Agricultural Statistics.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 258, 4 May 1895, Page 2

Agricultural Statistics.

The agricultural statistics for tlae 1 whole colony show.; that\: the total . number of holdings of over one acre in extent number 46,647, as against 45,290 in 1894. There are 14&,605; acres under wheat, as against; 242,737 last year, and the estimated gross pfcb l ! duce has fallen from 4^891j69^ bushels! to 3,613,137 bushels. under oats also shows decrease, and , the gross produce^ a fall of from 12,- --' 153,068 bushels to 1^,221^; fFwifir ■ ers have given more' attention tp : the 1 cultivation of barley than formerly? ; for the extent of land^eVot^dtOi this ■ product increased . from 'acres in 1894 to 36,519 in l^Si^and the estimated gross- produce] -has ;accprdf f. ingly increased from 724,653 bushels to 1,000,612 bushel.s. Jn .potatoes, there is also an increase Vf over 16,000r f 1 tons. The total yquantity'spfriJand under crop, exclusive of land under grasses, is given at 1,221,812 acres for 1894 and 1,1 57#5¥ l iacres|fpr"s/1895^ In land under grasses; after having been broken up, there isa substantial V increase from 3,865^48^;^ ISS& to"- --| 3,916,729 in 1895/^^e^ext^|:Ofy land under garden crops increased ' ; from 9951; acres in 1894 to 10*265 \ acres in 1895, but for orchard crops i there is an increasej of ;only; about, 200 >.: acres. '■' : -'= r '>'%■?•>',■-.:. :.<->K ?r>?abi ■ f