AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
A recent Government Gazette gives the following results of t ! c late collection of apric.utural statistics : Of oats, throughout the colony, there were grown in 1881. 2}5,Q30 acres, with an'average yield of 82 :i buishe ; hi; in 1882, 243.387 acres; the average b^ing 08| bushels. Of wheat, in 1881,' there were 324 949 acrrs, with a yield of about 25 bushels ; in 1882, 365.7/15,' yielding- at the rate df 23' bushels to the acre In barley there were, in 1881. 46, f 7B acres, yielding 26 bushels; white in 18^2 there were 29.50H acres giving an average of 2l bushels, ll.ere were, in 1881, 22.003 acres i» potatoes, which averaged 4f tons to the acre ; in 1882, there were 22 540 acres, which gave returns oi about 5£ tons. This shows that while the area laid down in wheat and oats had increased last year, the returns were no less to the acre than iv AHol.
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Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 20, 23 August 1882, Page 3
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