here’ that the e figures i a 
years 72 to76, difer very lite from thas given in the yeas : 
astagnation of agricultural industry durimg °™ — 
134 THE PROGRESS OF NEW SOUTH WALES—-1872 to 1881. 
t seems that we exported deste yes _ overland live stock to the 
“walt of £956,223; preserved m £133,266 ; a hides, — 
, £317,604 ; total, £1,407, 093. “To these 
: 
a 
oe value of wool exported, £4, 748,160, bringing up the value of 
the total pastoral industry to £6, 155, 253, N ow, we will see what 
we did last year. It seems that we have no record of the live 
stock driven overland to Sumani’: The figures are therefore 
confined to the numbers exported seaward or across the border to 
Victoria. It appears, then, that the live stock exported was 
valued at £777,674; preserved m &e., £211, 504 ; tallow, 
hides, leather, esi £677,064 ; total, el, 666,302. If we 
these figures the value of the wool, as previously shown, £7,149,787, 
we arrive at a total of £8,816, 089 as the produce of our pastoral 
r2 ons 
upon the returns of 1871. It is more than probable that the 
surplus over the advances on the clip of 1881 would bring up 
the value of our pastoral produce to considerably over ten millions 
ster] 
Agriculture. —In my review of the progress of our agricultural 
industry during the ten years 1862 to 1871, I find that I divided 
the period into two equal parts, as offering a better illustration of the 
advancement that had been made in this important branch of in- 
dustry. I struck the average acreage under crop of si qe 
nial period, in order to reduce the figures to a more reasona 
pass, uracy. What t did we 
find then? We found that fon 1862 to 1866 tin average acreage of 
our principal crops under cultivation was as follows, viz. : wheat, 
124,666 acres; maize, 101,225 acres ; other crops, 125, 614 acrés 
—making a total of 351,505 acres; whilst the acreage of 
under wheat had thus increased by 36, 299° acres, or 30 per 
. under all 
other crops by 30,124 acres, or 24 per cent.. The average jee 
ture and labour, somewhat under £4 per a 
Well, now, let us see how we stand by the statistics of 188]; 
after ten years, as we would hope, of well directed industry. -For 
r ond years, 
2082 293 ; maize, 122,634 ; other crops, 272,349. Now, we 
indicati ting the acreage "ander crop for the fivé 
Ay) 
the first five pit 1872 to 1876, we find an average acreage 09 
a wheat 159,086 acres ; maize, 117,872 acres ; other crops, 173,109 
sand for th ve 1877 to 1881, 
