AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
• ' WAIRARAPA SOUTH RETURNS. . The following are tho comploto returns for the Wairarapa South County: as kindly supplied to us by «'r W. R.. Bone, Superintendent ollector of Agricultural Statistics for this district 1891 1895 Total number of holdings 779 786 acres acres In grasses, after having been ploughed 41,451 43,086 In sown grasses, not previously ploughed ~,290,558 304,265 In Lay ... 1,487 1,4441 Laud broken up, not under crop 1 ( 872 698 ... meat ... ... 387 239 . Oats for grain 3,121 3,256 Barley ... ... 62 80 Maize 3 nil '• Rye 1 4 Peas 66 69 Beans : • 1 21 ■ Oats for green, food or . liny. 2,157 1,705 Potatoes 230 284 Turnips or rape 6,411 6,192 Mangolds, beet, carrots, ' parsnips, or onions... 19 20 "' ' Otliercrops ... 11 62 In garden 129 129 Orchard 328 294 .Plantations forest trees 468 _ 754 The number of horned cattle in the ■■ district is ■10,176; 12,765 of these king ~. Aceding cows. The daiiy cows number ;~30. Tho above shows the area of land broken in to bo steadily increasing. The great strides made by the dairy industry is also responsible for the increase in horned cattle. Tho area under fruit trees is again much less . than.the previous year, tho coillin moth being chiefly responsible, more apple growers having abandoned the cultivation of this fruit.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4984, 25 March 1895, Page 3
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214AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4984, 25 March 1895, Page 3
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