Open AccessTHE IMPROVEMENT AND UTILIZATION OF TUSSOCK GRASSLANDS: A FARMER'S VIEWPOINT
Author(s) -
I.H. Wardell
Publication year - 1966
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.1966.28.1224
Subject(s) - domestic sheep reproduction , wool , tussock , zoology , clipping (morphology) , yak , mathematics , biology , geography , agronomy , archaeology , linguistics , philosophy
THE PROPERTY to be discussed comprises 4,000 acres-2,000 acres of good and 2,000 acres of light, stony flat. By 1956, the rabbit boards had the rabbit under control and stock numbers had risen from 240 ewes with a low lambing percentage, and clipping five bales of wool, to 600 ewes, 200 hoggets and a wool clip of 18 bales. Lambing percentage was 80.