Crop Repoet for the Month of September, 1903. 



Office of State Board of Aguioclture, 

 Boston, Mass., Oct. 1, 1902. 



Bulletin jSTo. 5, Crop Report for the month of September, 

 is herewith presented. Attention is called to the article at 

 the close of the l)ulletin on <' Improvement of Pastures," by 

 Prof, J. W. Sanborn, formerly director of the Missouri 

 Agricultural Experiment Station, president of the Utah 

 Agricultural Colleo;e and director of the Utah Agricultural 

 Experiment Station. Professor Sanborn is now engaged in 

 extensive farming operations at Gilmantou, N. H. This 

 article is in a sense supplementary to his article in the July 

 bulletin on "Beef Production in New England," in which 

 he laid down the necessity of improved pastures as one of 

 the essentials to success in beef production on our farms but 

 is also of particular interest to dairy farmers. 



Progress of the Season. 



The September returns of the Statistician of the United 

 States Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter for Sep- 

 tember, 1902) shows the average condition of corn on Sep- 

 tember 1 to have l)cen 84.3, as compared with 8G.5 on 

 August, 1, 51.7 on Sept. 1, 1901, 80.6 at the corrcsi)ond- 

 ing date in 1900, and a ten-year average of 78.8. The 

 crop, however, is so late that throughout the entire northern 

 portion of the belt predictions of more than an average crop 

 are invariably made contingent upon the inmiediate advent 

 and continuance for some days of the most favorable condi- 

 tions of weather. 



The average condition at harvest of winter wheat and 

 spring wheat cpmbined was 80, against 82.8 last year, G9.G 

 in 1900, and a ten-year average of 78.9. 



