Land Under Cultivation
m A contemporary says :— Compared with the other, colouies, New Zealand baa nearly as much land under cultivation »g the whole of them combined, as the following figures of the total land in crop, in fallow, and artificial grasses, will •how :— New Zealand ... 6,651,255 acres South Australia ... 3,730,980 „ JNew South Wales ... 733,582 „ Tasmania 318,555 „ <Jueen»land 166,022 „ "Western Australia ... 55,671 „ Even deducting the 2,303,598 acres which had been sown with artificial grasses either in freshly burned bush land or through the agency of cattle, this colony would still be a long way in advance of all her neighbors in the extent of her cultivations.
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Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 81, 11 December 1883, Page 3
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106Land Under Cultivation Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 81, 11 December 1883, Page 3
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