DAIRY HERDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 25 June 1912, Page 5

DAIRY HERDS.

INTERESTING FIGURES

The advance made in the dairying industry during the past few years makes it interesting to look into the matter of how the dairy stock list stands. In 1901 there were 381,492 dajry cattle in New Zealand, and at the taking of the last census in April, 1911, this total had increased to 633,733 cows J" milk and dry. This latter total is made up as under:— j Provincial District. Number. Auckland 180,386' Tara-iaki 134,241 Hawke's Bny 31,401 Wellington 114,741 Marlborough 7,457 Nelson 15,148 Westland 6,650 Canterbury 51,829 Otago 46,330 Southland . 45,550 Total 633,733 A return just completed by the Government shoys the number of cows supplying dairy factories in New Zealand at 437,824.