AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF CANTERBURY.
The agricultural statistics of Canterbury have just been published. The Provincial district includes 31,809 holdings, 2309 of which are freehold. The total area under cultivation, including land sown in English grass, was 717,163 acres. The total of grass sown land was 427j856 acres, that, therefore, under other crops, would be 289,307 acres. The grass crop has evidently been poor, as only 8,081 tons of grass hay are reported as the produce of 9,266 acres. Next to grass, wheat and oats occupy the largest space, there being 119,999 acres of the former, and 72,924 acres of the latter. The total estimated produce of wheat is 2,239,225 bushels, giving an average of over 18 Jr bushels per aero. The total estimated produce of oats is 1,489,566 bushels, giving an average per acre of about 201bushels. When we remember that in the years 1874-5-6 the average of wheat throughout the colony was nearly 29 bushels, it is pretty clear that no results, however splendid, in other parts of the colony than Canterbury can bring the colonial average for the season just past up to what it then was.
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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 416, 12 April 1879, Page 2
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189AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS OF CANTERBURY. Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 416, 12 April 1879, Page 2
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