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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1951)Pastures provide the natural food supply of grazing animals and are the raw materials for the world's wool, meat and dairying industries. In an effort to increase livestock production, research workers have been developing techniques by which pasture pro ...
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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1955)In New Zealand several investigations into problems associated with unthriftiness and wastage among dairy calves has been carried out. These studies have been carried out to clarify the basic causes of calf wastage and to indicate possible means of reduci ...
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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1959)The importance of pasture and pasture plants in soil conservation in world agriculture cannot be gainsaid. Unfortunately pasture lands heir to a large number of problems such as ravages of serious erosion in most parts of the world. Thus grassland managem ...
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(New Zealand Grassland Association., 1959)Among our domestic animals the sheep has an outstanding virtue; if required to, it can live and produce, at least wool, on the most ’ sparse and inhospitable grazings, and because of this ability it has always tended to be relegated to the less favoura ...
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(New Zealand Grassland Association., 1952)This paper presents the story of the development of a farm in a foothills district, a district that achieved notoriety because of the number of abandoned farms in the middle and late thirties and the general low standard of productivity of the area. I ...
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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1952)At Rothamsted nearly a century ago, experiments were started to study the use of various inorganic fertilizers as a means of maintaining soil fertility. Important among these was the study of phosphate fertilization, and early contributions were made to o ...
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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1957)In 1946 T.G. Sewell conducted an ecological study on montane tussock grassland in the Cass, Craigieburn region and recorded the state of the vegetation. The studies recorded in this thesis were undertaken for the following purposes: 1. To compare a ...
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(New Zealand Grassland Association., 1952)The farming of foothill country is carried out over the entire length of the South Island. The area consists of those lower hills and undulating clay downs most of which are ploughable. It is situated between the plains or lowlands of the eastern coas ...
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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1952)Prolificacy in sheep, under most types of flock management, may exert an overwhelming influence on profitability. Three major classes of sheep farming are found in New Zealand, namely Extensive farming, on high country and droughty areas where wool is the ...
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(Canterbury Agricultural College, University of New Zealand, 1957)Lake Ellesmere Spit is a long narrow strip of land which divides Lake Ellesmere from the sea, lying between latitudes 43º47’ S. and 43º57’ S. It is an area of about 17,000 acres and stretches from Banks Peninsula to Taumutu a distance of some 17.3 miles. ...