AGRICULTURAL RETURNS.
The agricultural returns for the C ninth's of Southland ami Wallace have been made up and are as follows :
bay 18,453 acres were cut, being 3070 acres jess than in 18SS. There Ins hern a great decrease in (he grass si*p/l returns, only (JO .06.1 bu-hols of r e, an ! 1075 bushels of cocksfoot liav'ng been grown. Tae average yield (In’s year elves : "Wheat, three bushels; oats, two
bushels ; barh-y, one bushel ; and potatoes, half a ton per acre less than last year.
■WHEAT. Year Acres Bushels. 1889 11.70S ‘291 1.33 1SSS 10,710 lyj, / ol OATS. n *) 8 >.89.8 3,020.900 1833 8 ',781 3,009,021 TA ILr.V. 1830 1173 00,090 1838 113(3 30,801 tota roKs. Tons 1380 1580 5991 1SS3 111! 1130
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Western Star, Issue 1349, 27 April 1889, Page 4
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123AGRICULTURAL RETURNS. Western Star, Issue 1349, 27 April 1889, Page 4
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