The average condition of buckwheat on September 1 was 

 17A, against 91.9 a month earlier, 91.2 in 1906, 91.8 in 

 1905, and a ten-year average of 88.2. 



The average condition of potatoes ~on September 1 was 

 80.2, against 88.5 a month earlier, 85.3 in 1906, 80.9 in 

 1905, and a ten-year average of 79.4. 



The average condition of tobacco on September 1 was 

 82.5, against 82.8 a month earlier, 86.2 in 1906, 85.1 in 

 1905, and a ten-year average of 82.8. 



In Massachusetts the average condition of corn September 1 

 was given as 79 ; the average condition of oats when har- 

 vested as 86 ; the average condition of buckwheat September 

 1 as 84; the average condition of tobacco as 88; the average 

 condition of potatoes as 80 ; the average condition of Can- 

 adian peas as 93 ; the average condition of beans as 85 ; the 

 average condition of cabbages as 80 ; the average condition of 

 onions as 85; the average condition of tomatoes as 84; the 

 average condition of apples as 55; the average production 

 of peaches as 20 ; the average condition of cranberries as 75 ; 

 the average production of cantalou|)es as 75 ; the average 

 condition of watermelons as 76 ; the number of stock hogs 

 fattening, compared with last year, as 97, and their average 

 condition as to size and weight as 97. 



Tempekature and Rainfall for the Whole Country. 



[From the National Weekly Weather Bulletins.] 



Week ending September 2. — The temperature of the week 

 was unseasonably low in JSTew England, the northern portion 

 of the Middle Atlantic States, the eastern portion of the 

 lower Lake region, throughout the Plateau regions, and in 

 the Pacific coast States. The mean temperature was above 

 the normal throughout the central valleys, Southern States, 

 and the greater part of the upper Lake region. The rainfall 

 was less than the normal over much of the greater part of 

 the country east of the Eocky Mountains. With the excep- 

 tion of limited areas in the central Gulf States, and on the 

 west Gulf coast, there was a marked deficiency in the precipi- 

 tation throughout the Atlantic coast and Gulf States, a large 



