The Farmer in New Zealand

Illustrations

Illustrations

Machine Shearing frontispiece
From a photograph by H. Drake, Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North.
Maoris Working in a Potato Field facing page 10
From an engraving from a drawing by de Sainson published in Dumont d'Urville's Voyage Pittoresque Autour du Monde (1839).
Pig Hunting in the Wairarapa 10
From a lithograph from a drawing by S. C. Brees published in Illustrations to Adventure in New Zealand (1845).
Repairing a Cottage (1847) 38
From a pen and ink sketch in the manuscript diary of William Bambridge in the Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington. Bambridge lived in the Auckland district.
The Deans Farm, Riccarton (1848) 38
From a pencil sketch in the manuscript diary of W. B. D. Mantell, geologist and explorer.
Threshing from the Stook facing page 76
From a photograph by the Government Tourist and Publicity Department. Until the appearance of the header harvester, this method was the most widely used.
Reaping wheat, Pembroke, Lake Wanaka 76
From a photograph by the Government Tourist and Publicity Department.
Farm-lands near Cust, Canterbury 82
From an aerial photograph by V. C. Browne.
A Jersey Herd 94
From a photograph by H. Drake, Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North.
A Butter Factory in the Waikato 94
From a photograph by H. Drake, Department of Agriculture, Palmerston North.
Unloading Lambs at a Freezing Works 106
From a photograph by J. D. Pascoe, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.
Cleared Land in the King Country 124
From a photograph by G. T. Alley.
Erosion at Tutira, Hawke's Bay 124
From a photograph by J. D. Pascoe, Department of Internal Affairs, Wellington.