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CHAP. 

 III. 



MAIZE 



Table XII. 

 AREAS AND YIELDS OF TRANSVAAL DISTRICTS. 



1 Figures of area kindly furnished by the Surveyor-general of the Transvaal ; 

 statistics by the statician of the Department of Agriculture (Joubert, 1). 



" 1 morgen = 2-1165402 acres. 



:1 Estimated only. The actual crop was only about one-half of the expected, 

 owing to a remarkably unfavourable season. 



57. Natal. — Maize is produced in all parts of Natal, but 

 the Midland Districts (2,000 to 3,000 feet altitude) are generally 

 conceded to be the best for maize-growing. The coast-belt is 

 better suited to sugar cane and citrus fruits than to maize, 

 owing to the too rapid and luxuriant growth of weeds and con- 

 sequent cost of cleaning the land ; but the average yield per 

 acre is i] muids higher on the coast than "up-country". 



