Grain Satistics.
(Timaru Herald.) '. Those who are disposed to take a gloomy view of the, prospects of this Colony, and who.imaginf;that,relatiTely to other countries. New Zealand is not making satisfactory progress, would do well to inquire how/ things, really stand. ,The true test of a country's welfare ift its production,- -and the- safestlarid leaat precarious sourceTof m new countries' at all events, 1 is thecultiva'tioa f of t^ie' soil, jtis .tiiereforo very' eu-, couraging , that , Ne^. .Zealand already stands at, the head of; all .the Auatra* lasfan Colonies as a' farming country. .The statistic? of -the year ißßi>i 882. 'show that while'the grairt product . of ' {^Victoria wasj 13,9&%572,. bushels/ and I of feouth. Australiaf:B,3l|,o33, bußhels, ■that of New Zealand was 15,^86, 831. VicjtoHa gr^^lTU.STYi'liushelg off wheat against S^'g^S^busn^ls grown,' . ■jin. New, Zealand but New-jZjealaiidi grew 6,924,848' bu5he1s of. oats against 8,612,111 bushela growh iii Victoria*. New Zealand beat; -bojbb -New Souths. Wales & South- 'Austral^ ! In {i bothi wheaiiian^oa^s.. . The. inpM; i g^atUyijjjf teature ofjthese returns, howeye'r, fe the high average of. production to. the acre m New Zealand. Victoria; j, grew;;, ; :9 bushels^of. wheat to th 9 acre, iNew South Wale*. 15; -bushbls,., Queensland 8 . • bushels'j South Australia ?A. < bushelt , Western. Australia 7. bushels, Tasmania 18 bushels, and New Zealand no leaa^ . than 22 bushels. j> In oats again head the list hy^ uJong' way oreß aU^n^i: bontinental .GoloniißS^ ,-thoaghj only bj : a . fraction over Tasmania. In t»ariey» Tasmania alone beats us by an infinity esimat fraction. . s 01 potatoes! WO; . grow ,- ; , ,5 tans to the acre; against 3 toos, the highest average m any other .ofi^heae . ; ; Colonies. •
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 31, 2 January 1883, Page 2
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