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… of the tussock into paddocks of grain, root crops, and English grasses. The construction of water races allowed … were building up flocks of specialised mutton breeds of sheep – Shropshires, Leicesters, Lincolns, and Romneys – and Canterbury farming was thus able to take ready advantage of the new …
… slow progress. By 1855 some 3,600 acres were in cultivation and only 27,000 acres had been purchased. As in the other … Men of capital preferred to invest their money in sheep and run them on cheaply rented pasturage lands beyond … the last runs were being claimed around the western lakes. Sheep numbers had grown from 60,000 in 1855 to 700,000 in …
… hill country. Without its development large areas of hill land would no doubt have gone out of production and many farms would have become uneconomic units. The full … supplementary crops and hay to feed the greater number of sheep and cattle during periods of feed shortage. Better …
… on 20 May 1773, set ashore at Queen Charlotte Sound a ram and a ewe – the survivors of six sheep brought from Cape of Good Hope. The attempted … GENERAL MANAGEMENT AND BREEDS …
… soils include the soils from less common parent materials and those influenced by high ground water; and the azonal … In the drier areas they are used for intensive arable farming and sheep farming and, near Oamaru, for poultry … Intrazonal and Azonal Soils …
… Societies for the improvement of agriculture and for the exhibition of livestock and machinery have long … formally organised; in the South Island, a show of merino sheep at Rangitata in 1859 led to the formation of the … subject, in fact, that affected the farmer and farming directly or indirectly. Politics were avoided and …
… The western part of the region consists of more broken and higher country, with a lower density of population, and is devoted largely to sheep farming. It extends from Kawhia and Raglan Harbours in … Mining and Power …
… occupied a central position in the development of New Zealand. Indeed, settlement was incidental to trade, the first … in the 1830s, of shore whaling stations, usually with a farm for self-sufficiency in food. Such farms, and the … an economy based on extractive industries to one based on farming. The beginning of systematic colonisation in 1840 …
… the Province of Nelson comprised the whole of the South Island north of the Hurunui River to its source, thence along a … area has always been characterised by small-scale intensive farming. The outlying areas have had only tenuous economic … province. The Amuri was early parcelled into a few large sheep runs and had few people until the end of the …
… the back-country counties. In Tawera, Oxford, Amuri, Kawai, and Geraldine counties it would seem that the increases have … whereas in Waipara and Cheviot counties the actual farming districts appear to have shown an increase in … of the farming areas is reflected by the increases in the sheep (43.69 per cent) and breeding ewe (51.64 per cent) …