CEREALS AND ROOT CROPS.
AREA UNDER CULTIVATION.
[BY TELEGRAPH. PRESS association*.] Wellington, Friday. During October and November the Agricultural Department collected through the post particulars of the areas sown or intended to bo sown this season in cereals and root crops. ■ The returns show the following totals :•—
Aero*. Wheat ... 189.869 Oats 386,786 Barley 57/86 Maize 4.683 J'cas 19.649 Ityeffrass ••• 63,031 Cocksfoot 34.007 Clover ... 13.035 Potatoes 23.f80 Turnips ... 439.740 Mangolds 19,326 Ka.po 257.155
Taking the provincial districts, the principal cereal crops are shown as follows :—
District Wheat. Oats. Barley. Auckland 751 9,111 : 1,216 Taranaki ... ... 304 1,907 450 Havrke'a Bay ... 451 7,879 2.060 Wellington 3,098 17,212 1,585 Marlborough ... 688 6,646 8,754 Nelson ... ... 3,559 9,172 3.121 Canterbury 14f7,658 162.&32 122 Ota so 30,002 76,751 6,665 Southland 3,450 94.255 1,203
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15175, 14 December 1912, Page 8
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