The Performance of Beef Cattle in North Queensland
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چکیده
sTUDIES of the liveweight gains of beef cattle have been undertaken at several places in North Queensland. These have included “Wairuna”, 50 miles W. of Cardwell, in a 28-inch rainfall area fairly typical of a large area of cattle country in North Queensland; the Bureau of Tropical Agriculture, South Johnstone, where cattle are grazed on tropical grasses and legumes grown under the high rainfall conditions of the coast; and the Ayr Regional Station on the Burdekin delta where cattle are grazed on irrigated tropical grasses and legumes.
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