Crop Eeport foe the Month of Octobee, 1906. 



Office of State Board of Agricultueb, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1906. 



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

 presented as the final issue of the season. We wish to thank 

 our correspondents for their faithful assistance, which has 

 been given freely and without reward, save for the sense 

 of duty done. We trust that they will all be in a position 

 to give us the same help when another growing season shall 

 have reached us. 



The special articles printed this year have been : Bulletin 

 No. 1, " The home garden," by Prof. F. W. Kane ; Bulle- 

 tin No. 2, " Some causes affecting the profits of dairying," 

 by Prof. F. S. Cooley; Bulletin No. 3, "Clovers; their 

 value, characteristics of varieties and methods of produc- 

 tion," by Prof. Wm. P. Brooks; Bulletin No. 4, "Some 

 practical phases of poultry feeding," by John 11. Robinson; 

 and Bulletin JSTo. 5, " Cranberry culture," by Lucian .T. 

 Fosdick. We have a limited number of Bulletins 2, 4 and .5 

 on hand, which we shall be glad to send to any one desiring 

 them. The supply of Bulletins Nos. 1 and 3 is entirely ex- 

 hausted, but we shall reprint the articles on the home garden 

 and on clovers later, and any requests for the same will be 

 placed on file and filled as soon as possible. 



Particular attention is called to the article at the close 

 of this bulletin, on " Peach culture," by Prof. F. A. Waugh, 

 professor of horticulture at the Massachusetts Agricultural 

 College. It was originally intended to have an article on 

 stone fruits in this bulletin, but Professor Waugh felt that 

 there was enough interest in peach gromng and enough 

 subject-matter to make it the basis for a separate article. 

 Professor AVaugh has given this subject a great deal of 

 attention during his residence in New England, and is cer- 

 tainly a well-recognized authority upon all matters of horti- 

 culture. 



