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108 Taranaki and about Gisborne are more suited to cattle than those surrounding Christchurch.

Cattle are reared to a great extent in Otago, the climate and the soil being especially suited to them.

New Zealand beef, fed entirely upon grass, hay, and mangolds, is, generally speaking, very good, and far less greasy than that fed by English farmers in stables and upon oil cake.

Cattle are scarcely ever housed at night, except in the case of prize or stud stock. Mangolds and hay are given them during winter, in the fields, when the grass is