Accr_Jin« to the Official Year Book for 1897, at the beginning of last year there were in this colony 10,045,278 acres sown in arti6cial graasep. Of this area 4,308,720 had been previously ploughed. A large portion of the I-tt ht area bad been forest land aown down afer the timber had been wholly or partially burnt of£ The following table übo ws the acreage in sown grasses in the Australasian colonies, according to theanost recent returns, which show thafcitjbie area of land under sown gri|p^;*fc the beginning of 1897 was times as great in New Zealand ag in tlie whole of Tasmania IS^ilwtralia,
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Bruce Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 2955, 26 April 1898, Page 6
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