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 PBODUCTION AND INDUSTRY

The total number of holdings in 1919-20 was 75,310. The following table shows the areas under the principal crops and the produce of each for four years : —

Years

ended

Marcb

SI

Total

Vrea Cul tivated

1317 1918

1,900 Asm

6,7il 5,783

5,309

Wheat

1.0M 1,000 Kent B&ifols

3.1-26 51,10.'

ats

Barley

Potatoes

1,000

1,000

1,000

1,000

Itnafci b

Acre*

Bnshel*

acre*

Tons

UN

M

74

188

n

67

100

138

1,529

140

Hay

1,000

1,000

Acres

Tod*

1.233

250

1 984

1,114

1.117

The produce per acre of the principal crops was : —

Barley

Tear ended

Wto il

Oats

Potatoes

H»T

March 31

Bushels

Mai-

Other

Bushels

Bushels

Bushels

Ton*

Tons

1917

1637

18 69

19 92

2 55

1-37

1918

14 03

20 94

23 87

22 58

127

1919

1140

15-38

20-70

19-75

2 66

1-18

1920

7*75

1180

IS 33 17 33

-J-71

1-11

In two years the area and yield of vines and of tobacco were : —

iras-u

i'.-i-i"

Acres

Tield

Acres

Tield

Vines Tobacco.

187

1,34V,309 gall. 1,885 cwt.

27,354 409

1,512,000 gall. ' Not available.

In addition to these, green forage covered 89,802 acres, and gardens (both market and private) and orchards occupied an extent of 98,969 acres in 1919-2"

There is a small beet-sugar undertaking in the hands of the government. In the season 1919-20 1,080 acres were harvested and 1,551 tons of sugar extracted.

At the end of March, 1920, there were in the State 513,500 horses, 1,631,120 head of cattle. 14,422,745 sheep, and 186,810 pigs. The wool produced in the season 1913-14 amounted to 106,833,690 lbs., valued at 4,032,954/. ; in 1914-15 to 95,406.867 lbs., valued at 3,410,913*. ; in 1915-16 to 82,330,198 lbs., valued at 4,066,003* ; in 1916-1; 94,845,024 lbs., valued at 5,927,814/; in 1917-18 to 105,424,682 lbs., valued at 6,410,077/., and in 191S-19 to 126,647,061 lbs, valued at 7,621,413/. The quantity of butter produ-ed in 1918 was 66,240,4(3 lbs.

At the end of 1919 the area of State Forests in Victoria was 4,459,600 acres. The amount of timber sawn in 1918-19 in Victoria Saw Mills from Victorian logs was 91.510,000 super, feet valued at the mill at 503,470/.