Crop Eeport for the Month of May, 1902. 



Office of State Board of Aghicultuhe, 

 Boston, Mass., June 2, 1902. 



Bulletin Xo. 1, Crop Report for the month of May, our 

 first monthly crop bulletin for the current seasOn, is here- 

 with presented. While there will be no radical changes in 

 the method and scope of these bulletins, we shall endeavor 

 to make such improvements in their general form and sub- 

 ject matter as may seem practicalile, and shall welcome any 

 suggestions to that end from our readers. An article on 

 some timely subject by some writer of acknowledged au- 

 thority in agricultural matters will be included in each issue, 

 as heretofore. This bulletin contains an article on " Cucum- 

 ber growing in Massachusetts," by George E. Stone, Ph.D., 

 professor of botany at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, to which we would respectfully call the attention of 

 our readers. 



Progress of the Season. 



The May returns of the United States Department of 

 Agriculture (Crop Reporter for May, 1902) show the area 

 under winter wheat in cultivation on May 1 to have been 

 about 27,103,000 acres. Thi.s is 4,868,000 acres, or 15.2 

 per cent, less than the area sown last fall. F^or the area re- 

 maining under cultivation the average condition was 8;J.4, 

 as compared with 85.4 on May 1 of last year, 88.1) in 1900, 

 and 83.2, the mean of the averages of the last ten years. 



The average condition of winter rye on May 1 was 83.4, 

 as compared with 85.4 on April 1, 94.6 on May 1 of last 

 year, 88.5 in 1900, and 89, the mean of the May averages ot 

 the last ten years. 



The average condition of meadow mowing lands was 86.6, 

 against 92.8 on May 1 of last year, 90.8 in 1900, and 90.6, 

 the mean of the May averages of the last ten years. 



The average condition of spring pastures was 84.9, against 



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