The acreage of buckwheat is about 778,000, which is 

 11,500 acres, or 1.5 per cent, less than last year. The aver- 

 age condition of buckwheat Augaist 1 was 91.9, as compared 

 with 93.2 in 1906, 92.6 in 1905, and a ten-year average of 

 91.8. 



The average condition of tobacco on August 1 was 82.8, 

 as compared with 81.3 a month earlier, 87.2 in 1906, 84.1 in 

 1905, and a five-year average of 83.1. 



The average condition of potatoes on August 1 was 88.5, 

 as compared with 90.2 a month earlier, 89 in 1906, 87.2 

 in 1905, and a ten-year average of 85.8. 



Preliminary returns indicate the acreage of hay to be 

 about 42,551,000 acres, or .2 per cent more than last year. 



In Massachusetts the average condition of corn was 85 ; 

 the average condition of oats, 89 ; the average condition of 

 rye, 95 ; the acreage of buckwheat, 97, and its average con- 

 dition, 91 ; the average condition of tobacco, 88 ; the average 

 condition of pastures, 91 ; the acreage of hay, 99 ; the average 

 condition of timothy, 96; the average condition of clover, 

 100 ; the average condition of potatoes, 91 ; the average con- 

 dition of Canadian j)eas, 90 ; the average condition of beans, 

 89 ; the average condition of cabbages, 90 ; the average con- 

 dition of onions, 89 ; the average condition of tomatoes, 87 ; 

 the average condition of apples, 70 ; the average condition 

 of peaches, 40; the average condition of blackberries, 85; 

 the product of raspberries, 82 ; the average condition of 

 cantaloupes and muskmelons, 80. 



Tempekature and Rainfall for the Whole Country. 



[From United States National Weekly Weather Bulletin.] 



Weeh ending August. 5. — The weather was unseasonably 

 cool from the middle and northern Rocky Mountain regions 

 eastAvard to the interior portions of the Middle Atlantic States 

 and New England. On the southern I^ew England and 

 middle and south Atlantic coasts and in the central and east 

 Gulf States the weekly mean temperature differed but slightly 

 from the normal. In south-central Texas and on the north 

 Pacific coast the mean temperature was above the normal. 

 There was more than the usual rainfall in the central and 



