Open AccessINTENSIVE GRASSLANDS MANAGEMENT - FAT LAMB FARM
Author(s) -
J. M. Bruce
Publication year - 1947
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.1947.9.905
Subject(s) - swamp , foxtail , willow , wilderness , geography , agroforestry , wetland , flooding (psychology) , agronomy , environmental science , ecology , biology , psychology , psychotherapist
The farm is at Lockwood, 8 miles from Palmerston North and lies in the Taonui Basin, an area of the tianawatu swamp. country which is still subject to flooding both from the Manawatu and Oroua rivers. The 320 acres was originally flaw swamp and 16 years ago the area was without subdivisional fences or drains, I being a wilderness of stumps, blackberry, rushes and willow-heed, with patches of grass consisting of tall fescue, swamp poes, and meadow foxtail, with some ryegrass on the drier areas. The country was completely devoid of clovers and had the repltation of not being able to fatten cattle.