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… The indigenous vegetation of New Zealand is considered to be unique as it consists of a very … felling of trees for timber, and clearing the land for farming. In our forests there were very great numbers of … long curved bill of the female; the kea, accused of killing sheep, and the wry-billed plover are in some districts in …
… 1853, the Province of Wellington comprised all the North Island between Cook Strait and the thirty-ninth parallel, … Clifford, and Frederick Weld pioneered the driving of sheep by the very difficult route along the coast on to land … subdivision of the runs and the foundation of dairy farming on the plains. The provincial towns have grown out …
… The chain of events started on a farm by the application of artificial fertilisers is quite a … bacteria which grow in nodular colonies on their roots and have the ability to fix atmospheric nitrogen. The host … of agriculture, soil fertility is enhanced and profitable farming at high levels of production usually achieved. These …
… At the beginning of 1858 two young men, Robert Ewart Shaw and Walter Savill, and several others left the employ of … to Auckland by way of Sydney than directly by coast. Farming was in the pioneering stage and, at the beginning of 1858, livestock numbered little more than 1,000,000 sheep and some 110,000 head of cattle. Imports were valued …
… area was concentrated at bay heads in the Sounds and on the Kaikoura coast, but at the time of European … bush burning on the hills and the grazing of Romney sheep. In the past 50 years dairying and intensive fat-lamb … it has been a stronghold of small- and medium-scale mixed farming. Before 1914 much barley, chaff, and potatoes were …
… The “downland” areas give an impression of trim, close-cropped … prosperity, an impression supported by the density of sheep and breeding ewes per acre of occupied land. Fat-lamb …
… New Zealand emerged from the war with the pattern of her economy … of mortgage commitments. In such circumstances the farming community looked about for a solution for its ills; … development of the country continued. Though the number of sheep continued to rise gradually, the most marked progress …
… New Zealand beef farming does not follow the overseas pattern. It is a major project only in restricted areas unsuitable for sheep. Unimproved swampland subject to periodic flooding, … New Zealand Pattern …
… Cattle were early arrivals in New Zealand. S. Marsden (1765–1838), the founder of Christian … introduction into Canterbury, and the development of cattle farming, is typical of, if somewhat earlier than, that in … in 1841. The Deans brothers, who settled the abandoned farm and named it Riccarton in 1843, imported some 61 head …
… Bowen, Walter Godfrey appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. p> Walter Godfrey Bowen was born … He later studied accountancy. After an active life in farming, the timber business, and shearing, he specialised … In 1953 he established a world record by shearing 456 sheep, full wool, in nine hours. He was appointed chief …