Crop Report for the Month of October, 1907. 



Office of State Board of Agrictjlturb, 

 Boston, Mass., Nov. 1, 1907. 



Bulletin No. 6, Crop Report for the month of October, 

 the final issue of the season, is herewith presented. We 

 wish to thank our correspondents for their faithful and pains- 

 taking assistance, so freely given and cheerfully maintained. 

 We regret that it is not in our power to reward them more 

 substantially, but can assure them that their efforts have 

 been of great value in the work of the Board. It is our 

 hope that all of them will be in a position to assist us in 

 the same manner with the coming of another spring. 



The special articles printed this year have been: Bulletin 

 ]!^o. 1, " Corn as a grain crop in Massachusetts," by Prof. 

 Wm. P. Brooks ; Bulletin No. 2, " Plum culture in Massa- 

 chusetts," by Prof. F. A. Waugh ; Bulletin No. 3, " Hatching 

 and rearing chicks by natural methods on the farm," by 

 John S. Robinson; Bulletin No. 4, "Bee keeping: some 

 suggestions for its advancement in Massachusetts," by Bur- 

 ton N. Gates ; and Bulletin No. 5, " Statutory bird pro- 

 tection in Massachusetts," by Edward Howe Forbush. We 

 have a limited number of Bulletins Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 5 on 

 hand, which we shall be glad to send to any one desiring 

 them. The supply of Bulletin No. 3 is entirely exhausted, 

 but we shall reprint the article on hatching and rearing 

 chicks by natural methods, and any requests for the same 

 will be placed on file and filled when the reprint is issued. 



Particular attention is called to the article at the close 

 of this bulletin, on " Greenhouse pests and their control," 

 by Dr. H. T. Fernald, professor of entomology at the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural College. The greenhouse industry is 

 a large and growing one in Massachusetts, and deserving of 

 more attention than we have been able to pay to it up to 

 the present time. In offering this article we feel that we 

 are doing much to make up for any seeming previous neglect, 

 as there is no one more competent to write on insect pests 



