Farmlands Of New Zealand
NEAA’ ZEAEAND is one twentyninth the area of Australia and has one quarter of the population of (lie Commonwealth. Extending as far north as Adelaide and ns far south as Patagonia, the Dominion is 900 miles in length. WIL of it. is coasted, for no part is beyond. 70 miles of the sea. Unused lands amount to 23.000,000 acres. Occupied farm lan’ds cover 43,000,000 acres of which 19,500,000 acres are improved comprising 1,500,000 acres under crop, roots and fodders and 17,500,000 acres under sown grasses. Unimproved occupied lands cover 23,500,000 acres, of which 14,000,000 acres comprise principally tussock country carrying mostly merinos. By far the most of this is in the South Island. A recent average annual value of all farm production is £70,000,000, "at farm basis.” Of this, agriculture represents 10 per cent., dairying 40 per cent, and pastoral 50 per cent. Mown pastures for seed, hay and silage cover 700,000 acres, equivalent to 4 per cent, of the whole.
Stock carried includes 280,000 horses. 2.900,000 dairy cuttle, 1,500,000 beef cattle, 800,000 pigs and 32,000,000 sheep.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 43, 14 November 1939, Page 34 (Supplement)
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181Farmlands Of New Zealand Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 43, 14 November 1939, Page 34 (Supplement)
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