CROP REPORT FOR THE MONTH OF OCTOBER, 1888. 



Returned to the Office of the State Board of Agricul- 

 ture, Nov. 1, 1888. 



Office State Board of Agriculture, 



Boston, Mass., Nov. 3, 1888. 



General Remarks. 



With this bulletin our work in this line closes for the sea- 

 son. Though not what we would have liked to have made 

 it, we yet feel that it has been very successful and that it 

 has proven of some benefit to the agricultural community of 

 the State. Many thanks are due our correspondents for the 

 interest they have taken in the project and for the manner 

 in which they have made their returns. We hope that this 

 work may be carried on next season and that we may be 

 enabled to make it of more practical value. We trust our 

 present correspondents will heartily co-operate with us next 

 season. We will mail copies of this bulletin upon applica- 

 tion. 



The Weather. 



October, like September, was a wet, cold month. Consid- 

 erable rain fell and there was an abnormal shortage of sun- 

 shine. A severe snow squall prevailed in North Adams on 

 the 9th, and made the summit of Greylock white. In Mon- 

 roe, Franklin County, rain or snow fell on seventeen days, 

 and there were only four days of full sunshine. In that 

 town 6.5 inches of rain and 4 inches of snow fell during the 

 month. Similar reports came from other sections of the 

 State. This excessive amount of cold, wet weather has 

 greatly hindered farm work, and, in some sections, has 

 nearly ruined some of the principal crops. Taking it alto- 

 gether the past season has been a very remarkable one, and 



