CEOP KEPOKT FOK THE MONTH OF MAY; 1890, ' 



Retukned to the Office of the State Boakd of Agriculture, 



June 1, 1890. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 



Boston, Mass., June 3, 1890. 



General Remarks. 



We herewith present the first bulletin of the series of crop 

 reports for the season of 1890. The make-up of the circular 

 sent to our correspondents for this bulletin diflered some- 

 what from the one used last season. One side was used for 

 general instructions to correspondents, and on the other 

 several questions were asked and a blank space was left for 

 genera-1 remarks. The number of our correspondents has 

 been increased to about one hundred and twenty-five, and 

 the State is thoroughly covered thereby. Arrangements have 

 also been made so that this season we shall be able to give 

 each month about two pages to material relating to the 

 weather. The system of distribution adopted by us last 

 season has also been changed, and this year we shall mail the 

 bulletins directly to such individuals as request the same. 

 Our mailing list already contains some sixteen hundred names, 

 and we shall be glad to add to this list the names of such 

 parties as make application for the bulletins. 



It was our intention to present in this bulletin statistics 

 relative to the culture of lettuce and cucumbers under glass, 

 and quite a quantity of material has been collected for this 

 purpose, but having found these industries more extensive 

 than we expected, we think we had better take more time, 

 that what we present may be as comprehensive and as accu- 

 rate as possible. We shall therefore hold the material for 



