Agricultural Statistics.
The agricr'tural statistics for the Counties of Thames, Piako and Coroaacndel have been completed, and the following return gives the total number of holdings, number of acies broken up but not under crop, and the extent of land under crop, including sow a grasses, &c, and the total of the three counties, which were comprised within Captain Fraser's Census District :— • , Total inv-iiber Lr.nd broken of Acres , , Nrnds, .No., of .tip but not ivtC.arHoldings. cropped. c.op. •, Oorothand"! County ..53 152 1,573 Thames Coui'jy ..113 " t.2 4,103 Piato Co-■.:■:■/ ./'"'.. S6 .. 6,1C;7 'Ci.SCI 202 6J91 <10/i7 In the Coromandel County, there are 9 acre™ sown for wheat,, e'rt'mafrd to pro--1 duce 2CO bushels; 19 in oais for green food or hay, and 13 acres for grain, es'/iMa? dio yield 125 bushels; 46 acres in f»o;' oes, eaD'mated to produce 206 tons.
Thames County —20 acres in wheat, estima^icly'eld 362 bushels; oa'is, 78 acres for p: 1 en food or hay, 70 grain, estimated yield 11C0 bushels ; barley 5 acres, estimated yield 82 ; 113 exrei in potatoes, estimated yield 671 tons. Piako Counl:y-r-7 acres in wheat, estimated yield 70 busbels; 463 acres in oats for gr on food or hay, 33 acres for grain, estitraled yield 1091 bushels; barley 14 acr .:, c tiniEted yield SO bushels ; potatoes 46 acres, estiniL ted 'yield 366 tons : jnvhay 336 acres, esiimaled yield 262 tons. ■ i
Tne total acreages in lov n fcrpssr • are as follows :—Thames County, 3434 a^res ; Coromandel County, 1271 acres, l Jiako County, 27,710 acres. , In the above returrs there are some apparent discrepancies, which are not explainable except on th.c groundthat some of the estimated yields Save been set down per acre instead of total estima: 3d yields. For instance, the acreage rider crop for hay, the estimated yield of which seems ridiculously small. In the deii'ls, Taotaoroa Riding has 150 acres in hay, the estimated yield; of which is set dow>i as 4 tons, and Patetere 12 acres, with • ~i esi-'mat i yield of 10 ton 3. The barley crop presents a sitrMar anomaly, and it certainly looks as if some of the sab-enumeraiors had failed to correct c > ors into wh" h the sett.crs may have fallen regarding the estimated yield per acre and total estimat d yiei.d. An average of 2 bushels of barley to the acie sc 3 JbJ manifestly erroneous.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2897, 29 May 1878, Page 2
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394Agricultural Statistics. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2897, 29 May 1878, Page 2
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