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/.
