The acreage reported under barley is less than that finally 

 estimated as sown last year by about 171,000 acres, or 2.7 

 per cent. The average condition of barley was 84.9, against 

 93.5 on June 1, 1906, 93.6 in 1905, and 90.2 the mean of 

 the corresponding averages of the last ten years. 



The total area estimated to be planted to cotton is 11,000 

 acres greater than that found to have been planted last year. 

 The average condition of the growing crop May 25 was 70.5, 

 as compared with 84.6 per cent and 77.2 per cent at the 

 corresponding dates in 1906 and 1905, respectively, and a 

 ten-year average of 83.6 per cent. 



In Massachusetts the acreage of oats compared with that 

 sown last year was given as 100, and the average condition 

 June 1 as 95 ; the average condition of winter rye as 88 ; 

 the acreage of clover as 100, and the average condition as 

 92 ; the average condition of spring pasture as 90 ; the aver- 

 age condition of apples as 86 ; the average condition of 

 peaches as 50 ; the average condition of blackberries as 85 ; 

 the average condition of raspberries as 85 ; the average con- 

 dition of cantaloupes as 87 ; the average condition of aspara- 

 gus as 80 ; the average condition of cabbages as 85 ; the 

 average condition of onions as 90. 



Tempekatuee and Eainfall for the Whole Coui^try, 



[From National Weekly Weather Bulletin.] 



Weeh ending June 3. — On the Pacific coast and over 

 western portions of the middle and northern Plateau regionti 

 the week was warmer than usual. In the Rocky Mountain 

 region and all districts to the eastward, with the exception 

 of the western portion of the Florida peninsula, the week 

 was colder than usual, the deficiency in temperature ranging 

 from 6° to more than 12° per day. The rainfall was in 

 excess of the average on the Atlantic coast from southern 

 ISTew England to the Carolinas, in the Ohio and central 

 Mississippi valleys, over the northern portion of the East 

 Gulf States, and from the lower Mississippi River westward 

 to central Arizona. There was less than the usual rainfall 

 over a large part of the interior of the east Gulf States, in 

 northern iN'ew England, the lower Lake region, upper Ohio 



