✨ Agricultural Statistics
Account of Land in Cultivation and Agricultural Produce, February and March, 1885.
Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 13th May, 1885.
Wm. R. E. BROWN, Registrar-General.
TABLE I.—HOLDINGS, ACREAGE, AND PRODUCE.—COMPARISON WITH PREVIOUS YEAR.
The results of the collection made in February and March last, arranged in two tables, are published for general information.
Provincial Districts
- Numbers of Holdings over One Acre in Extent:
- Freehold
- Rented
- Part Freehold, part Rented
- Total Numbers of Holdings
- Extent of Land broken up, but not under Crop (Acres)
- In Wheat:
- Acres
- Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels)
- In Oats:
- For Green Food or Hay (Acres)
- For Grain (Acres)
- Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels)
- In Barley:
- Acres
- Estimated Gross Produce (in bushels)
- In Potatoes:
- Acres
- Estimated Gross Produce (in tons)
- In Turnips or Rape (Acres)
- In Other Crops (Acres)
- Total Number of Acres under Crop, exclusive of Land under Grasses
- In Sown Grasses:
- In Hay (Acres)
- Estimated Gross Produce (in tons)
- In Grasses after having been broken up (including such as in Hay) (Acres)
- Grass-sown Lands not previously ploughed (including such as in Hay) (Acres)
- Grass Seed Produce of:
- Cocksfoot (Bshls.)
- Rye-grass (Bshls.)
- Quantity of Last Year's Crop remaining on hand when Form was filled up:
- Wheat (bushels)
- Oats (bushels)
- Barley (bushels)
No account of produce of grass seed was obtained in 1884.
Note.—In the returns of Agricultural Statistics as above summarized, gardens and orchards attached to residences (20,254 acres), plantations of forest trees (24,688 acres), holdings of one acre or less in extent, and holdings occupied by aboriginal natives, are not included. The total in the column for other crops (22,163 acres) includes 3,393 acres in maize and sorghum, 819 in rye and bere, 10,056 in peas and beans, 4,870 in mangold, beet, carrots, &c., 1,228 in hops, 79 in tobacco, and 1,718 in other crops.
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NZ Gazette 1885, No 33
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🌾 Account of Land in Cultivation and Agricultural Produce
🌾 Primary Industries & Resources13 May 1885
Agricultural Statistics, Holdings, Acreage, Produce, Provincial Districts, Crops, Grasses
- Wm. R. E. Brown, Registrar-General