Crop Eeport foe the Month of June, 1902. 



Office of State Board of Aorioilture, 

 Boston, Mass., July 1, 1902. 



Bulletin No. 2, Crop Report for the month of June, is 

 herewith presented. Owing to the great call for informa- 

 tion in regard to scale insects, and our supply of the 

 Bulletin for May, li)01, having become exhausted, we have 

 thought it best to reprint the article on ''Three common 

 orchard scales," by Henry T. Fernald, Ph.D., professor of 

 entomology at the Massachusetts Agricultural College, 

 which appeared in that bulletin, and which will be found 

 printed at the close of this one. We regret to disappoint 

 such of our readers as may have been looking for a fresh 

 article on some timely phase of the farming industry, and 

 shall endeavor to meet their desires in our future issues. 



Progress of the Season. 



Preliminary reports to the United States Departnient of 

 Agriculture (Crop Reporter for June, 1901) indicate a re- 

 duction of about 2,511,000 acres, or 12.8 per cent, in the 

 acreage of spring wheat. The average condition of spring 

 wheat on June 1 was 95.4, as compared with 92 last year, 

 87.3 in 1900, and a ten-year average of 92.6, the present 

 reported average condition having been exceeded only three 

 times in the last fifteen years. The average condition of 

 winter wheat was 76.1, as compared with 76.4 on May 1, 

 87.8 on June 1 of last year, 82.7 in 1900, and 80.3, the 

 mean of the June averages of the last ten years. 



The total reported acreage of oats is about four-tenths of 

 1 per cent in excess of the acreage harvested last year. 

 The average condition of oats was 90.6, against 85.3 on the 

 corresponding date last year, 91.7 in 1900, and a ten-year 

 average of 90. 



The acreage reported as under barley exceeds the acreage 

 harvested last year by 8.5 per cent. The average condition 



