AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS.
Tiie agricultural and pastoral: stat-' istics/ issued on February 20; as a supplement ;t6 the Government Gazette, will repay with a. considerable, amount, -of .'interesting | information .all who ' choose to expend, time... and .trouble in critically examining it-lie figures. '~The Department, .contents,.itselfwith/ giving . the'-' figures:, as . prescribed;: by. law, and makes no attempt' to present the statistics in an interesting way,. and : •yet, if intelligently! handled j ''."the figures could; b'e made of educative;value to the community. The area<in crops for the season: 1907-8 was .1,709,582 acres; as; compared with ■. .1,612,137 acres: in the previous season, showing the moderate increase of 97,445 'acres..; The; principal increases were: .by oats, 48,249 acres; barley*. 4547-' acres; turnips, • 34,868 acres; 1 ■ mangolds, 2671 acres; rape, 26,340 acres, arid-other smaller increases, making the aggregate increase 124,242 ; -acres. , The decreases totalled .26,797- acres, of which wheat accounted for 18,201 acres, potatoes for '4135 acres,' and peas' for 2905 acres. .Taking'the past seven seasons, the'areas in the several crops compare as under:— ■ Corn i .'. Green Crops. Pulse. Oops. Total. - Season. Acres. Acres. Acres. Acres. 1901-2 ... 820,353 19,718- . 567,775 , 1,407,816 1902-3 927,703 J9,292 ' 557,900 ' '.' 1,504,991 '19034 ... 901,038 ' 18,254 v 573,572 • 1,493,764 190-1-5 851,875 19,781. 623,066 y 1,494,722 1905-6 ... 805,851 . 21,250 , 645,283- ',1,535,381 1906-7 ... 892,786, '19,008 -700,3-43 ■' 1,612,137 1907-8 ; ...- 927,619. 16,631 • 765,342 1,709,592 The total area in, occupation increased from 37,408,473 acres to 37,564,218 acres, a. gain of 155,745 acres, which is a moderate; expansion compared, with the increases of ■ some past seasons. The following table;.will be interesting :— V ; ■ . Total area in Increase over occupation, previous year. Season. ' - Acres. "' Acres, r 1899-00 ■« ... 34,422,653 ' 1 ,1900-1: ... 34,911,573 488,920 1901-2- ' ... 35,507,889 596,316 ■ 1902-3 ... , 35,887,447 379,558 4903-4 >... - 36,476,481 ". 589,034; - ' 190-4-5 ' ... ' 06,511,151 : , ' 34,673 ' " 1905-6 ... 37,167,460 656,306 - I 1906-7 ,« 37,408,473 : ' .' ' 241,013 ' 1907-8 ... . 37,564,218 155,745,. Of the. total .'area of 37,564j218 acres iii occupation, the- North Island counts: for 14,901,234 acres, and .the Soutl\ Island for 22,662,984 acres; but of 'tliis 15,947,198' acres are in, tussock and native grasses.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 147, 16 March 1908, Page 6
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