VALUE OF PRODUCTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 3742, 17 January 1907, Page 2

VALUE OF PRODUCTS.

The “New Zealand Trade Review” contains an interesting statement showing the occupation and employment of the lands of the colony, and the value of the resulting products, which constitute so large a proportion of New Zealand’s exports. The following table shows the area under grain and green crops and grass since 1885

While the area under grain shows a reduction, and that under other crops only a slight increase in the latest quinquennium, the area under grass exhibits an increase of i ,457,000 acres, of which i,qio,ooo is in the North Island, and about 447,000 in the South Island, The total grazing area in the North Island exceeds that in the South Island by 63 per cent., while the bulk of the laud under cereals and other crops is found in the South Island. One of the main uses of these grazing land is the rearing of sheep, and the following figures give the totals of the flocks of New Zealand in the years mentioned :

In the meantime a very great increase has taken place in the numbers of our cattle, especially in the North Island. The following are the totals for the years 1881 and 1905 Year. K. Island. S-Island. -*fotal 1881 384.985 313.652 698.637 1995 1,362,474 448,462 1,810,936 The total for 1905 includes 517,720' dairy cows, of which 366,727 were in the North, and 150.993 iu the South Island. The value of our export of pastoral products has been as follows . £ 1885 18,699.399 1890 ... ... 24,269,523 1895 30,832,685 1900 ... ... 38,069,0971905 47,525,297 To put it another way, the excess which the exports of the twenty years, from 1886 to i9°s show over the scale of 1881-1885, amounts in the aggregate >to nearly 66 millions, or an average of per annum.

NORTH* ISLAND. Grain crops Green and other Acres in Year. in acres. crops in a irs. Grass. 1885 44.666 62,088 2,7*55,257 1890 90,519 100,873 3,623,684 1895 ’ 48,345' 133, '.MS 5,068,120 1900 84,853 191,140 6,626,609 19«S5 6 2, "Off- .SGSfiSti'— ' SOUTH island; 1885 019,874 405,613 2,503,577 1890 735,986 405,613 2,901,365 1895 511,834 463,968 3,761,597 1900 660,832 605,633 4,226,693 1905 " 599,849 628,906 4,673,152

Year. N. Island. S. Island. Total. 1885 4,925 253 9,621,548 14,546,801 1890 6,588,346 9,527,767 16,116,113 1895 8,994,6-±6 10,831,958 19,826,604 1900 9,998,173 9,357,022 19,355,195 1905 9,388,605 9,742,270 19,130,875