Contents
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- CHAPTERNEW ZEALAND Journal of Auricgulture
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- CHAPTERFARMING 50 YEARS AGO
- ILLUSTRATIONHeading photograph: Inglewood about 1910.
- CHAPTERLand and Livestock
- CHAPTERTussock Grassland
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- CHAPTERSurface-sown Grassland
- ILLUSTRATIONWhen cocksfoot was the main constituent of permanent pasture cocksfoot production was of considerable importance on B...
- ILLUSTRATIONLittle attention was paid to housing by a settler in his first years on a block of bush country . . .
- ILLUSTRATION. . . but a few years later he would aim higher and begin the building of a simple four-roomed house.
- ILLUSTRATIONIn newly opened up bush country cattle were needed to keep second growth in check. This large mob is shown crossing t...
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- CHAPTERPloghed Grassland
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- CHAPTERAnnual Crops
- ILLUSTRATIONBetween 1900 and 1910 New Zealand was self-sufficient in wheat and in some years had a surplus for export, but a year...
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- ILLUSTRATIONDr F. W. Hilgendort, of Canterbury Agricultural College, began work in 1909 on the selection of improved wheat variet...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe base on which the management of a mixed arable farm depended was the six-horse team, a fairly expensive power unit.
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- CHAPTERSheep and Cattle
- ILLUSTRATIONFlock sheep in the North Island were often of a mixed type in the first decade of this century. This mob shows Romney...
- ILLUSTRATIONStock sales have always had an important place in New Zealand farming. At this well attended sale in Taranaki two Sho...
- ILLUSTRATIONThough the walk-through shed was being widely adopted, some -farmers still built substantial structures that were dar...
- ILLUSTRATIONImported in 1902 from Britain, K.C.B. had an important influence on pedigree Jersey herds about 1910 and for many yea...
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- CHAPTERNoxious Weeds
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- CHAPTERFruitgrowing
- CHAPTERTransport
- CHAPTERMud by the Mile in the King Country
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- ILLUSTRATIONHorse transport had practically superseded the bullock team in most settled parts of the country by 1910, though bull...
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- ILLUSTRATIONOn many sheep stations on the east coast of the North Island wool was loaded on to small coastal steamers' by surf bo...
- ILLUSTRATIONEast Cape, could be loaded on to surf boats and then loaded on to a coastal freighter.
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- CHAPTERResearch and Extension
- ILLUSTRATION[Blakey Edmund Clifton, who was associated with New Zealand farming for 60 years. He was appointed Director of the Fi...
- ILLUSTRATIONJohn Lesley Bruce, Assistant Director of the Fields and Experimental Farms Division in 1910. He had previously been a...
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew Thomas William Kirk, who was appointed Biologist of the Department in 1893 and who in 1910 was Director...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe first exports of apples were shipped in 1908 and the Department of Agriculture devoted a great deal of attention ...
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- ILLUSTRATIONBefore the advent of cream separation on the farm, dairy companies established creameries in outlying districts to wh...
- ILLUSTRATIONWaerenga was the first experimental farm established by the Department, having been taken over from the Lands Departm...
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- CHAPTERFarming Prospects in 1960
- CHAPTERDevelopment of Field Experiment Techniques
- CHAPTERCrop Varieties Produced for New Zealand Conditions
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- ILLUSTRATIONAOTEA
- ILLUSTRATIONARAWA
- ILLUSTRATIONThe late R. A. Calder, who played a leading part in crop improvement. The swede variety Calder was named after him.
- CHAPTERIntroduction of Subterranean Clover and Short-rotation Ryegrass
- CHAPTERA Means of “Early and Timely Publicity”
- CHAPTERThe Path to PROFITABLE FARMING
- CHAPTERSOILS
- ILLUSTRATIONSoil sampling on virgin country.
- ILLUSTRATIONQuarrying rock phosphate at Milburn, Otago. (The "Journal", July 1913.)
- ILLUSTRATIONSir Albert Ellis, discoverer of the extensive phosphate deposits on Nauru which have proved so valuable to New Zealan...
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- ILLUSTRATIONSir Theodore Rigg, who drew attention in the "Journal" in 1929 to the possible importance of trace elements.
- CHAPTERPASTURES AND CROPS
- ILLUSTRATIONAnalysis of a gramme of a "cheap" seed mixture offered to farmers 40 years ago: 1—A gramme of the mixture. 2Weed seed...
- ILLUSTRATIONJ. H. Claridge, present Chief Advisory Officer (Agronomy), who has been closely associated with the seed certificatio...
- ILLUSTRATION[Weigel J. W. Hadfield, Agronomist, Department of Agriculture, Christchurch, who introduced the seed wheat certificat...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe official identification for certified seed.
- CHAPTERCrop Diseases
- ILLUSTRATIONSwede bulbs of the clubroot-resistant variety Wye (back row) and another variety having a little resistance (front ro...
- ILLUSTRATION[Department of Scientific and Industrial Research J. C. Neill, who developed seed treatments which resulted in the re...
- ILLUSTRATIONNo satisfactory method of controlling grass grub, New Zealand's most serious pest of pastures, was known until the in...
- CHAPTERSilage
- CHAPTERIrrigation
- CHAPTERLAND IMPROVEMENT
- ILLUSTRATIONFirst ploughing of a field at the Puwera experimental area after cutting and burning of manuka. (The "Journal", May 1...
- ILLUSTRATIONA Undeveloped gumland.
- ILLUSTRATIONDeveloped gumland.
- ILLUSTRATIONA Undeveloped pumice land.
- ILLUSTRATIONDeveloped pumice land.
- ILLUSTRATION[N.Z. Forest Service P. W. Smallfield recorded In an article on pumice land development in the May 1954 "Journal" tha...
- CHAPTERImprovement of Hill Country Grassland
- ILLUSTRATIONProspects for general improvement of fertility of hill country grassland were not good until the laborious method of ...
- ILLUSTRATIONSurface-sown hill country showing typical reversion to secondary growth.
- ILLUSTRATIONSir Bruce Levy, an outstanding figure in hill country grassland improvement work for over 40 years. He was Director o...
- ILLUSTRATIONAerial topdressing and oversowing have provided a means of raising fertility over many hundreds of thousands of acres...
- ILLUSTRATIONThe availability of selective weedkillers since the late 1940s has enabled farmers to control weeds for which up to t...
- ILLUSTRATIONSilt and debris deposited by the disastrous flood in the Esk Valley in 1938.
- CHAPTERPhormium
- CHAPTERFencing
- CHAPTERGORSE
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- ILLUSTRATIONGorse flowers and sets seeds prolifically. The seeds are spread mainly by ejection from the pod, but birds, animals, ...
- ILLUSTRATIONOne paddock had a gorse seed population of 324 seeds per square foot in the top 2 in. of soil, or over 14,000,000 see...
- ILLUSTRATIONBecause gorse seeds can be ejected up to 16 ft, gorse should be kept well clear of boundary fences.
- ILLUSTRATIONBurning is essential for gorse control on unploughable hill country,
- ILLUSTRATIONAfter a hot fire the area is bare enough to be reseeded with good strains of grasses.
- CHAPTERThe First 50 Years of Publication
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- ILLUSTRATION1910
- ILLUSTRATION1946
- ILLUSTRATION1913
- ILLUSTRATION1938
- ILLUSTRATION1944
- ILLUSTRATION1948
- ILLUSTRATION1919
- ILLUSTRATION1941
- ILLUSTRATION1945
- ILLUSTRATION1960
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew Sir Thomas Mackenzie, 1909-12.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew O. J. Hawken, 1926-28.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew C. E. Macmillan, 1932-35.
- ILLUSTRATION[Spencer Digby E. L. Cullen, 1946-49.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew W. F. Massey, 1912-15.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew G. W. Forbes, 1928-30.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew W. Lee Martin, 1935-41.
- ILLUSTRATION[National Publicity K. J. Holyoake, 1949-57.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew W. D. S. MacDonald, 1915-19.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew A. J. Murdoch, 1930-31.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P Andrew J. Barclay, 1941-43.
- ILLUSTRATION[National Publicity S. W. Smith, 1957.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew W. Nosworthy, 1919-26.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew D. Jones, 1931-32.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew B. Roberts, 1943-46.
- ILLUSTRATION[National Publicity C. F. Skinner, 1957.
- ILLUSTRATIONAn early trade advertisement which appeared in the "Journal" shortly after the first trade advertisement was publishe...
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew B. C. Aston (left) and W. M. Singleton (right) were among the best known of the "Journal's" authors and...
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew F. S. Pope, Secretary of Agriculture, 1908-19.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew A. H. Cockayne, 1936-43.
- ILLUSTRATIONR. B. Tennent, 1958.
- ILLUSTRATION[S. P. Andrew Dr C. J. Reakes, 1919-36.
- ILLUSTRATIONE. J. Fawcett, 1943-58.
- ILLUSTRATIONP. W. Smallfield, 1958-.
- ILLUSTRATIONG. Bisset, 1910-11.
- ILLUSTRATIONR. P. Connell, 1933-37.
- ILLUSTRATIONC. E. Cuming, 1911-15.
- ILLUSTRATIONH. I. Forde, 1937-42.
- ILLUSTRATIONR. H. Hooper, 1915-33.
- ILLUSTRATIONR. E. Owen, 1942-49.
- ILLUSTRATIONG. J. Neale, 1949.
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- ILLUSTRATIONThough the Aid for Britain campaign was not organised on a national basis until 1947, a succession of "Journal" cover...
- ILLUSTRATIONA process engraver examining the details of a colour photograph while etching one of the four colour blocks which hav...
- ILLUSTRATIONTOP—A compositor making final adjustment to locked-up pages before sending them for printing. CENTRE—A flatbed machin...
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