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Aircraft in Agriculture*
An Assessment of Their Impact on New Zealand Farming
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 04 July 2016
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Of the 
million acres occupied for farming in New Zealand approximately 
million acres or 66 per cent are too steep to be cultivated by implements. The productive capacity of much of this country can be improved by oversowing with clovers and grass seed, and the application of superphosphate, but there was little opportunity to do this on an extensive scale other than spreading laboriously by hand until aircraft were used for the purpose.
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- Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1959
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A lecture given before the Society on 5th May 1959. Because Mr. Scott was unable to be in England at the time, the lecture was read, on his behalf, by Mr. C. V. Dayus, Agricultural Adviser, New Zealand Agricultural Branch, London.
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