Crop Eeport for the Mo.nth of Mat. 1907. 



Office of State Board of Agricultuee, 

 Boston", Mass., June 1, 1907. 



The first montlily crop bulletin of the year is presented 

 herewith. These bulletins will be issued through the coming 

 season until Xovember 1, and will, as in former years, con- 

 tain information in regard to crop and climatic conditions, 

 both in Massachusetts and the country at large, with se- 

 lected reports of correspondents, and a special article on some 

 subject of timely interest in each bulletin. The article for 

 the present issue is on " Corn as a Grain Crop in Massa- 

 chusetts," by Prof. Wm. P. Brooks, director of the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Experiment Station. It is hoped that 

 this article may awaken more interest in this splendid grain 

 crop, and convince some of our farmers of its importance 

 in any practical rotation for Xew England farms. 



Peogress of the Seaso:^. 



The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the United States Department of Agriculture (Crop Eeporter 

 for May, 1907) finds the area under winter wheat remaining 

 in cultivation May 1 to have been about 28,132,000 acres, 

 11 per cent less than the area sown last fall, and 5 per cent 

 less than the area harvested last year. The average condi- 

 tion of the growing winter-wheat crop on May 1 was 82.9, 

 as compared with 89.9 a month earlier, 90.9 on May 1, 

 1906, 92.5 in 1905, and 85.5, the mean of the May aver- 

 ages of the last ten years. 



The average condition of winter rye on May 1 was 88, as 

 compared with 92 on April 1, 89.9 on May 1, 1906, 93.5 in 

 1905, and 89.5, the mean of the May averages of the last 

 ten years. S4^^>5 



