{"title":"FIELD DAY","authors":"A. Various","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1984.45.2976","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1984.45.2976","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-10-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121969101","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ECOLOGY AND STATE OF THE ALPINE GRASSLANDS OF WESTLAND","authors":"M. Wraight","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1181","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1181","url":null,"abstract":"To write of tussock grasslands in Westland may seem a little strange when one usually associates tussock grassland with the mountain ranges, valleys and hills on the eastern side of the main divide. But tussock grasslands above the tree-line probably total 20% of the area of Westland. No pastoral use is made of this country. Apart from a few unsuccessful attempts to run sheep, both from the West Coast side and the Canterbury side in the 1890s no serious attempt at pastoral occupation has been made. Nevertheless,. these alpine grasslands are of extreme economic importance in watershed protection and they are as vulnerable as the forests to abuse by introduced wild animals.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"165 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127359652","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A REVIEW OF THE CAWTHRON INSTITUTE'S WORK ON PASTURE DEVELOPMENT ON PAKIHI LANDS","authors":"E. Chittenden","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1187","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1187","url":null,"abstract":"IN THE EARLY DAYS of European settlement on the West Coast, high hopes were held for farming on the pakihi lands, for here was land with no forest to be cleared before development to pastures. All that was required to gain pastoral land was to drain the swamps, sow seed and maybe some fertilizer. How right this proved to be; but the problems of drainage were not anticipated. With a high water-table perched on an impervious humus-iron pan and negligible lateral or surface drainage, the task proved discouraging to say the least, and after initial abortive attempts most of the land was abandoned by farmers.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122586799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SOME ASPECTS OF THE NODULATION PROBLEM OCCURRING IN THE WITHER HILLS","authors":"J. N. Parle","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1173","url":null,"abstract":"FOR SOME YEARS NOW, J. P. Beggs, Farm Advisory Officer at Blenheim, has been concerned with problems of establishing legumes in the hill country about Blenheim. The natural cover on this country consists of an almost pure sward made up of five species of Notodanthonia. Because of the steep nature of the country, oversowing is the only practical method of pasture improvement, and this fails because legumes do not establish adequately. The writer has been interested in this problem for some time and the following is an interim report on some factors which appear to be involved.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"105 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114356483","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"HILL PASTURE BEHAVIOUR UNDER DIFFERENT STOCKING RATES","authors":"F. Suckling","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1180","url":null,"abstract":"IN 1948, the Te Awa hill pasture research area was established, and a programme of subdivision, oversowing with legumes, and topdressing with phosphate was undertaken. As the area has now been in operation for a little over fifteen years, this is an appropriate time to take stock of the improvements that have been made.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133177128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OVERSOWN CLOVERS ON PAKIHI LANDS","authors":"R.W. Goodall","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1186","url":null,"abstract":"G. DE S. BAYLIS, Fields Instructor with the Department of Agriculture, carried out the first experiment on pakihi soils in Golden Bay at Onekaka in 1910 and established pasture following cultivation. In 1912. Baylis stated, \"The possibilities of this pakihi land have already been demonstrated and the rightly directed energy of the settlers is the one thing now needed to convert these barren lands into good pastures and farm lands\". The settlers have converted small areas into reasonable pasture during intervening years. Further research into the requirements of these soils has been carried out by the Cawthron Institute.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114808994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"FARMING IN WESTLAND","authors":"J. Lockhart","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1182","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1182","url":null,"abstract":"THE farmable lands of Westland are oases set in a much larger area of marginal and unfarmable soils, backed by a still larger area of rock and snow. In the Westland land district, approximately 345,000 acres (8.3%) of the land is farmable; 377,000 acres (8.5%.) can be described as marginal - giving that word a generous meaning - and the balance, 3,394,OOO acres (83% ) is considered entirely unsuited to farming. This is well illustrated in a map showing the farmable areas which accompanies a report prepared by the N.Z. Department of Lands and Survey ( 1956). This excellent publication is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the problems of this region, though the area under survey included Karamea, Buller, Inangahua and only part of Westland land district.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114948710","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PASTURE ESTABLISHMENT PROBLEMS AT TE ANAU","authors":"N. Cullen","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1176","url":null,"abstract":"THE Lands and Survey Department began land development in the Te Anau district in 1953 when about 63,000 acres of land including Lynwood Station were acquired. Other blocks were added at a later date, bringing the total area to approximately 148,000 acres.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116236614","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"POPULATIONS OF RHIZOBIA IN NEW ZEALAND SOILS","authors":"R. Greenwood","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1179","url":null,"abstract":"ALTHOUGH LEGUMES are of prime importance in New Zealand pastures, the number of species involved is small, and is restricted almost entirely to the genera Trifolium (the clovers), Medicago (lucerne and other medics), and Lotus. These three genera form nodules with three separate groups of rhizobia (root nodule bacteria) with no effective crossnodulation between them. Also, within any one of these groups of rhizobia, there are numerous strains. These may differ in a number of respects, but in particular they differ in the range of species with which they are effective in fixing nitrogen. Thus, among clover rhizobia, one strain may be effective on white (Trifolium repens L.) and red clovers (T. pratense L.) but not on subterranean clover (T. subterraneum L.), a second strain effective on subterranean, weakly effective on red and ineffective on white clover, and a third strain effective on all three species.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"89 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132515535","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"PELLETED INOCULATED LEGUME SEED","authors":"A. Hastings","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1174","url":null,"abstract":"IN NEW ZEALAND extensive areas of new land are being sown to pasture each year. In many of these areas the soil does not contain the 'beneficial rhizobial bacteria which nodulate the roots of common pasture legumes. In some cases, if rhizobia are present in the soils they are only in low numbers ; also many strains present in the soils are not effective on all clovers being sown. This deficiency can be corrected by the cheap, simple procedure of seed inoculation. However, if full value is to be obtained from inoculation, the seed must be sown under conditions which favour the survival of the applied bacteria. Provided inoculated seed is sown promptly into a well-prepared seedbed and adequately covered, excellent results will be obtained. However, several practical problems at times make this difficult. With land development now largely confined to more difficult soils and situations, inoculated seed may have to be held after inoculation, is sometimes sown into dry soil under dry conditions, and is frequently broadcast without adequate covering. In such circumstances, there is a gradual desiccation and death of the bacteria. Sometimes when sowing inoculated seed it is an advantage to be able to sow the seed with acid superphosphate, but this practice is injurious to the legume bacteria.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"5 5","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1964-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114136602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}