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264 p. :

ill. (some col.)
Table of contents: Introduction : farming is forever -- Pre-European farming -- The new crops, implements and animals -- A lanky land -- The first European farmers -- Sheep in the middle island -- Grain and ingenuity -- Unwelcome immigrants -- Refrigerated shipping -- Each day was 'just so many trees' -- The dairy industry -- The great ideal : land of one's own -- The marriage of farming and science -- The farmer's war, and the aftermath -- Cast off after ninety years -- Food and the social revolution -- Opening the world to New Zealand milk -- The re-emergence of lamb -- The vagaries of beef -- Deer and goats -- The fall and rise of forests -- New fruit for old -- The vegetable business -- The future : a guessing game.Based on his earlier work: The farming of New Zealand. Auckland : Australia & New Zealand Book Co., 1981.