Agricultural.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 28, 21 January 1875, Page 3

Agricultural.

EW ZEALA^AW a! AWsfSX-\ TRA£WS STAHSf[e& ■..-•■- •-.^.•;^. ( ; The following statistics relating to nd in cultivation .and the pyodq.ee of. ops i» *.h« .vMH?ws , .tiojonies .will /lie/ ad mßi interest:— r „- •'»• , Tbe agricultural, statistics in most of e colonies are Collected in the .months February amTMSFcIj oT r eacti-year, id the returns here' givei^ttre for those oaths of 1874. The following table lows the ratio of tillage per head, ( in Iculating* which the population at the Ist December; 1873, lias been taken :

In Victoria the area uhder-wheat was 49.976" acres, producing '4,752,289 ushels, or 13.58 bushels to the acre; i New South Wales, ■ \ff1, 647 acres, reducing 2,238,414 bushels, or an verage of 13.43 " bufhels per acre. Jueenslaud had under- wheat only 8u«54 cres, estimated (accprding to ncrenble ates obtaining in. New South Wales, >o average return .lieing forwarded) to. ffoduce. 47,7:30 bushels.. The area mder the. same ce^al in South Ausralia was 784.?tJ4 acres, with a proluctjon or 0,178,816 bushels, or only .87 bushels to the" acre— the lowest icreable rate of any of the colonies, and he natural result of impoverishing the and by a continued succession of the ame. crop. 1 he. extent of wheat cultivated in Western Australia was 25,G9? icres, producing 345,368 bushels, an iverage of 13 44 per acre. In Tasmania i^,610 acres of wheat were cultivated, be produce being 947,813 bushels, or 15. 17 to the acre ; and in New Zealand hs wheat area was 132,428 acres, with i produce of 3,391,634 bushels. showOn % *' ir ie "ighesr average per acre, !J5 61 bushels. The total area tinder ibeat in all the colonies in February lid March last was thus 1,5*21,(596 cres, producing* 17,902,0(54 bushels, lie total average being 11.76 bushels >eraere, . . _ The produce of the principal other ■ereals in the different colonies is estimated as follows: —

The tons raisfd of potatoes- and hay espectively were as follow : — Victoria, jotatues 109, 882, hay 147,3f»5; New iouth Wales, potatoes 42,2^1, hay 08,945; Queensland, potatoes 914G, my 8889; South Australia, potatoes c-,014, hay 145.3>J9 ; Western AusraJia, potatoes IQC3, hay 31,882 ; Tusiama, potatoes 24 J 9?o", hay 28,430; lew . Zealand, potatoes 51,758, hay 2,18?.

Ij Name ul Colony. Oats. Harley. Maize. IfushelN Busluls. BucheU Victoria .. .- 1,74 ,4>l s<W,«**l 4 „-{47 Hew South Wales.. MK.O-i- 00,-_6 4,120.112 -Jucen-lar.d .. .. 6,605 . 10,913 750,047 south Australia .. 2*,33r 120VW8 — Western -Austialia. 2rv':'u 87.629 2,110 Pabmania .. .. 531,247 I '.4.459 — S'ew Zealand .. 3,292,807 006,-102 18,795 Total 5,954,377 1.524,0 17 4Q'.H,4'l

Number of Acres -under Tillage. Total |,er nen<l °' 10tai - Population. ietoria 98^996 IV2 fw South Wales .. 456*£» •_«■■•'•" ueensland., .. . 61VI8 - *43 - , . Dtttb Austrn-ia .. .. _,2_?,«i;3 6*lß Testern AustraJa ... 61.724 2*ol •.mania 107.951 I -01 ew Zealand ....;... 376,156 .. 1*27 pr . Grand Total .. 3#)6,9Zl }* -, 1*&.