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Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 100, 25 March 1876, Page 2

Tun agricultural statistics of the province, up to February last, furnish some very encouraging items as to the progress made generally, throughout its limits, during the previous year, but in the Egmont district especially. By Egmont, wc may more particularly denote Fatea, for in this district has far the greatest advancement taken place. A few pf the particulars will doubtlessly be of interest to our readers. By ihese returns wc find that there are SGO holdings in the province, out of which Egmont has 284. Grey and Bell has the largest amount of land broken up and sown for grain only, as also for hay, but with reference to the hitter product, it is very suggestive of the superiority of the Egmont land to find that whilst Grey and Bell had 452 acres in hay against 887 acres in Egmont, the yield of the latter is set down at tons, against 500-4 tons from nearly a hundred acres more in Grey and Bell. In sown grasses, Egmont distances its fellow-districts, having no less than 38,16G| acres, against less than 17,000 in the whole of the other part ot the province. During the last year there has been a great decrease in the production of cereals, as a whole, and potatoes are also in the background. As compensation for this, the total number of acres under crop, including sown grasses, was 13,182 acres in 1874, against 5G,'J414 acres in 1875, being in one year, an increase of no less than 18,7504 acres. This includes the whole province, but when it is remembered, as shown above, that Egmoul’s cultivated area is considerably more than double all the other portion of the province, the proportionate increase here can be readily estimated. Even these few tacts have more than passing interest to the settlers here, and the statisticsin question should, and np doubt will,attract the attention and regard of the General Government in framing their Estimates for the next financial year.