This Month’s Cover
Farmlands at Onepu on the Rangitaiki Plains, Bay of Plenty, are the subject of this month’s cover, which has been reproduced from a colour photograph by Atkinson and Finney,. In the background is Mt. Edgecumbe, one of the dominating features of the plains, which was named by. Captain Cook during his first visit to New Zealand. In its natural state much of the Rangitaiki Plains area was swamp. Since the land was developed through an extensive drainage system the rich alluvial flats have been used mainly for dairy farming and in Whakyatane County there are more than 50,000 cows in mill?.
New Zealand Department of Agriculture HEAD OFFICE: Dominion Farmers’ Institute Building, Featherston Street, Wellington. DIRECTOR-GENERAL: E. J. Fawcett ASSISTANT DIRECTOR-GENERAL: R. B. Tennent DIVISIONAL DIRECTORS: Animal Research . . . . J. F. Filmer Dairy . . . . . . . . H. A. Foy Extension . . . . P. W. Smallfield Horticulture . . . . A. M. W. Greig Livestock . . . . J. E. Mcllwaine Editor: G. J. Neale
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 84, Issue 3, 15 March 1952, Page 161
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155This Month’s Cover New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 84, Issue 3, 15 March 1952, Page 161
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