Crop Eeport for the Month of October, 1902. 



Office of State Board of Aorioultuhb, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1902. 



Bulletin No. 6, Croj) Rei)ort for the month of October, 

 is herewith presented as the final issue of the season. We 

 wish to thank our correspondents for the assistance that has 

 made the issuing of these bulletins possible, and we shall look 

 to them when another ofrowins: season comes for the same 

 measure of etfective and interested work. 



The special articles printed this year have been : Bulletin 

 No. 1, "Cucumber throwing in Massachusetts," by Dr. 

 George E. Stone; Bulletin No. 2, "Three common orchard 

 scales," by Prof. H. T. Fernald (reprinted from Crop Report 

 for May, 1901) ; Bulletin No. 3, " Beef production in New 

 England," by Prof. eT. W. Sanborn ; Bulletin No. 4, " Some 

 inexpensive ways of making farm poultry more profitable," 

 by John H. Robinson ; and Bulletin No. 5, "Improvement of 

 pastures," by Prof. J. W. San])orn. Particular attention is 

 called to the bulletin article on "Greenhouse construction 

 and management," by Prof. S. T. Maynard, formerly pro- 

 fessor of horticulture at the Massachusetts Agricultural Col- 

 lege, which will 1)0 found printed at the close of this bulletin. 



Progress of the Season. 



The October report of the statistician of the United States 

 Department of Agriculture (Crop Report for October, 1901) 

 shows the average condition of corn on October 1 to have 

 been 79. G, as compared with 84.3 a month previous, 52.1 

 on Oct. 1, 1901, 78.2 at the corresponding date in 1900, 

 and 77.7, the mean of the October averages of the last ten 

 years. 



The preliminary estimate of the average yield per acre of 

 spring wheat was 14.4 bushels, and the average quality was 

 87.7." 



