✨ Agricultural Statistics
Account of Land in Cultivation and Agricultural Produce, February, 1887.
Registrar-General's Office, Wellington, 27th April, 1887.
Wm. R. E. BROWN, Registrar-General.
THE results of the collection made in March last, arranged in two tables, are published for general information.
TABLE I.—Holdings, Acreage, and Produce.—Comparison with previous Year.
- 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 bushels)
- 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 (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)
- In Hay:
- Grass Seed, Produce of:
- Cocks-foot (Bshls.)
- Rye-grass (Bshls.)
- Quantity of Last Year's Crop remaining on hand when Form was filled up:
- Wheat (bushels)
- Oats (bushels)
- Barley (bushels)
Note.—In the returns of Agricultural Statistics as above summarized, gardens (8,670 acres), orchards (14,215 acres), plantations of forest-trees (28,119 acres), holdings of one acre or less in extent, and holdings occupied by aboriginal natives, are not included. The total acreage in the column “In other crops” (22,002 acres) includes 4,720 acres in maize and sorghum, 1,011 in rye and bere, 9,206 in peas and beans, 4,348 in mangold, beet, carrots, parsnips, and onions, 528 in hops, 10 in tobacco, and 2,179 in other crops. The decrease of grass land in Marlborough is attributed to the last two very dry seasons.
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🌾 Primary Industries & Resources27 April 1887
Agriculture, Land, Holdings, Crops, Produce, Statistics, New Zealand
- Wm. R. E. Brown, Registrar-General