Recent importations of cocksfoot seed have led to discussions on the relative merits of the strains available for import -and both merchants and farmers have been inquiring for information on the expected, performance of the imported strains when sown in pasture mixtures in this country. Also the New Zealand. growers of cocksfoot seed are anxious to know in what way the imported strains resemble our New Zealand Certified types. Possibly the information to be given below will answer some of these questions.
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(419 KB)The value of different fertilisers in improving grasslands in New Zealand has been established in no small way by the number of observational topdressing trials carried out in many districts by the Department of Agriculture, virtually since the beginning of this century.
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(71 KB)I intend reviewing the progress made to date with chemicals for pasture weed control and to place the use of chemical weedkillers in their right perspective among other farming practices.
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(95 KB)In considering the relationship of light and temperature to the growth of grasses and clovers it is important to know the actual conditions around individual plants in a pasture. Without that information the resuits of detailed experiments in glasshouse or laboratory conditions cannot be interpreted. For light intensity little comment is needed. It is well known that considerable shading occurs within a long pasture. Shorter plants are overshadowed by tall ones, but even for those taller plants a large proportion of their leaf tissue can be in dense shade. Consequently they will also assume a pattern of growth characteristic of shaded plants.
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(311 KB)The area of the Moutere gravels amounts to 300,000 to 400,000 acres. Where it was grazeable it carried about one ewe to four acres in its natural state, running them badly at that with about 41b. of wool.
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(50 KB)As an introduction to this general discussion on the performance of pasture plants in different regions I propose to point out what pedigree strains are supposed to do. Those who follow me will show what they actually do. It remains to be seen what correlation there is between our stories. What these plants are supposed to do and what they actually do will depend very largely on the management they are given, so the function and performance of bred strains must necessarily be considered in relation to pasture management.
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(114 KB)In the 20 years between 1919 and I939 a Wairarapa hill-country farmer was able to increase the carrying capacity of a 3300-acre hill-country farm from some 4800 sheep wintered -in 1919 to some 8000 carried through the winter on the property in 1939, and this without the aid of fertilisers or the improvement of the pastures by oversowing with clovers.
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(119 KB)Nelson is a district of scenic charm. It has an equable and sunny climate and a pattern of farming as diverse, or more so, than any other part of the Dominion.
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(1568 KB)The Poverty Bay-east coast area is one of the major sources of store sheep in the North Island. Some 1,200,OOO breeding ewes are carried within the area and between 80 per cent. and 90 per cent. of lambs are tailed each year, which should give approximately 500,000 wether lambs available for disposal annually.
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(114 KB)In this paper I would like to move away a little from the usual lines .of grassland discussion and consider for a while other aspects apart from strain, manures, and grazing management
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(69 KB)For the purpose of this paper the description of soils in the Nelson district has been restricted to those in the Waimea County, particular attention being given in the paper to those soils which are used for agriculture.
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(102 KB)In a paper which Dr W. M. Hamilton presented to the annual conference of the Animal Production Society earlier this year he said that there was no technical reason why the revolution which had taken place on the ploughable lands of New Zealand should not be re-enacted on the hill lands of the North Island, although economic factors might restrict it to a lower level of intensity.
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(826 KB)With the increased interest that is being taken in the New Zealand Grassland Association, there is associated an increased need for a consideration of the origin and development of the association and its actitities.
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(521 KB)Since the advent of topdressing with phosphates the productive capacity of the Waikato has enormously increased. Similar dramatic increases have beconic evident elsewhere where much the same conditions applied.
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(130 KB)More than 13 million acres, nearly one-third of the occupied, land of New Zealand, are described, as tussock grassland, and much the greater part of these are in the South Island. Before occupation the area so classified was even more extensive, but many of the more fertile lowland valleys and plains have been successfully cultivated and sown down to improved pastures.
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(89 KB)Over a long period it has been recognised that grass is one of our most valuable crops. In the past years its real importance has not always been recognised and it was not given very mu’ch attention because other crops appeared to be of more value. The advances that have been made in plant breeding and pasture management in recent years and these. advances applied to the grass species have resulted in its becoming almost our most important crop.
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(100 KB)It would, be a serious omission on my part if I did not begin this paper with a shot of Mt. Egmont (8260ft.), which by the even spread of rainfall which it encourages playslsuch an important part in the success or’otherwise of the different pasture species in Taranaki. Bainfal l ranges from approximately 100in. at the reserve; to 40 to 50in. on the coastal farms. The area that comes within the s@ope of this paper’ extends approximately 15 to 20 miles on the northern, southern, and western slopes of Mt. Egmont and approximately 20 to 30 miles on the eastern slopes to the more marginal lands east of Stratford. I would emphasise that my paper concerns Taranaki only and dairy pastures.
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(161 KB)We learn from the Agricultural and Pastoral Statistics for 1949-50,that though the total number of cattle per 100 sheep shorn in North and South Auckland combined was 57, in Otago and Southland land districts combined there were 4. Pastures in this area, then, are more likely to be grazed by sheep than by cattle.
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(145 KB)South Auckland for this paper is that portion of the Auckland Province south. of Auckland city. The farmed areas are about 97 per cent in pasture.
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