Development of farming, 1860-1900 / by Kevin Boon.
Material type: TextSeries: Boon, Kevin. Developments in New Zealand history ; Publisher: [Auckland, N.Z.] : Waiatarua Pub., 2005Description: 32 pages : illustrations (some colour), colour maps ; 29 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1869632028
- 9781869632021
- Development of farming, eighteen sixty-nineteen hundred
- Development of farming, 1860 to 1900
- 630.993 22
Contents:
Summary: Tracks the key events in New Zealand's early farming history. As land was cleared to expose arable pasture for settling farmers, livestock was imported, agriculture and dairy technology developed, wheat cropping boomed and the frozen meat trade began. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
Pioneer farmers -- Dairy farmers -- The story of Chew Chong -- Sheep stations -- The wheat boom -- The frozen meat trade.
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630.922 GOO Mountain men : stories from New Zealand's high country / | 630.922 JOY An autumn journey / | 630.972 DUN Gardens of New Spain : how Mediterranean plants and foods changed America / | 630.993 BOO Development of farming, 1860-1900 / | 630.993 FIS Practical smallfarming in New Zealand / | 630.993 GRA The smallfarming revolution : new beginnings in rural New Zealand / | 630.993 KEE Ahuwhenua : celebrating 80 years of Māori farming / |
Includes bibliographical references (page 32) and index.
Pioneer farmers -- Dairy farmers -- The story of Chew Chong -- Sheep stations -- The wheat boom -- The frozen meat trade.
Tracks the key events in New Zealand's early farming history. As land was cleared to expose arable pasture for settling farmers, livestock was imported, agriculture and dairy technology developed, wheat cropping boomed and the frozen meat trade began. Suggested level: primary, intermediate, junior secondary.
Machine converted from AACR2 source record.
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