Agricultural Statistics

Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 130, 26 April 1890, Page 4

Agricultural Statistics

. We^give - below-' -a* summary /and:i a; «coiiipari^uu between this and last <,year firfc the. fiimM. linpcodaut .jjrops, fiuppliedito ■-us^-by; the .superinteudeat -colleutor for the district iucludiogaihe couutles, ot Itangiiikei, Mana^atu, -Oroua, and' H'yrjw heuual The niiin- : ber. of, -fap(ding s ,- liiid year 'are ,%Q3Q y - shotriuyg^ ahiucrease over* .last year in Kangmkei; ! 'oi"' s^; Mknawatu, :f 6 ; ; Oroua, 9.5. ; and Hor.owiien'iia," 57'; l> pV! -a total ~iaerea.se .= iof 226. , In wheat -this yerfß'tfa'tJiiuwere-' 6^70 acres v . With -a yield of nearly 25 busbe'ls-to the r ijeiug at au .. increase.' qf 666ucres, -and nearly 2. bushels, to; the acre. *oats this^year -the acreage was 9,007 lacrespyieldin^ a ; little over S7 baa^ heis, ishbwiug ' a*i iucrease 1 of 5,728 --acreSjV.^Bd naoW than three bushel^ to :the Sere. : " J l3alrfey is 'hardly' /mentioning, there being only 349 r -ticresjiwith, , a yield of about '28 busthere were 797. cacres[. yielding Tabput 7^ tuijs, or ah in--crease^ of 1 178 acres and nearly, two tons to the acre. In all the niih'of -<jrops & therie : is I very: little^ difference between, the ■ &two .' yearsi- Kn - grasses, -after^ land' : haying been* broken < up, ithere-' wele^ this year 78,79^ adres 6'r the panic as last year. In ,graßß_<; apwfn^lTlands < not .previously plougheditheTincrease is very marked, t.eiug 19,883 acres, this year the .being, .367,862 as agains! -347,^^1°, last.'., The total number" of -acrea^iin^er crpp, were this year 468,^09, in 1 889, 444, 1 739 showing an jncrease' 25,068. On the whole the progress in the four counties has been very -satisfactory, ;both as regards the in- - crea^Bd acreage binder ■, crop and also 4he yield. Iv addition to agricultural -statig'Sica, thißayear: the. number of .horned cattle of ages was taken, and -the result is as-foilows : — Bangiliikei, n^SS^lMaaaFfltu, 16;i97.; r Oroua, 24,903 ; and HorowJienua, 2,993 ; being aitrotal /of 161,478. . .Of this number d7|s63ii aiie breeding ;cows; If other. partß-<Sf- the coiony can show a -similar Jesuit, ibere jvilli be;an abun-. -dant supply for freezing purposes for -a long $hile.. to, come. This .return, -of course, dp^Sr.ngt include, the number of -cattle in possession; of the, Maoris, whichf must , be pretty.considerable. -The ; Government this year also .wished to obtain information re-, -apectingr the. .flax industry in the -^--colony, a^ad for the four counties above mentioned the liuf urination supplied, is • as follows: — There are,. or. were within the la.st 'month, 65 mills in operation^ .and (approximately) the .number of acreß^n flax is 26,215. How rn^ny mills"are now closed we do not If now." There ap|wasqßt]fcoi>e plentyj of muterial to wofk^,'^|n;rf,oE, many years to come, ansl if-bnly some cheaper and more -affective process for conVertingi it into cfibre caa be discovered, the ; .quality o? -available TaMtterial;\vil| be spuroe/of .■great wealihllo* these di&tuiccs in ihe future.