Further results of trials involving oversowing, topdressing and grazing management practices on steep unploughable hill country with an original carrying capa city of about 1.5 ewes per acre, are presented.Pasture improvement has been recorded by frame measurements to determine herbage yield3, by herbage dissection, and also point analyses to determine botanical changes. With improvement in pasture, carrying capacity has increased markedly without detriment to stock thrift. All sheep were weighed monthly, and fleece weights were recorded.

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Twenty-seven pasture species were sown in plots on high-rainfall hill country. Annual and seasonal productions were measured by monthly herbage cuts over a period of three years. The results are discussed with reference to the usefulness of the species in hill pastures.N.Z. ]. agric. Res.

Subterranean clover seed was collected from 51 old pastures in 9 regions of New Zealand. Spaced plants from these 51 populations were grown at Palmerston North and compared with a range of Australian commercial lines. Mt Barker types were present in every New Zealand population sampled and constituted 74% of the total collection. Tallarook and Woogenellup made up 21% and 2070 of the collection respectively. A very late-flowering dwarf type with Mt

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