{"title":"IMPROVEMENT OF LOW ALTITUDE TUSSOCK COUNTRY IN CENTRAL OTAGO","authors":"T. Ludecke","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1116","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes the research work undertaken in the last two and a 'half years into the improvement of run country in Central Otago. The district covers 4,500 square miles of the Clutha and Taieri catchments stretching from the Lakes in the west and Miller's FIX and Middlemarch in the east. About twothirds of the area lies above 1,500 ft and is the run or pastoral country.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122866109","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":"SHEEP'S FEET AND PASTURE PLANTS","authors":"D. Edmond","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1111","url":null,"abstract":"In the early days biologists viewed Southland with interest, if with some concern, but as time passed European plants and animals were found to be well suited to the environment. With the help of technical advice, man with his ingenuity and energy continues to transform tussockland, forest, and swamp. With the pastures which he has developed, a farming pattern has evolved, of high stocking rate and complete utilisation of herbage, which is conventionally accepted as being first class. Is it good enough?","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129962499","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":"TRENDS IN PASTURE CONSERVATION","authors":"J. Murray","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1117","url":null,"abstract":"Problems of storing pasture from periods of ample growth to periods of little or no growth, whether it be in winter or a droughty summer, have always been with farming communities all over the world. Haymaking, for example, goes back to antiquity when the origin of natural drying has been lost in the mists of the past; maybe in the same way as it is often lost in the mists of today.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127382712","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":"REPORTS BY SPONSORED DELEGATES TO THE 8th INTERNATIONAL GRASSLAND CONGRESS","authors":"A. Various","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1112","url":null,"abstract":"Some of the Association's sponsored delegates to the Congress presented reports to the conference and expressed thanks for the privilege of attending the Congress","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126574709","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 PASTURE PRODUCTION AND UTILlSATlON IN SOUTHLAND","authors":"A. J. Harris","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1120","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1120","url":null,"abstract":"The Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics for the 1958-59 season show that at 31 January 1959 the total number of cattle per IO0 sheep shorn in Southland was 3, while in the North and South Auckland districts combined the figure was 42. This paper will, then, refer to pastures used for grazing sheep.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114601541","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":"IMPROVEMENT OF TUSSOCK GRASSLANDS OF SOUTHLAND","authors":"W.O. Sly","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1113","url":null,"abstract":"The tussock grasslands of Southland play an important role in the agriculture of the province, both directly and indirectly. This paper aims therefore to focus some light on the improvement of the tussock grasslands in relation to run management and soil and water conservation. The area under discussion is in the northern Southland district and comprises the Eyre, Takitimo, GZvie, 'Thm-,- a& Livingston Mountains- The h& w+r catchments of the main river systems of Southland originate in this higher altitude tussock country, with the Aparima commencing in the Takitimos, the Oreti and Mataura in the Eyre, the Waikaia in the Garvies, and the Mararoa in the Thomson and Livingston Ranges.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122335690","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":"TRACE ELEMENTS IN RELATION TO ANIMAL HEALTH IN SOUTHLAND","authors":"E. Andrews","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1960.22.1115","url":null,"abstract":"In the \"New Zealand Meat Producer\" for May 1960 R. H. Bcvin discusses the remarkable development of the sheep industry in Southland. As he puts it, \"40 years ago there were roughly 1 t million sheep in the Southland Land District. Today there are 53 million\". He goes on to trace the change from a farm economy-which-in-l~9~~~d~pendcd~ largelym oat crops and dairying to one which is now predominantly concerned with the production of fat lambs for export. The Southland-Wallace Plain carries one of the greatest sheep concentrations in the world. Lambs killed at the four Southland freezing works each year now top the 3 million mark","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1960-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131180874","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":"EVALUATION OF ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF AERIAL TOPDRESSING","authors":"C. Tebb","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1110","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1110","url":null,"abstract":"To begin with I would like to say a few words about the title of this paper. It is exactly as given to me by the Grassland Association, \"Evaluation of Economic Aspects of Aerial Top-Dressing\". It is not uncommon for the deliverer of a paper to be given a subject and then to select his own angle of that subject and title it accordingly. In fact, that is the more usual procedure, and of course could quite easily have been adopted by me in this instance.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"28 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":"129487816","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 WITH RELATIONSHIP TO ANIMAL DISEASE","authors":"W. Hartley","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1101","url":null,"abstract":"At a recent conference of the New Zealand Veterinary Association Dr J. Melville, then of the Grasslands Division, Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Palmerston North, spoke on pasture improvement and its relationship to animal health and production. Dr Melville rightly stated that as no surveys had been carried out, there was no positive evidence that pasture improvement had led to an increase in disease in farm animals grazing these pastures.","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"1 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":"125870328","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":"RESULTS OF CLIMATE STUDIES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS FOR SEASONAL PRODUCTIVITY OF PASTURES","authors":"K. Mitchell","doi":"10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1959.21.1098","url":null,"abstract":"It is accepted virtually to the stage of being axiomatic that our climate has been of key importance in allowing us to develop an efficient pastoral industry","PeriodicalId":261810,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings of the New Zealand Grassland Association","volume":"10 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":"126377671","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}