Open AccessREVIEW OF TOPDRESSING IN THE AUCKLAND PROVINCE
Author(s) -
P.W. Smallfield
Publication year - 1938
Publication title -
proceedings of the new zealand grassland association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1179-4577
pISSN - 0369-3902
DOI - 10.33584/jnzg.1938.7.893
Subject(s) - quarter (canadian coin) , geography , stock (firearms) , agriculture , agricultural economics , manure , agricultural science , environmental science , archaeology , agronomy , economics , biology
Topdressing is the basis of Auckland farming; of the four million acres in sown grass in the North Auckland and Auckland Land Districts, one and three--quarter million acres were topdressed in 1937 and these topdressed pastures produce the bulk of Auckland's butterfat and fat stock farm production has followed the manure bag.