 



The total reported area in oats Avas about 27,1)78,000 

 acres, a decrease of 3(!8,()00 acres, or 1.3 per cent, as com- 

 pared with the estimated area sown last year. The average 

 condition of outs on June 1 was 8(i, against 93 on June 1, 

 190.5, <si) in 1904, and a ten-year average of 91. 



The acreage reported as under barley is more than that 

 estimated as sown last year by about 13;),()00 acres, or 2.7 



