Chop Eeport for the Mokth of July, 1906. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Aug. 1, 1906. 



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

 presented herewith. Attention is called to the article on 

 "Clovers: their Value, Characteristics of Varieties and 

 Methods of production," at the close of the bulletin, by 

 Prof. Wm. P. Brooks, professor of agriculture at the Mas- 

 sachusetts Ao-ricultural Collecre and director of the Hatch 

 Experiment Station. Not enough attention is paid to the 

 growth of the various varieties of clover by our farmers, and 

 this article cannot l)ut be of assistance to any one engaged 

 in dairying. A greater production of these useful plants 

 would result in a decreased grain bill in ever}' case where 

 they were fed with a knowledge of their proper value in the 

 ration of the dairy cow. 



Progress of the Season. 



The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter for July, 

 1906) finds that the preliminary returns show the acreage 

 of corn planted to be about 95,535,000 acres, an increase 

 of about 1,524,000 acres, or l.G per cent, as compared with 

 the estimate of the acreage planted last year. The average 

 condition of the growing crop July 1 was 87.5, as compared 

 with 87.3 on July 1, 1905, 80.4 at the corresponding date 

 in 1904, and a ten-year average of 8(3.4. 



The average condition of winter wheat July 1 was 85.6, 

 as compared with 83 a month earlier, 82.7 on -luly 1, 1905, 

 78.7 in 1904, and a ten-year average of 79.1. 



The average condition of spring wheat on July 1 was 91.4, 

 as compared with 93 a month earlier, 91 on July 1, 1905, 

 93.7 in 1904, and a ten-year average of 88.2. The average 



