Abstract
Extract
The importance of beef cattle in the economy of hill-country farming in the Gisborne district has increased considerably during the last decade. The conditions which prompted Crawford (Citation1949) to sum up the farmers's attitude to his cattle as “agricultural implements” or which caused Barton in Citation1954 to describe them as “adjuncts to sheep-farming; animals which were necessary but from which little direct profit could be gained”, no longer exist.