those fruits from almost every important State indicated that 

 more th:in an average crop of each will be harvested. The 

 condition of grapes was very good, and it is quite probable 

 that the crop will be as large as that of any ordinarily good 

 year. 



The average condition of cotton on June 25 was 84.7, as 

 compared with 95.1 on May 26 of this year, 81.1 on June 25 

 of last year, 75.8 on July 1, 1900, and a ten-year average 

 of 85.6. 



In ^lassachusetts the acreage of corn as compared with 

 last year was 107, and the average condition July 1, S2 ; the 

 average condition of oats, 98 ; the average condition of win- 

 ter rye, 95 ; the average condition of spring rye, 100 ; the 

 acreage of potatoes, 104, and the average condition, 100; 

 the acreage of tobacco, 106, and the average condition, 88; 

 the average condition of clover, 94 ; the average condition 

 of timothy, 91 ; the average condition of pastures, 93 ; the 

 average condition of apples, 90 ; the average condition of 

 peaches, 86 ; and the average condition of grapes, 86. 



Temperature and Rainfall for the Whole Country. 



[From United States Climate and Crop Bdlletins.] 



Week ending June 30. — The week was decidedly cool in 

 the districts from the Missouri valley to the New England 

 coast, and averaged slightly cooler than usual over the west- 

 ern portion of the Plateau regions and generally throughout 

 the northern Rocky Mountain districts. Along the Pacific 

 coast and generally throughout the southern portions of the 

 country the week was warmer than usual. The week was 

 rainless over the greater part of the central and east Gulf dis- 

 tricts, and in extreme western Texas, and only light showers 

 occurred in the western part of the upper Lake region and 

 the Red River valley. Generally throughout the central 

 valleys. Lake region, New England and the Middle Atlantic 

 States and from the lower Mi.ssouri valley southward to the 

 Gulf coast the weekly rainfall largely exceeded the average, 

 and in some districts was phenomenally heavy. 



Week ending July 7. — The week averaged warmer than 

 usual in the Southern States, in the lower Missouri, central 

 Mississippi, Ohio and Red River valleys, over the greater 



