1904.] 



Crops in New Zealand. 



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returns for the whole of Germany. These have now been 

 published and are given in the following table : — 



Crop. 



Area. 



Production. 



1902. 



1903. 



1902. 



1903. 



VVneat ... 





Acres. 

 4,723,171 



Acres. 

 4,464,463 



Cwt. 

 76,754,221 



Cwt. 

 69,958,581 



Spelt 





769,793 



740,590 



9,507,131 



8,815,646 



Rye ... 





15,201,726 



14,851,658 



186,831,309 



194,906,273 



Barley ... 





4,060,742 



4,200,218 



61,008,038 



65,404,467 



Oats 





10,266,036 



10,597,283 



146,944,812 



154,936,969 



Potatoes 





8,004,225 



7,996,768 



Tons. 

 42,763,890 



Tons. 

 42,212,041 



Clover ... 





4,753,740 



4,653,749 



9,493,989 



9,571,644 



Lucerne 





559,497 



558,195 



1,320,061 



1,302,661 



Hay 





14,695,347 



14,631,924 



25,598,95! 



25,931,464 



A supplement to the New Zealand Gazette of February 18th, 



1904, contains the complete returns of the areas under corn and 



green crops and of grasses, &c, in New 



Crops in Zealand on 15th October, 1903. The area 

 New Zealand. r , D _ . . , - , 



of wheat sown for grain is returned as 



230,346 acres as against 194,355 acres in the preceding year, and 

 of oats 409.390 acres as compared with 483,659 acres in 1902. 

 There were in addition 613 acres of wheat and 211,408 acres of 

 oats sown for feeding, ensilage, &c. The area of grass land in 

 the country amounts to over 34 1 million acres, made up of 

 44 million acres of ploughed land sown with grass and clover, 

 7,300,000 acres of surface sown grasses, and of 22,877,000 acres 

 of native and tussock grass. 



