Wairakaia Station, Muriwai: sheep feeding on pumpkins in winter
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Note from Rodney Faulkner: At Wairakaia, Muriwai 1913; Sheep feeding on pumpkins during the winter. The pumpkins were planted in spring using seed saved from the previous year and required hand weeding several times over the late spring and early summer. In early August the ewe hoggets were introduced to the crop as a way to increase their growth rate. Some pumpkins were split open every day using a heavy slasher and a strong arm! The best were kept for seed which was spread out in the woolshed to dry. I stopped growing pumpkins in about 1965.
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