OUR PRODUCE EXPORTS.
The elory of the last tenjyears of agricultural export is not new to the publio, which is well aware that thwehas been m tb»t period a large increase. The iaowase, wa learn from the returns for the deoade, which have just been made up, ending December 31st last, has been from a trifle over '"ur millions and a-quarter m 1881, to a trifl. -.■"•'ler seven and a-half m 18>0. Tho re'urnt H'iog divided into two groups—the ' .tnimsl produce gjoup, and tho "egrieullural produots group—enable us to eeo '.t a elance where th» increase has come fro-n. The first has inors&eed from £3,200,000 (m round figuret) lo £6,800,0005 while the second has only rissn from £1,080,000 to 51,230,000. In the enimals ftnd produe* divifion the largest inor®^» h«s com» from wool, that stnplo having ran up from 59,000,0001 b m 1881, valued at to 105,000,0001 b m 1890, valued st £4,150,000—an increase of £1,380,000. Froaeft maat conats n#xt with £1,087,000, ths return for 1881 being zero, the modest bsdnnteg of this trade (£19,000) being dated 18SS. Butter follows longo infenallo with an increase of £114,000 (£BOOO to £132,000), and cheess with £78.000 (£6OOO to £84,000), ramage skins to £31.000, theae items together furnishing two and a-half millions of ths increase of three millions. Babbit 9kinß ara a portentous it»m, baring gone up from 8,600,000 — valued at £34,000 ~ to 18,600:000, valued at £111,000. The wheat rsport is the disappointing feature of the agricultural divifion. In 1883 this export reached its highest point with £1,067.000; by 18S«5 it was down to £181,000, m 1887 it was no higher than £108,000, sinoe when it iner»ewd from year to y«ar, reaching £672 000 m IS9O. The outs show a steady increaa" till the last jenr, which chronicles a drop of £130,000 m value—£3^o,ooo to £230,000. Ths Southern farmers are paying more iattention to sheep breeding than grain, and the pastoral industry m the north'is making great headway.—Auckland, Herald. ' ' " "'"'
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Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5169, 16 June 1891, Page 4
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326OUR PRODUCE EXPORTS. Timaru Herald, Volume LII, Issue 5169, 16 June 1891, Page 4
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