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- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF Agriculture
- CHAPTERThis Month's Cover
- CHAPTERNew Zealand Department of Agriculture
- CHAPTERSOUTHBRIDGE IN CANTERBURY
- ILLUSTRATION[V. C. Browne photo
- CHAPTERA Time for Reinvestment in the Land
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- CHAPTERCARE OF LIVESTOCK DURING JANUARY
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- CHAPTERThe Advantages of Stockpiling Lime
- ILLUSTRATIONThe machine which conveys the lime from the railway wagons to the stockpile.
- ILLUSTRATIONA 3000-ton lime stockpile, which it is intended to build up to 10,000 tons.
- ILLUSTRATIONTwo spreaders each distributing I ton per acre. That on the right is using dry lime and that on the left wet lime
- ILLUSTRATIONA spreader distributing wet lime.
- CHAPTERFARMING IN CANTERBURY
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- ILLUSTRATION[From the 1900 jubilee number of the “Weekly Press”, Christchurch. The foundations of the Christchurch Cathedral were...
- ILLUSTRATIONAs roads were improved in the 1860's and 870's the lumbering bullock teams gave way to draught horses.
- ILLUSTRATIONNew Zealand Railways photograph. The south express, pulled by two locomotives, at Timaru in 1885. The first through t...
- ILLUSTRATIONJohn Grigg of Longbeach, which was famous for both its crops and its stock. John Grigg was one of the first to realis...
- ILLUSTRATIONReapers and binders at work on the New Zealand and Australian Land Company's Pareora estate, where some notable crops...
- ILLUSTRATIONDuncan Cameron of Springfield, near Methven, was one of the largest "bonanza" wheat producers. He was one of the firs...
- ILLUSTRATION[From the 1900 jubilee member of the “Weekly Press”, Christchurch. One of the early Christchurch flour mills. By 1881...
- ILLUSTRATIONCharles Norman Orbell, manager of the New Zealand and Australian Land Company's Levels estate from 1876 to 1904. He d...
- ILLUSTRATIONRight-A 4-horse portable threshing machine packed for transport. Below The same machine assembled for work.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe Bell's "Improved Reaper", which was used on the Deans estate in the 1850's.
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft—As the Bell's "Improved Reaper" was a cumbersome machine, frequent changing of horses was necessary.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe McCormick harvester and wire binder used in the late 1870's and the early 1880's.
- ILLUSTRATIONAfter Pirie's invention of the 3-wheeled plough in 1867 manufacturers soon adopted the principle and made their contr...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe early blacksmiths soon became makers of farm implements and by the end of the last century the manufacture of far...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe first steam threshing machinery used in Canterbury was generally introduced in the 1870's. It consisted of a port...
- ILLUSTRATIONLincoln College in 1880, the year if was opened. The need for agricultural education was realised early in Canterbury...
- ILLUSTRATIONW. E. Ivey, the first Director of Lincoln: College. He vigorously criticised the predatory style of farming character...
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- CHAPTERWairarapa Training Farm of Instruction
- CHAPTERTHE HOME GARDEN IN JANUARY
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- ILLUSTRATION[Green and Hahn Ltd. photo. If onion bulbs are fully grown, ripening may be induced by bending the tops. This is reco...
- ILLUSTRATION[Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd. photo. The quality of kohlrabi is best when plants, are grown. to mature in autumn ...
- ILLUSTRATIONMethod of protecting seedlings by use of sacking "tent".
- ILLUSTRATION[Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd. photo. As.good quality in sweet corn is obtained for only a short period in a plant...
- ILLUSTRATION, [Photo News Ltd. photo. Beetroot is a useful vegetable at any period of the year, and to have good-quality bulbs av...
- ILLUSTRATION[Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd. photo. Banana squash grows similarly to the pumpkin. It is of good flavour and dry ...
- ILLUSTRATION[Photos by Green and Hahn Ltd. (left) and Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd. (right). New Zealand spinach (left) and ta...
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- CHAPTERMETEOROLOGICAL RECORDS FOR OCTOBER
- CHAPTERGRASSLAND CONFERENCE IN SOUTHLAND
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- CHAPTERQueensland Nut Tree Culture in New Zealand
- CHAPTERPRIMARY PRODUCTION MONTHLY REVIEW
- CHAPTERUSES OF PINE TREES ON THE FARM
- ILLUSTRATIONSeeds of some of the more common species of pines.
- ILLUSTRATIONPinus radiata being cut up for firewood.
- ILLUSTRATIONGENERAL APPEARANCE: Heavy crowned; pyramidal when young but loses its lower branches early; foliage thick and lightis...
- ILLUSTRATIONPinus radiata planted as first shelter for Lawson's cypress. They are beginning to crowd out the cypresses and should...
- ILLUSTRATIONA trimmed hedge of Pinus radiata planted 4ft. apart and topped each year to 8ft.
- ILLUSTRATIONPinus radiata with eucalypts provides good high shelter, but this belt needs a hedge to prevent draughts.
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft-A tall single-row windbreak of Pinus radiata which is open and draughty at the base. Rightßoxthorn filling up be...
- ILLUSTRATIONThese Pious radiata were too near power lines and . had to. be cut back so hard that they died.
- ILLUSTRATION[Green and Hahn Ltd. photo. Pine trees planted in lines to kill out gorse.
- ILLUSTRATIONPine trees planted too close to a house are dangerous,
- ILLUSTRATION[Photo News Ltd. photo. GENERAL APPEARANCE: Wide crowned; bushy and branched when young, but soon loses its lower bra...
- ILLUSTRATIONGENERAL APPEARANCE: Bushy with a compact head; branches horizontal or drooping, and in some conditions retained to th...
- ILLUSTRATION[Photo News Ltd. photo. GENERAL APPEARANCE: Open, rather narrow crown; foliage dark bluish green and sparse. MATURE H...
- ILLUSTRATIONGENERAL APPEARANCE: Pyramidal, with regular branching which is retained well; heavy,, blue-green foliage at the ends ...
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- CHAPTERSeed Harvest and Crop Production
- CHAPTERPollination: The Importance of Honey Bees
- ILLUSTRATION[Robertson photo.
- ILLUSTRATION[Robertson photo. Honey bee with loaded pollen baskets. It has visited many flowers to gather such a load of pollen.
- ILLUSTRATION[Robertson photo. Short-tongued bumble bee (Bombus terrestris) working through a hole bitten in the base of a red clo...
- ILLUSTRATION[Robertson photo. Long-tongued bumble bee [Bombus ruderatus) working red clover in orthodox manner. This species has ...
- ILLUSTRATION[Robertson photo. Honey bees require much, pollen and store large quantities in their combs.
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- CHAPTERDAIRY PRODUCE GRADED FOR EXPORT DURING OCTOBER
- CHAPTERHerbage Production of Short-rotation Ryegrass
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- CHAPTERReducing Egg-production Costs on Poultry Farms
- CHAPTERPOISONOUS PLANTS IN NEW ZEALAND
- CHAPTERSHOW DATES
- CHAPTERPACKING APPLES
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- CHAPTERDealing with American Foul-brood
- CHAPTERCountry Slaughterhouse Piggeries
- ILLUSTRATION[Cinestyle Photo Service photo. Country slaughterhouse piggery layout. In the foreground is the boiler house with sto...
- ILLUSTRATION[Cinestyle Photo Service photo.
- ILLUSTRATION[Cinestyle Photo Service photo. Stem-jacketed pans for rendering tallow. All shop scraps, except bones, are put throu...
- ILLUSTRATION[Cinestyle Photo Service photo. Cooking tank (right). It has been moved by means of skids from the trolley (left) on ...
- ILLUSTRATION[Cinestyle Photo Service photo. Smail boiler used for generating steam; such boilers are very economical in the use o...
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- CHAPTERThe Annual Clean-up in the Household Poultry Pen
- ILLUSTRATION[Fraser Niederer photo. Exterior and interior walls of concrete poultry housing can be whitewashed, but creosote is b...
- ILLUSTRATION[Fraser Niederer photo. Neither tools nor labour should be spared in a thorough annual clean-up of the poultry house ...
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove—If the birds require six rows of perches, the housing is overcrowded. This illustration shows how pullets shoul...
- CHAPTERSummer Pruning of Shrubs in the Flower Garden
- ILLUSTRATION[Douglas Elliott photo. The dwarf mock oranges (Philadelphus) benefit considerably from severe annual pruning.
- ILLUSTRATION[Douglas Elliott photo. Genista species and varieties such as this bush of G. sagittalis, become unsightly if they ar...
- ILLUSTRATION[Douglas Elliott photo. Amelanchier oblongifolia is a hardy deciduous shrub which bears white flowers in spring and t...
- ILLUSTRATION[Douglas Elliott photo. Berberis darwini,an evergreen species, bears orange-yellow or red flowers, followed by plum-c...
- ILLUSTRATION[Douglas Elliott photo. Cercis siliquastrum (the Judas tree) is a hardy deciduous tree which bears rosy lilac flowers.
- ILLUSTRATION{Douglas Elliott photo. Cyclamen are extremely useful winter-flowering plants for the house. Their culture is describ...
- ILLUSTRATIONDahlias grown for show blooms may need to be fed with weak liquid manure. Feeding plants grown for normal border disp...
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- ILLUSTRATION[Photo News Ltd. photo. One way of applying dust to plantsfor example, sulphur to roses-is to place some of the mater...
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- CHAPTERSTORING TABLE LINENS
- CHAPTERField Survey of Housing in Vincent County
- ILLUSTRATION[Ellis Dudgeon photo. Cob, or tamped earth, is a durable building material, as is shown by this cob house, about a ce...
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- ILLUSTRATIONThe earliest houses in Vincent County were often built to this plan, sometimes in two stages, two rooms at a time. Us...
- ILLUSTRATIONThis was a development of the first plan. The back entrance still led directly into the kitchen, but a front entrance...
- ILLUSTRATIONTwo more rooms added to the basic design.
- ILLUSTRATIONBy the time this kind of house appeared with a straight hall and four, five, or six rooms, windows were larger and ch...
- ILLUSTRATION[V. C. Browne photo. Alexandra, in Vincent County, is one of the focal points of Central Otago's flourishing fruit-gr...
- ILLUSTRATIONSun-dried bricks, such as these stacked awaiting use, are a local building material which was used in the earliest da...
- ILLUSTRATION[National Publicity Studios photo. frenchman s Point, on the Clutha River, as seen from the main street of Alexandra.
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- CHAPTERTHE MUSEUMS OF NEW ZEALAND
- ILLUSTRATIONThe No. I room of the Otago Early Settlers' Museum. The collection of hundreds of portraits of early pioneers on the ...
- ILLUSTRATION[From the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collection. Built of wattle and daub in 1848, this house was typica...
- ILLUSTRATION[From the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collection. This view of Dunedin from Little Paisley in the 1850's ...
- ILLUSTRATION[From the Alexander Turnbull Library photographic collection. The brigantine Deborah, which conveyed Frederick Tucket...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe inferior of the kitchen in the model of a pioneer's cottage set up in the museum. The. cottage is 3 roomed and th...
- ILLUSTRATIONA mural painting of a mill forms an appropriate setting for a large water-wheel displayed in the Pioneers' Hall of th...
- ILLUSTRATIONTwo exhibits of early transport which belong to the museum. Left—A Cobb stagecoach. Right Josephine, Otago's first ra...
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- CHAPTERMarking School Clothes and Equipment
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- CHAPTERSavoury and Sweet Dishes from a Pressure Toaster
- ILLUSTRATIONCooking1 toasted pies in a pressure toaster.
- CHAPTERFarm Life in Katikati’s Early Days
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- CHAPTERPlastic Holder for Washing Blue
- ILLUSTRATION[Sparrow Industrial Pictures Ltd. photo.
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