HORTICULTURE IN NEW ZEALAND. 



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Live Stock Totals 1901-2. 



Horses 279,672 



Asses and Mules 406 



Cattle 1,361,784 



Sheep 20,233,099 



Pigs 224,024 



Average and Actual Yield of Principal Corn Crops, 1902. 



Wheat. 



163,462 acres yielding 4,046,589 bushels, an average of 24*76 an 

 acre. 



Oats. 



405,924 acres yielding 15,045,233 bushels, an average of 37*06 an 

 acre. 



Barley. 



26,514 acres yielding 855,993 bushels, an average of 32*28 an acre. 



Maize. 



12,503 acres yielding 571,834 bushels, an average of 45*77 an acre. 



Bye. 



1,090 acres yielding 27,250 bushels, averaging 25 bushels an acre. 



I would like to bring under your notice what a field there is in New 

 Zealand for people with a small capital of their own, and who are 

 desirous of acquiring a small freehold where they would be free from the 

 cares of expensive living and the keeping up of appearances as in the old 

 country. I am aware that the seemingly long distance, and to some the 

 dreaded sea journey, deter many from entertaining the idea, but as 

 regards the journey no such fear need exist. Large and comfortable 

 steamers now leave direct for the colony every fortnight, replete with 

 every comfort. One objection that I have heard, especially among the 

 gentler sex, is that they fear a long bout of sea-sickness, but I can assure 

 them that, apart from a slight indisposition at first amongst those who 

 are prone to the complaint, modern science represented in the huge 

 present-day steamer has practically abolished mal de mer. Parents of 

 large families with a taste for horticulture and fruit-growing will find 

 every facility given them for indulging in the growing of their favourite 

 plants, whilst their sons can either take up land on their own account 

 or find, if more congenial to them, employment in the large towns. But I 

 may here say that what New Zealand wants is strong, hardy young men for 

 country life, who will help break down and bring the bush into cultivation, 

 thereby adding to the wealth and general good of the community ; and it 

 should be a source of satisfaction to them that they will remain undar 

 the grand old flag of the Motherland. A hearty British welcome awaits 

 the new settler. He will find the colonists as one man united in their 



