Crop Eeport for the Month of August. 1906. 



Office of State Board of Agriculture, 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 1, 1906. 



Bulletin No. 4, Crop Report for the month of August, is 

 herewith presented. Attention is called to the article at 

 the close of the bulletin, on "Some Practical Phases of 

 Poultry Feeding," by John H. Robinson, editor of "Farm 

 Poultry." Mr. Robinson's previous articles in the crop re- 

 ports of other years have excited a great deal of interest 

 among farmers and poultry raisers, and more particularly 

 among formers who keep some poultry, but do not make 

 it a specialt}^ both in this and other States ; and this article 

 will be found to be equally helpful with those which have 

 preceded it. 



Progress of the Seasox. 



1'he Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Agriculture 

 (Crop Reporter for August, 1906) reports the condition of 

 corn on August 1 as 88.1, as compared wdth 87.5 a month 

 earlier. 89 on Aug. 1, 1905, 87.3 in 1904, and a ten-year 

 average of 84. 



Preliminary returns indicate a winter wheat crop of 493,- 

 434,000 bushels, or an average of 16.7 bushels per acre, as 

 compared with 14.3 bushels last year, as finally estimated. 

 The average condition of spring wheat on August 1 was 

 86.9, as compared with 91.4 a month earlier, 89.2 on Aug. 

 1, 1905, 87.5 in 1904, and a ten-year average of 82.6. 



The average condition of the oat crop on August 1 was 

 82.8, as compared with 84 a month earlier, 90.8 on Aug. 1, 

 1905, 86.6 in 1904, and a ten-year August average of 84.3. 



The average condition of barley on August 1 was 90.3, 

 against 92.5 a month earlier, 89.5 on Aug. 1, 1905, 89.1 

 in 1904, and a ten-year average of 85.3. 



