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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 69

Agricultural Returns at Census Periods

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Agricultural Returns at Census Periods.

Land under Crop. Horses. Cattle. Sheep. Pigs.
1851 29,140 2,890 34,787 333,043 16,214
1858 140,988 14,912 137,204 1,523,324 40,734
1861 226,621 28,275 193,285 2,761,583 43,270
1864 382,655 49,469 249,760 4,937,273 61,276
1867 676,909 65,715 312,835 8,418,579 115,104
1871 1,140,279 81,028 436,592 9,700,629 151,460
1874 1,651,712 99,261 494,113 11,674,853 123,741
1878 3,523,277 137,753 578,430 13,069,338 207,337
1881 4,768,192 161,736 698,637 12,385,035 200,083
1886 6,845,177 187,382 853,358 16,564,295 277,901
1889 15,468,860

The earlier figures are taken from those prepared for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition. The sheep are the number certified to by the Live Stock branch of the Crown Lands Department, as existing in the colony in May, 1889.

The next census will probably be taken in the early part of the year 1891, when the British Census will also be taken, and it appears not improbable that the people of the Empire may be numbered simultaneously all over the world.

The statistics of the census periods are of course fuller than those of the years when no census is taken, and from the returns of 1886 several matters can be gleaned that cannot found in the years following.