CROP REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 1890. 



Compiled from Returns to the Office of the State Board of 

 Agriculture, Sept. 29, 1890. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 



BosTox, Mass., Oct. 2, 1890. 



Bulletin No. 5, Crop Report for the month of September, 

 is herewith presented. 



In the circular to correspondents the first question asked 

 was^ " Do you consider the crop of Indian corn a full aver- 

 age?" In answer to this question 71 of the correspondents 

 state that they do and 19 that they do not. The season 

 has not been particularly favorable to the growth and 

 development of this crop, but frost holding oif until the 25th 

 of September gave it time to ripen and permitted, in spite of 

 unfavorable weather, the cutting and stooking of the major 

 part of it. 



Notwithstanding the large use of western corn by our 

 farmers, the corn crop of this State is of considerable 

 im[)ortance, for in the annual report of the Department of 

 Agriculture for 1889 it is found that the crop of last year 

 was estimated at 58,209 acres, yielding 1,997,000 bushels, 

 valued at $1,078,147. In 1879 the figures were given as 

 38,500 acres, yielding 1,386,000 bushels, valued at $1,081,- 

 080, and in 1869 as 57,017 acres, yielding 1,950,000 

 bushels, valued at $2,574,000. Here, as also in case of the 

 estimated potato crops, the figures used are only approxi- 

 mately correct, and of course there is more or less variation 

 from year to year from the first date given, 1868, to the 

 present time, but it is thought that these figures will give an 

 idea of the extent and importance of two of our leading crops. 



To the question, " Has the rowen crop turned out to be an 

 average one ? " 44 of the correspondents state that it has 

 and 49 that it has not. 



