The objective of this thesis is to gain knowledge of the economic facts concerning sheep farming in Hawkes Bay. The purpose of gathering these facts is to show where possible how management practises affect farming returns, ...

In general farming practice in New Zealand maiden awes are not mated at puberty but are carried forward unmated under conditions more or less favourable to full growth and development until the second breeding season ...

The general botany of the genus Oxalis has been reviewed and the species present in New Zealand have been described and illustrated. Observations over the growing period 1958 – 1959 and some controlled experiments enabled ...

It is a common occurrence to find recently ploughed or surface cultivated areas periodically heavily infested with seedlings of various plants. These seedlings have their source in the buried seed populations often ...

This thesis looks at the main diseases that affect oat crops in New Zealand. The thesis is divided into four parts; Part 1. Diseases of the germinating seed. Part 2. Diseases of the seedling. Part 3. Diseases of the growing ...

In a grass-clover pasture, the clover content is of considerable importance because of the dependence on symbiotic fixation for supplying the vast nitrogen needs of a highly productive sward. It is well realised that the ...

The importance of cyanogenetic glucosides in plants is dependent on the fact that when the plants are ingested the glucoside is hydrolysed, either by an appropriate enzyme or by ruminal microflora with the release of free ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lake Ellesmere is a large, shallow, non-tidal lagoon in Canterbury, New Zealand, lying to the west of Bank’s Peninsula, and separated on its southern side from the Pacific Ocean by a narrow shingle spit, through which the ...