AGRICULTURE-OATS.

AUSTRALIAN STATES, NEW ZEALAND, the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, NATAL, and the DOMINION of CANADA.

STATES, NEW ZEALAND, the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, NATAL, and the DOMINION of CANADA.

(f) The returns are for the harvest years ended prior to June of the years stated.

(g) Census figures.

Dominion of Canada:

Ontario.

Quebec.

Nova Scotia.

New Brunswick.
Manitoba.

Prince Edward Island.
British Columbia.
The N.W. Territories.

(i) Exclusive of the produce of the Vryburg division of Bechuanaland. Exclusive of the produce of Bechuanaland, which in 1896 amounted to 6,210 bushels of oats, and 238 tons of oat-hay.

AGRICULTURE.-MAIZE.

No. 41.—ACREAGE of LAND under MAIZE (and reserved for the grain-crop (a) ), in each of the

(a) i.e., exclusive of acreage mown for green fodder.

(b) For the 12 months ended March of the years subsequent to those stated.
(e) Exclusive of Northern Territory, for which there are no returns.

No. 42. QUANTITY of MAIZE PRODUCED, in each of the AUSTRALIAN

No returns.

1,963

Cannot be given.

1.004

760

No returns.

Queensland -
1,743,051 2,373,803
TOTAL COMMONWEALTH (b) 7,455,942 8,662,617
New Zealand (a)

3,077,915 2,333,553 1,824,108 2,684,925 2,391,378
9,261,922 7,744,711 9,072,699 8,606,564 8,430,899
270,282 238,864 238,746 171,661 224,539 232,890
|(e) 2,716,042 | (e)3,107,552 (2,594,482 No returns. 2,733,760 2,761,107 2,774,400
2,147,674
(c)2,422,225 (c)2,527,145 (c)3,188,796 (c)2,458,007 (c)2,752,449

3,065,333

9,386,081

611,200

503,652

1,728,231

1,152,238

AGRICULTURE.—MAIZE.

AUSTRALIAN STATES, NEW ZEALAND, the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, NATAL and the DOMINION of CANADA.

STATES, NEW ZEALAND, the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, NATAL, and the DOMINION of CANADA.

No returns.

AGRICULTURE.-POTATOES.

No. 43.-ACREAGE of LAND under POTATOES, in each of the AUSTRALIAN

No. 44.

QUANTITY of POTATOES PRODUCED, in each of the AUSTRALIAN

a) For the 12 months ended March of the years subsequent to those stated. (b) Exclusive of Northern Territory, for which there are no returns. (c) Estimated. (e) The returns are for the harvest year ended prior to June of the years stated (f) Census figures. (g) For years ended 30th June.

AGRICULTURE.-POTATOES.

STATES, NEW ZEALAND, the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, NATAL, and the DOMINION of Canada.

(e) Census figures.

Manitoba.

Prince Edward Island.

British Columbia,

The N. W. Territories.

(h) For year ended 1st December.

(1) The figures are exclusive of the acreage under sweet potatoes (batatas edulis).

STATES, NEW ZEALAND, the CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, NATAL, and the DOMINION of CANADA.

Tons.

Tons.

Australia:

30,732

56,743

168,759

167,736

28,312

31,415

6,488

4,542

49,124

88,166

163,518

171,298

Tasmania (a).

(h) Exclusive of the produce of the Vryburg division of Bechuanaland.
(Exclusive of the produce of Bechuanaland, which in 1896 amounted to 1,239 bushels.

The figures are exclusive of the produce of the acreage under sweet potatoes (batatas edulis).

16,676,447

No returns.