{"title":"THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN FEED AND QUANTITY AND KIND OF WOOL PRODUCED","authors":"A. E. Henderson","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1102","url":null,"abstract":"Among our domestic animals the sheep has an outstanding virtue; if required to, it can live and produce, at least wool, on the most ' sparse and inhospitable grazings, and because of this ability it has always tended to be relegated to the less favourable environments for plant and animal growth. On the other hand, as we well know, it can, when given the opportunity, produce at high levels on the highly productive pastures that are a feature of our modern farming.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"149 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115547540","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 PRODUCTION ESTIMATES BY MEASURES OTHER THAN CUTTING","authors":"P. B. Lynch, N. Mountier","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1099","url":null,"abstract":"We can distinguish two basic items about grassland that require measurement or assessment, namely (1) production and (2) botanical composition. Each has its own problems of evaluation. For the purposes of this paper we are concerned with production rather than with the species composition of pastures, although it may be difficult at times to consider one without the other. Production obviously depends to a considerable degree on the species present. Methods of assessing changes in production also assess the effect of changes in composition.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"286 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1959-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131958511","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 IMPROVEMENT IN LOW ALTITUDE TUSSOCK AND SCRUB-LAND","authors":"H. Duff","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1086","url":null,"abstract":"The tussock grasslands and scrub-infested areas of the South Island vary considerably, according to altitude, climatic factors of rainfall, temperature, and wind, and the influence of mankind. To appreciate fully the theme of this paper a brief description of the locality, soil type, and ecology of the particular district will be helpful in evaluating the problems and the methods adopted to bring about an improvement in fertility and production. The area known as Traquair, Lee Stream, Wehenga, and Hindon represents some 300,000 acres and is situated 25 to 40 miles by road in a north to north-westerly direction from Dunedin. Broadly speaking it is an inland plateau bounded by the Maungatua Mountains in the south, the Lammermoor Range in the west, Deep Stream in the-north, and the Taieri River and Silver Peak Mountains in the east. Abrupt medium to deep gullies and gorges with extensive flat tops are characteristic of the topography of the country, which in altitude varies from 600 to 1,500 ft above sea level. Shelter trees are restricted to homestead plantings and small shelter belts.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130839448","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 IMPROVEMENT AT INVERMAY","authors":"G. Holmes","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1091","url":null,"abstract":"Invermay Research Station has a total area of 1,300 acres and may be divided, like Gaul, into three parts: First-class Soil: About 200 acres flat, fertile, recent alluvium. Second-ciass Soil: About 400 acres undulating, yellow-grey earth, shallow, overlying clay derived from phonolite. T h i r d - c l a s s S o i l : About 700 acres, ridgy, some as above, some more recent and more basic volcanic soil, usually with boulders. About 400 acres of the last-mentioned have been reclaimed from gorse and scrub, mainly by use of the swamp plough wherever it could be taken, leaving the steepest gullies in manuka and the stony outcrops in gorse.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132569284","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":"EFFECT OF MANAGEMENT ON PASTURE COMPOSITION","authors":"S. Maclean","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1085","url":null,"abstract":"The type of management a pasture is given determines the botanical composition of the sward and in turn influences the yield of herbage produced. Of the various aspects of pasture management, the two factors that bring about the most rapid changes in composition are length and height of grazing and chemical spraying of pastures.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132862193","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 OTAGO","authors":"A. Elliott","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1090","url":null,"abstract":"The land district of Otago, comprising the counties of Waitaki, Waihemo, Waikouaiti, Taieri, Peninsula, Bruce, Clutha, Tuapeka, Lake, Vincent, and Maniototo, contains the greatest variations in climatic conditions, topography, and soil types. Consequently, a detailed description of. the farming systems practised in each of the many categories into which land use may be subdivided is beyond the scope of this paper, which will deal broadly with a description of farming in the principal areas of the region. The fascinating story of settlement, which commenced over 100 years ago, has been published in several books freely available to all interested and some of the results from earlier practices, now recognised to be damaging to soil fertility and stability, will be discussed in a later section. The total acreage in occupation is over 8 million and this extends from the intensively farmed alluvial plains at sea level to the summer grazed natural grasslands at altitudes of over 5,000 ft.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"820 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121718110","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":"ECONOMICS OF LAND DEVEPOPMENT IN OTAGO","authors":"N.M. Peryman","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1088","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1088","url":null,"abstract":"I feel that I must make it quite clear right from the start that I am neither an economist nor a scientist. The only aspect of economics that I understand is that of profit or loss; and of science, its practical application to meet the present needs of the individual farmer.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130533989","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":"FIELD DAY (5 articles)","authors":"W.J. Reid and Sons, A. Traquair","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1089","url":null,"abstract":"Description of Property The holding can be roughly divided into 4 blocks: 1. The clean, better class lowland around the homestead; 2. A belt of scrub-infested country; 3. A large clean area of fescue and browntop with tussock; 4. Snow tussock, summer country of the Maungatua Range. Soils are mainly derived from micaschist, but as a result of weathering and leaching are deficient in lime, phosphate, and molybdenum.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126504273","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":"FARM SHELTER FOR EXPOSED ROLLING COUNTRY OF OTAGO","authors":"C. H. Brown","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1095","url":null,"abstract":"Conditions of frequent cold south-westerly airstreams accompanied by gale force winds are a feature of the winter climate of Otago. Growth of pasture is not checked to the same degree, stock do not lose condition, nor is the requirement for feed so great where effective shelter has been provided.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"458 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123884403","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":"THE SOILS OF OTAGO AND THEIR PROBLEMS","authors":"J. Raeside, E. Cutler","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1958.20.1094","url":null,"abstract":"The soil resources of Otago present a challenge to agriculture, for, although much has already been done to promote their development through the efforts of the Department of Agriculture and the imaginative and enterprising work of many farmers, their potentialities are still far from exhausted. Hitherto only the best soils of Otago have been developed to a high productive level, and most of the soils are at a stage of development far below their capacity. As agricultural development expands and becomes more diverse limitations imposed by the nature of the soils will become of overriding importance, and the pattern of agriculture will have to be more carefully adjusted to the soil pattern of the province.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1958-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129350798","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}