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Rh which it will appear that 27,206 acres were cultivated in cereals or what might be used for bread to nearly an equal number with the population.

The number of stock in the different districts was:—

They were in the latter year distributed thus:—

The average of produce is low, that of wheat being to the acre 14 bushels, barley 17, oats 17, rye 11, maize 22, and of potatoes 2½ tons to the acre; the crop of hay scarcely averages 1 ton to the acre, but this is, unquestionably, the result of want of capital, scarceness of labour, and bad cultivation. The averages in the early days of the Colony were much higher, as is the yield in many cases now. The average price of wheat in 1876 was 6s, 3d. a bushel, of barley 5s., of potatoes £9 2s. a ton, of hay £6; but when the cost of cartage is increased by distance, or bad roads, the prices are much higher, as wheat 7s., barley 6s., potatoes £11, and hay £9.

, where land has natural springs to provide water in summer, is a most profitable though not largely increasing industry. The first colonists introduced nearly all the vegetables and fruits now under cultivation, which include almost all those of temperate