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… The more important grass and clover seeds saved for pasture sowings are: Acres … seed. The two activities are integrated in the arable-farming programme. The acreage closed for seed each year is … before saving for seed. More often the area is grazed with sheep until the end of October or November. Grazing is light …
… Chapman, Henry Samuel appears in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography on this site. Henry Samuel Chapman was born at … July 1803, the son of Henry Chapman, a military contractor, and, later, an executive officer of the American Loyalist … Institute, and on his retirement entered into commerce and sheep farming in Central Otago until his death. He died …
… The Association The genesis of the New Zealand Company is to be found in the New Zealand Association, … turned their attention to the Wairau, a potentially rich farming district. The Company claimed it by right of … the basis of large-scale agriculture failed to materialise. Sheep, and not grain, became the key to prosperity. With the …
… following is a selected list, far from complete, of New Zealanders in the United Kingdom who have made names for … on 6 May 1901, and has led a colourful life — cow hand, sheep shearer, drover, salesman, journalist on a Dutch … then spent two years in clerical work before taking up a farm in the King Country. In 1936 he went to London, where …