NEW ZEALAND’S PASTURES.
IMPORTANCE TO COUNTRY. According to the latest available statistics covering the agricultural and pastoral industries carried on within the Dominion there are some 31,500,000 acres in pasture; of this area 17,000,000 acres represents sown or cultivated grasses and the balance, approximately 14,500,000 acres, represents native grasses, tussock, etc. The total area in arable, that is, really under crops of all kinds, including orchards, is 1,250,000 acres, so that of the whole occupied area in the Dominion 75 per cent, is in grass and only 3 per cent, in all other crops.
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Putaruru Press, Volume XI, Issue 268, 7 September 1933, Page 8
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94NEW ZEALAND’S PASTURES. Putaruru Press, Volume XI, Issue 268, 7 September 1933, Page 8
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