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Pooling as practiced by agricultural cooperative marketing associations involves two essential activities: First, the mingling or grouping together under unified action or control of any function of production or marketing; second, the determination of the results of such group action and the allocation to each participant in the pool of his share of the sales returns, services, expenses, or risks that may arise therefrom.

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cooperative agriculture united states cooperative marketing of farm produce

National Agricultural Library - United States of America

Beef cattle production in Mississippi

1929

Templeton, George S. (George Streator)

beef cattle mississippi

National Agricultural Library - United States of America

Inbreeding in relation to egg production

1929

Hays, F. A. (Frank Alfred)

breeding poultry eggs production inbreeding rhode island red chicken

National Agricultural Library - United States of America

Potato production costs in New Hampshire

1929

Abell, Max F. (Max Flavel)

new hampshire costs potato industry

National Agricultural Library - United States of America

Fertilizers in New Zealand, 1867-1929

1929

McCaskill, L.W.

In 1869, New Zealand use 216 tons of imported fertilizers in addition to a very small amount of local bonedust. Sixty years later, the imports amounted to 324,145 tons, while local production was in the neighbourhood of 35,000 tons. The increase in phenomenal particularly over the last few years. It is now realised fairly generally that we have banked too much on “stored fertility”. It was perhaps only natural, in the first few decades of farming in New Zealand with huge areas of the soil, that farmers should be prodigal of nature’s resources. But with the exhaustion of the virgin fertility, and the ever increasing demand and competition for land, it came to be realised very gradually, that more production was required from the existing land in occupation. Also, if possible, land previously thought useless should be made to produce. The key to both problems was found in the use of fertilizers. An attempt to trace the development of such practice forms the basis of this essay. As far as can be ascertained no previous investigation has been undertaken. Some of the outstanding points resulting from the enquiry are as follows: The importance of statistics to the investigator The pioneer work of the Canterbury Agricultural College The overwhelming importance of phosphates in general and superphosphate in particular The rise of topdressing The useful work of the Department of Agriculture The decline of the importance of local production

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new zealand phosphate superphosphate fertiliser land and farm management anzsrc::079902 fertilisers and agrochemicals (incl. application) anzsrc::0701 agriculture topdressing

Lincoln University - New Zealand