This Month's Cover
A prospective Christmas dinner for a large family forms the subject of this month’s cover, which has been reproduced from a colour photograph by Tom Lloyd tafyen on a specialist turkey farm near Waimate in South Canterbury. About 2500 turkeys are raised for table annually on this farm. The gobbler is an excellent specimen of the American Mammoth Bronze breed, breeding males of which may weigh 30lb. or more. Though specialised turkey raising is not much practised in New Zealand, more interest is now being taken in raising good-quality birds for local consumption.
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 Editor: G. J. Neale .
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New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 91, Issue 6, 15 December 1955, Page 537
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148This Month's Cover New Zealand Journal of Agriculture, Volume 91, Issue 6, 15 December 1955, Page 537
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