{"title":"OBSERVATIONS ON LEGUME ESTABLISHMENT AND GROWTH ON ACID SOILS","authors":"A. Adams","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1172","url":null,"abstract":"THE PROBLEM of establishing plants and keeping them growing on acid soils has been present as long as agriculture has been practised, and the beneficial effect of liming materials of various kinds has been appreciated for almost as long. But while they have been appreciated, their precise mode of action has not been understood. Even with the considerable advances that have been made in understanding the \"acidity complex\" in recent years, the full solution of the complexities of plant growth on acid soils has still to be found.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"72 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":"131558865","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":"PROBLEMS OF FORESTRY AS THEY AFFECT LAND-USE FOR AGRICULTURE IN WESTLAND Part 1 : The Production Forests","authors":"G. Molloy","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1183","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1183","url":null,"abstract":"WESTLAND CONSERVANCY, which conforms to the Westland Land District boundaries, being bounded in the north by the Porarari, Otututu and Grey rivers, to the east by the main divide, and to the south by the Awarua River, contains the most important mechantable indigenous forests remaining in New Zealand. These forests are important from both the national and regional viewpoints, as with controlled cutting they will be capable of producing a major contribution to New Zealand's requirements of high quality timber and veneers for nearly one hundred years. Their value will be further enhanced in the future, as the now limited indigenous forests in other regions are depleted, and this premium will be maintained until, and even after, such time as comparable grades can be produced in sufficient quantity from well-tended exotic forests. As a strategic reserve, should any disaster befall the exotic forests, the indigenous forests of Westland also fill a valuable role. From the regional viewpoint, these production forests will provide the raw material for a locally based industry, which is now being expanded to help give stability to a regional economy where the resources available for industrial development are limited.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"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":"134029676","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":"RECENT EXPERIMENTAL WORK ON PAKIHI SOILS","authors":"P. A. Dunne, J. F. Scott","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1184","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1184","url":null,"abstract":"THE PURPOSE of this paper is to make some general comments on pakihi soils, to review experimental work on them in the Westport district, and to make some recommendations on development techniques, based on information gained by many workers over a period of some fifty years.","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":"132830897","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 MANAGEMENT FOR HIGH PRODUCTION ON DAIRY FARMS","authors":"Basil Smith","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1175","url":null,"abstract":"WITH the targets announced by the Agricultural Development Conference, it is necessary to look closely at all methods of increasing production. While there is much scope for development of poorer country, and while this is perhaps the glamour way of increasing production, a tremendous increase can come by raising the production on fully-developed dairy farms. By increasing the stocking rate of dairy cows, production levels can be raised almost overnight, and, while initial costs for extra stock may be high, returns in the first year often cover these costs. The only other cost is perhaps for extra fertilizer, but this too is quickly recovered. Three years' trial work at the Waimate West Demonstration Farm, in South Taranaki, illustrate the basic principle : \"More cows +more fertilizer = more butterfat = more cash\". This principle can be applied equally well to sheep and beef cattle properties. The Manaia farm at Waimate covers 90 acres of Egmont black loam, a freedraining derivative of Egmont andesitic ash. Rainfall varies, from 45 to 50 in. per year with dry periods common in summer and early autumn. Whole milk is produced for cheese factory supply.","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":"115868082","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":"GRAZING MANAGEMENT AND FACIAL ECZEMA","authors":"J. Lancashire, R.G. Keoch","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1177","url":null,"abstract":"IN THE late summer and early autumn, farmers in many parts of the North Island and the most northern areas of the South Island are on their guard against facial eczema. This disease, which occurs in both sheep and cattle, is virtually confined to New Zealand, although isolated outbreaks have been reported in Australia. It was first recorded in New Zealand in 1897 (Gilruth, 1897) and since then there have been several widespread and severe outbreakse. g., in 1908, 1910, 1935. 1938, 1955 and 1956. It has been known for many years that the irritation of exposed lightly pigmented skin surfaces -the typical clinical svmptoms of the disease - is the result of liver damage. The search for this liver-damaging factor (Johns and Filmer, 1960) ; the discovery of the fungus Pithomyces chartarum a.s the primary cause of facial eczema (Thornton and Percival, 1959) ; and the isolation from it of the toxin Spnridesmin (Synge and White, 1959) is well documented.","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":"116825141","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 DIFFICULT PAKIHI -WASTELAND OR FARMS?","authors":"C. During, R. Roza, D. Martin","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1185","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1185","url":null,"abstract":"THE ADDISON SOIL at Bald Hill consists of a top layer high in coarse roots, which when dry is light and porous. It will be called the sponge layer. It is of variable thickness (0 to 6 in.) and its boundary with the underlying denser, rather structureless soil is not well defined. This underlying layer is by no means without roots, but often it is drier than either the sponge above or the grit layer below. For the sake of brevity it will be called the pug layer. The grit layer consists of humus-stained quartz grit overlying deeply cemented boulders. .The whole soil - sponge, pug and grit -is 10 in. to 2 ft deep.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"82 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":"126002946","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":"CARBOHYDRATE COMPOSITION IN RELATION TO PASTURE QUALITY","authors":"R. W. Bailey","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1964.26.1178","url":null,"abstract":"THE TERM \"pasture quality\" is a measure of the ability of the pasture to provide the nutritive requirements of the grazing animal. Many plant constituents contribute to this policy but only one group, the carbohydrates, will be considered here. At present probably the only reliable and meaningful method of assessing the relative nutritive value of different pastures is by comparing actual animal production on the pastures growing under identical conditions. Such a method is, of course, unsuitable for the plant breeder during the early stages of a plant breeding programme when he needs to select for quality from a large number of plant progenies. For this reason, it is desirable that quality be defined in more specific terms so that relatively simple tests for it can be devised. Work aimed at such a definition should, of course, be based on material from pastures whose animal potential is being measured at the same time. For this reason, work at Plant Chemistry Division on the possible role of the carbohydrate constituents in contributing to nutritive value has been based largely on material from single variety ryegrass pastures on which growth rate in sheep has been the index of animal production. The present account of how the plant carbohydrate composition of pasture can influence pasture quality will be illustrated with results obtained from these trials.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"2016 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":"127502590","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 EFFECT OF MOLE DRAINAGE AND WINTER PUGGING ON GRASSLAND PRODUCTION","authors":"R. Scott","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1161","url":null,"abstract":"Drainage has been of primary importance in the development of much of New Zealand's lowland country for agricultural use. Without drainage much land is too wet to carry stock and machinery (in a physical sense) or to permit the establishment and maintenance of suitable pasture species. The necessity to drain such land if it is to be farmed at all is beyond dispute.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"161 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121089125","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":"PRESENT PROBLEMS OF HILL COUNTRY FARMING","authors":"W.A. Tocker","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1169","url":null,"abstract":"The greatest problem besetting the sheep farming industry in Taranaki is in administration and design of our land laws. They are designed to cover the whole of New Zealand and also to apply to our fattening lands as well as our hill country. The hill country of Hawke's Bay and Wairarapa needs very different treatment from the hill country of Taranaki.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129315917","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":"RECENT ADVANCES IN HAY MAKING","authors":"M. W. Cross","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1963.25.1162","url":null,"abstract":"Hay is an important crop to the New Zealand. farmer. Over 800,000 acres of lucerne and pasture are cut and conserved in this form each year compared with 180,000 acres for silage. Hay is pleasant to handle compared with silage, but requires more physical labour, as complete mechanisation from field to storage to stock has not advanced to the same degree. Also it is more vulnerable to the weather. As a result considerable effort and ingenuity have been applied to reduce both field losses and physical effort, either by endeavouring to mechanise completely present methods of conservation or by examining alternative forms.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"91 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1963-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124826864","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}