AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
-♦- THE CANTERBURY AND OTAGO RETURNS. Tho usual agricultural statistics nre published in a special " Ga/.ettc. which says tho season lias been very unfavourable, consequently ihe crops are backward and tlie harvest wall be Late. The area under wheat for threshing » 222 077 acres, under oats, 308,407 acres ; the'area sown for chatting, ensilage and feeding down purposes is 236,682 acres The following show an increased acreage:-Oats, 46,201 acres; bailey, 896 acres; rye, 500 acres- maize, 10J1 acres; peas, 1834 acres; linseed, go acres; hops, 34 acres; potatoes, 211 **!S; tnrSpe, 20,088 acres; other crops, 062 acres. ,„, ' , „,, nan Tlio decreases arc :—\\ heat, 3b,J«J acres- brans, 597 acres; vitchos, 4« acres! other corn crops, 750 acres; nianpolds, 1386 acres; rape, 4<b awes, $3 acres. The total increased aiea threSis B T 152,186 acres, agaitwt 66,474 «crrf, Vhich T«pie»ents o eligW 16*5,919 ajres, "^^.'"-^inst dbafl^ g ' «3' 1161 753 bushels. 68 638; on nand, I >V u ''oqij. flC resK39 aoree. acres.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12379, 19 December 1905, Page 10
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