This Month's Cover
Though aerial topdressing has been done fairly extensively only in the last 3 years, it is estimated that in the 12 months up to April 1953 about 1,000,000 acres were treated. Many problems, chief among them that of securing an aircraft designed for the Work of topdressing under New Zealand conditions, have yet io be overcome, but aerial topdressing has been enthusiastically accepted by farmers, particularly those on hill country, and capably organised by air work contractors. This month’s cover shows a Tiger Moth aeroplane being loaded for aerial distribution of superphosphate at " Glencoe Station, Maraefyaltaho, Hawses Bay.
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 Industry ... J. E. Mcllwaine Animal Research . . . . J. F. Filmer Dairy . . . . . . . . H. A. Foy Extension . . . . P. W. Smallfield Horticulture . . . . A. M. W. Greig Marketing . . . . K. B. Longmore Editor: G. J. Neale
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 87, Issue 1, 15 July 1953, Page 1
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157This Month's Cover New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 87, Issue 1, 15 July 1953, Page 1
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