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… for both regions are structurally part of the North Island eastern hill country, and stemming from this basic … by men with limited capital who engaged in small-scale farming. Now the hill country is farmed in large units for store sheep, for the topography is unsuited for dairy farming and …
… science is based. It recommended a Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, constituted as a special Department … the primary industries (fruit and fruit transport; cattle, sheep, and meat transport; economics, accountancy, and finance of farming; forestry and forest products) and envisaged the …
… Introduction In a broad sense the history of New Zealand is essentially the history of agricultural development, … the latter half of the nineteenth century on wool receipts. Sheep had been brought to the early mission stations prior … to 1840, but they were few in numbers, and large-scale sheep farming in New Zealand did not get under way until …
… attention, both on account of the ill health it causes, and also because of the great economic loss associated with … it exists as a cyst in the organs of human beings or sheep and other animals. Dogs become infected by eating raw …
… wild at one time or another: dogs, cats, goats, cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs. Polynesian dogs reached New Zealand with the Maori … on various islands for emergency food or kept on marginal farming country to control noxious weeds (mainly …
… Because of the great extent of tussock-covered plain and downland in proximity to the forests and harbours of … more than cultivate vegetable gardens. More successful farming ventures were soon established by a few enterprising … cheese and fat cattle to the Wellington market. Cattle and sheep numbers built up steadily, outstations were formed …
… occupies a small basin surrounded by hills. The North Island Main Trunk railway and the main highway between Bulls … Taihape is a commercial and servicing centre for a pastoral farming district. Store sheep and cattle are raised on the surrounding hill country. …
… those determining the distribution of dairying in New Zealand. Northern and western districts experience high summer … In such areas dairy farmers have been able to outbid sheep farmers for land. Conversely, sheep farming predominates in southern and eastern …
… stations opened in the northern part of the North Island, the establishment of grassland was a small part of self-sufficiency farming based mainly on the growing of food for humans. The … palatable grasses and herbs and was rapidly stocked with sheep, with little effort other than fencing. On much of the …
… early in 1841. He spent the next two years learning sheep farming and in March 1843 sailed for New Zealand in the schooner …