Crops.

Cereals of all kinds do very well over nearly the whole of the provincial district, which includes Southland. The following are the agricultural statistics:—

Total area under cultivation (Otago Provincial District) on 31st March, 1897: Land broken up but not planted, 31,313 acres; land under crop, 281,949 acres in corn, and 275,574 acres in green and other crops; land broken up and grassed 1,360,243 acres-, land grass-sown without being previously ploughed, 261,342 acres-land in garden, 3,982 acres; land in orchard, 2,003 acres; land in plantation, 4,674 acres: giving a total of 2,224,080 acres in cultivation.