Crop Eeport for the Month of August, 1907. 



Office of State Board op Aoricultuhe, 

 Boston, Mass., Sept. 11, 1907. 



Bulletin Xo. 4, Crop Report for the month of August, is 

 herewith presented. Attention is called to the article on 

 " Bee Keeping : Some Suggestions for its Advancement in 

 Massachusetts," by Burton ]S[. Gates, expert on agriculture 

 of the United States Department of Agriculture. The article 

 is in a sense supplementary to that by the same author, on 

 the same subject, issued in 1905, and contains many valuable 

 suggestions for the guidance of those interested in the bee 

 and honey making. 



Peogress of the Season. 



The Crop Reporting Board of the Bureau of Statistics of 

 the Department of Agriculture (Crop Reporter for August, 

 1907) finds the condition of corn on August 1 to have been 

 82.8, as compared with 80.9 a month earlier, 88 in 1906, 

 89 in 1905, and a ten-year average of 83.2, 



Preliminary returns indicate the winter wheat crop to be 

 about 409,500,000 bushels, or an average of 14.6 bushels 

 per acre, as compared with 16.7 bushels last year, as finally 

 estimated. The average quality of winter wheat is 90.5. 

 The average condition of spring wheat August 1 was 79.4, 

 as compared with 87.2 a month earlier, 86.9 in 1906, 89.2 

 in 1905, and a ten-year average of 83.4. 



The average condition of the oat crop on August 1 was 

 75.6, as compared with 81 a month earlier, 82.8 in 1906, 

 90.8 in 1905 and a ten-year average of 84.9. 



The average condition of barley on August 1 was 84.5, 

 against 84.4 a month earlier, 90.3 in 1906, 89.5 in 1905, 

 and a ten-year average of 86. 



The average condition of rye at time of harvest was 88.9, 

 as compared with 89.7 a month earlier, 90.8 on August 1, 

 1906, 92.6 in 1905, and a ten-year average of 88.5. 



