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- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF Agriculture
- CHAPTERThis Month's Cover
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- TABLE_OF_CONTENTSTABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTERFarmers' Conference Week at Ruakura
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- ILLUSTRATIONHEADING PHOTOGRAPH: Demonstration point No. 9, where against a background of data on the effect of grazing management...
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- ILLUSTRATIONAt two of the demonstration points during the field day trade interests co-operated with the Station in displays. At ...
- CHAPTERThe Home Orchard in Spring
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- ILLUSTRATION[A Shell photograph Woolly aphid infection on an apple twig, showing the typical waxy threads secreted by the pest.
- ILLUSTRATION[A Shell photograph Codling moth caterpillar in an apple.
- ILLUSTRATION[Sparrow Bees visiting blossoms which have been sprayed with insecticide carry spray to the hive, unless they die bef...
- ILLUSTRATIONLemon injured by leaf-roller caterpillar.
- ILLUSTRATIONManuring in a grassed orchard. Spreading fertiliser on the sward round trees in a circular band from a foot or so fro...
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- CHAPTERHigh Degree of Control of Infertility in Rams
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- CHAPTERPartitioned Bulk Store for Air Strips
- CHAPTERPackage Bees
- ILLUSTRATIONA crate of four packages of bees being unloaded from an aeroplane.
- ILLUSTRATIONPreparing the hive to establish package bees. Above—After the floor board has been set level the queen excluder is pl...
- ILLUSTRATIONPackages which have been removed from a crate for distribution in an apiary.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe lid has been removed from the package and the bees are being dumped into the hive between the combs.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe queen cage in place. The mat has been folded for better ventilation.
- ILLUSTRATIONSuperphosphate was applied to this plot at 3cwt. per acre. Without molybdenum or tungsten the clover growth was not v...
- ILLUSTRATIONSuperphosphate plus vanadium was similar to superphosphate alone; production was low.
- ILLUSTRATIONCalcium sulphate at 1½cwt. per acre added to half the basic slag-tungsten plots, brought about healthy growth of clov...
- ILLUSTRATIONSuperphosphate plus molybdenum at 2½oz. per acre gave greatly improved clover growth and much higher production.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe addition of tungsten to the superphosphate and superphosphate plus vanadium plots gave responses almost equal to ...
- ILLUSTRATIONLeft-No molybdenum. Right—Molybdenum at 2½oz. per acre. (Basal dressing of phosphate and potash.) Molybdenised superp...
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- CHAPTERFERTILISERS FOR WAREPA SOILS
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- CHAPTERTrees on the Farm The Farm Nursery
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- CHAPTERRadio Broadcasts for Farmers during September
- CHAPTERCare of Livestock during September
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- CHAPTERSpring Topdressing and Pasture Management
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- CHAPTERPASTURE RESEARCH IN GREAT BRITAIN
- ILLUSTRATIONP. B. Lynch, Crop Experimentalist, Department of Agriculture, Wellington, the author of this article, presented a pap...
- ILLUSTRATIONPasture of S170 tall fescue and white clover at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth.
- ILLUSTRATIONPlots at the Welsh Plant Breeding Station, Aberystwyth, of bred timothy strains with different times of maturity as s...
- ILLUSTRATIONA Timothy strains trials with various rates of nitrogenous topdressing at the Grassland Experimental Centre, Muchalls...
- ILLUSTRATIONEffects of leys on soil fertility are being studied in these trials at Rothamsted Experimental Station, Harpenden, En...
- ILLUSTRATIONHereford cows and calves at Kinsham Farm near Hereford, England.
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- CHAPTERWork in the Home Garden in September
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- ILLUSTRATIONSimple frames made of 2in. x ½in. battens or similar timber over which is stretched and tacked plastic film so that t...
- ILLUSTRATIONFrame for, early production, raising seedlings, or growing halfhardy or tender plants. It should face north. The back...
- ILLUSTRATIONLow cloche formed by covering bent heavygauge wires with plastic film. Bricks, stones, or lengths of timber (A) hold ...
- ILLUSTRATIONAnother method of using plastic over heavy-gauge wire. Alternate hoops are bent as shown so that ventilation can be p...
- ILLUSTRATIONIn cool weather seedlings usually grow quite well under a cloche.
- ILLUSTRATION[Sparrow Poxes with the bottoms out and covered with glass or plastic can be used to give protection to seedlings or ...
- ILLUSTRATION[Green and Halen- Miniature glasshouse type of cloche.
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- CHAPTERGovernment Assistance to Farmers in the United Kingdom
- ILLUSTRATIONBritain has the highest tractor density in the world, I to every 57 acres.
- ILLUSTRATION[British Official Harvesting with modern machinery. Before the Second World War about 5 million acres were devoted to...
- ILLUSTRATIONBritain has long been noted for the quality of her livestock, particularly beef cattle. A view of the cattle section ...
- ILLUSTRATIONMilk production plays a very important part in British agriculture. Left-In most areas dairy cattle are housed in bar...
- ILLUSTRATION[British Official A hillside farm in Derbyshire. Some 19 million acres of land in Britain—about one-third of the tota...
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- ILLUSTRATION[British Official Bush and undergrowth being cleared with a bulldozer and gyro filler. Since 1945 much waste land in ...
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- CHAPTERMeteorological Records for June
- CHAPTERA Conservation Farming System for New Zealand Hill Country
- ILLUSTRATIONHEADING PHOTOGRAPH: Comprehensive contouring to control flooding on the Wither Hills, Marlborough. Tunnel-gully erosi...
- ILLUSTRATIONA Land on the Wither Hills, Marlborough, ruined by sheet and gully erosion. New Zealand Aerial Mapping photograph.
- ILLUSTRATIONA portion of the same country reclaimed by trees. Grass alone is incapable of stabilising the steeper and more active...
- ILLUSTRATIONAerial topdressing and oversowing have been the salvation of much eroded hill country such as this in the eastern Wai...
- ILLUSTRATIONDropping a load of four coils of wire on a drum and steel posts. Aerial dropping of fencing material on hill country ...
- ILLUSTRATIONV Aerial sowing of 2½cwt. of superphosphate, 2lb. of alsike, 2lb. of white clover, and 3oz. of molybdenum per acre ha...
- ILLUSTRATIONSheet and wind erosion and scree creep on South Island high country.
- ILLUSTRATIONA dual-purpose water control dam in Poverty Bay. Such dams can be used for storing extra stock water and to supplemen...
- ILLUSTRATIONSpaced planting of trees helps to stabilise hillsides in the Rangitikei district.
- ILLUSTRATIONA grassed waterway in North Canterbury discharging water slowly from the graded banks in the background.
- ILLUSTRATIONPreventing erosion by contour furrowing at Omakere, Hawke's Bay.
- ILLUSTRATIONPasture furrowing on the true contour, as has been done here in the Hakataramea Valley, North Otago, or on a slight g...
- ILLUSTRATIONSheet and rill erosion in South Canterbury.
- ILLUSTRATIONLight discing on the contour and pasture furrowing ensure the establishment of oversown clovers on the strip in the f...
- ILLUSTRATIONBalanced sheep and cattle grazing at Rewa, in the Rangitikei district. A rotational or deferred grazing and spelling ...
- ILLUSTRATIONy An A frame of willows and netting makes an effective debris dam for gully control.
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- CHAPTERMOLYBDENUM on New Zealand Soils
- ILLUSTRATIONA view near the Rawene-Opononi road south of Hokianga Harbour. Across the valley is a typical reverting pasture on a ...
- ILLUSTRATION[Adapted from a 1948 soil map of New Zealand of the Soil Bureau, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research.
- ILLUSTRATIONA coastal farm on Coromandel Peninsula. The soil type is Awapuku clay, a semi-volcanic soil derived from andesite and...
- ILLUSTRATIONA view from Maunu Hill toward Maungatapere Hill near Whangarei. Showers from these basaltic volcanic cones have forme...
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- CHAPTERGrow Your Own Christmas Tree
- ILLUSTRATIONDeodar cedar (Cedrus deodara).
- ILLUSTRATIONSpanish fir (Abies pinsapo).
- ILLUSTRATIONLawson's cypress (Chamaecyparis lawsoniana).
- ILLUSTRATIONDouglas fir (Pseudotsuga taxifolia}.
- CHAPTERFarm Building Construction
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- CHAPTERLighter Rates of Seeding for Playing Areas and Lawns Likely to be Satisfactory
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- CHAPTERDairy Produce Graded for Export
- CHAPTERThe Growth of Fertiliser Use in New Zealand
- ILLUSTRATIONAn old photograph of the Westfield superphosphate works, probably early this century. The wheelbarrow and shovel stil...
- ILLUSTRATIONIn superphosphate works today all the bulk fertiliser is moved and turned with large grabs, bulldozers, and conveyer ...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe tonnage of all types of artificial fertilisers used increased from about 10,000 tons a year in 1885 to 1,136,000 ...
- ILLUSTRATIONProduction of superphosphate and main types of superphosphate mixtures and compounds since 1940-41. The effects of wa...
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- ILLUSTRATION[Sparrow Rock phosphate grinding mill at a modern works.
- ILLUSTRATIONOn flat and rolling dairy and sheep land regular topdressing has been an established practice for more than 30 years.
- ILLUSTRATION[National Publicity In 1956 an eighth of the total grassland in New Zealand was topdressed by air. Much hill country ...
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- CHAPTERMattresses
- ILLUSTRATIONAbove and at right—Divan-type mattress supports, each with an innerspring mattress on top. The divans are sprung simi...
- ILLUSTRATION[Franz An inner-spring mattress. The two handles on the side provide for the grip which is necessary when the mattres...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe construction of an inner-spring mattress. The springs are covered with a layer of fibre needled into hessian, and...
- ILLUSTRATIONCross-section of a piece of cavity sheet as used for foamrubber mattresses.
- ILLUSTRATIONA rubber mattress retains its resilience and appearance through many years of constant use.
- ILLUSTRATIONCovers for foam-rubber mattresses are tight fitting to ensure a trim, sleek look and to prevent covers from slipping....
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- CHAPTERTools and Equipment for Flower Garden
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- ILLUSTRATIONSharpening a spade. The full length of the file face should be used in each stroke when sharpening garden tools. The ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONDon't leave rakes lying about; they are dangerous.
- ILLUSTRATIONThe running parts of a mower should be checked periodically. Inset- Parts to be adjusted to set the cut of a hand mow...
- ILLUSTRATIONDoes your tool shed look like this one, or do you clean and oil tools before hanging them up in their proper places?
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- ILLUSTRATIONSowing seed of annuals in vacant areas. A ½in. layer of soil is scooped to one side. The seed is then sown and thinly...
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- CHAPTERThe Importance of DARTS and TUCKS
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