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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 66

Agriculture

Agriculture.

Allusion has been made to the area of country occupied by mountain-ranges in New Zealand, and the general position they occupy with reference to the geography of the country: it may be further stated that, with the exception of the higher alps, every part of the country is more or less adapted for settlement of some kind. A clearer idea of the value of the country and the purposes to which it is applicable is, however, obtained by the comparison of the rock-formations the decomposition of which produces the soils, as shown in the following table. From a study of this table it will be found that in the whole of the colony there are about 12,000,000 acres of land fitted for agriculture, wherever the form of surface is suitable, and about 50,000,000 which are better adapted for pasturage; but from these estimates allowance must be made for about 20,000,000 acres of surface at present covered by forest.