AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL STATISTICS.

Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 204, 3 September 1904, Page 4

AGRICULTURAL & PASTORAL STATISTICS.

THE FALLING-OFE OF1 SHEEP.

rest Association. Electric Telegraph,

Copyright. Christohuroh. September 2.

Afc Che meeting of the Chamber of Commerce to day Mr W. D. Meares said that though an idea was prevalent that the area in tbe Colony under root crops had enormously increased during the past few years, as a matter of fact tbe area was practically the same as five years ago, being 569,639 acres now as against 569,075 in 1898. Id regard to sheep, he believed tbe falling-off in the flocks of the Colony was righting itself. Daring the car rent year tbe number of ewes had increased by 150,100, having reached 10,091.041, of which 5,070,726 were in the South Island.