110 STATISTICAL REYLEW — NEW SOUTH WALES. 



Tlius bringing up the value of our pastoral produce to a sum 

 approacliing seven millions sterling. 



Comparing this result with a similar investigation presented by 

 me to the Philosophical Society just six years ago, it would 

 appear that altogether, irrespective of the late rise in the value 

 of wool, the income from our pastoral industry has very nearly 

 doubled itself in the last sis years — the pastoral exports in 1865 

 being then estimated at not more than £3,298,402. 



But these figures, I see, include the value of the live stock, 

 wool and tallow, exported " overland." I must, therefore, to 

 make the comparison complete, look up the value of the pastoral 

 produce so exported last year. I find it is as follows, viz. : — 



Live stock £914,893 



Tallow, skins, &c 23,594 



Wool ... 2,443,380 



Total , £3,381,867 



If we add this to the amount previously estimated, we shall 

 arrive at an aggregate sum exceeding eight millions and a half 

 sterling as the total estimated value of our pastoral exports for 

 the year 1871, viz. : — 



Wool, seaward £4,748,160 



Tallow, &c., ditto 468,606 



"Wool, live stock, tallow, &c., overland. . . 3,381,867 



Grand Total £8,598,633 



Ageictjltuee. 



In order to illustrate more clearly the progress we have made 

 in this important branch of industry, it will be advisable to 

 divide the decennary into two equal periods, and average the 

 results of each. "We shall thus arrive at a more accurate know- 

 ledge of the progress we have made, than if we were to take the 

 results of single years. The comparison then comes out as 

 follows, viz. : — 



Average five years, 1863 to 1866 : "Wheat, 124,666 acres ; maize, 

 101,225 acres ; other crops, 125,614 acres ; total, 351,505 acres. 

 Average five years, 1868 to 1872 : "Wheat, 160,965 acres ; maize, 

 118,301 acres; other crops, 155,738 acres; total, 435,004 acres.* 

 "We find then from these figures — 



1. That the average acreage under wheat has increased by 

 36,299 acres, or nearly 30 per cent. 



2. That the average acreage under maize has increased by 

 17,076 acres, or nearly 17 per cent. 



* Agricultural Statistics are made up to 31st March. 



