Image collection: Farming

This is a sample of photographs of farming. You can search the catalogue for more or browse the collections.

Messrs Watson & Company's sale yards and wool shed, Christchurch [ca. 1885]	A bullock team used to sleigh fencing material, Banks Peninsula [1890?]	Chicory kilns on Jones Road, Templeton [ca. 1892]
The new Fowler traction engine [1897]	General view of the Christchurch Drainage Board's sewage farm, Bromley, Christchurch [1898]	Carnival Week in Christchurch : the implement section of the Canterbury A & P Association's metropolitan show [1899]
Grass seeders threshing, Banks Peninsula [ca. 1900]	A sheep fair, saleyards [ca. 1900]	Harrowing using a fertiliser disc harrow with equalising chain yokes on the Canterbury Plains [ca. 1900]
Milking by machinery [ca. 1900]	The implements display, Canterbury Metropolitan Agricultural Show, Christchurch [1901]	Reaping and binding wheat on the Moderate farm, Bennetts district, Canterbury [between 1901 and 1905]
Shearers' accommodation on a Canterbury station [1909]	Sheep grazing in Hagley Park, Christchurch [1910]	There was a demand for the wool classing classes provided by the Christchurch Technical College [1910]
Eight teams of horses being used to plough a 400 acre paddock in South Canterbury [1912]	The comprehensive display of the New Zealand Farmers' Co-operative Association at the Canterbury Metropolitan Show [1913]	Up-to-date farming in New Zealand : an Ivel agricultural motor at work on a South Canterbury farm [1913]
A trial of a Jelbart oil tractor at Mr C.H. Ensor's White Rock Station [26 Feb. 1916]	The demonstration farm headquarters at Avonhead for returned soldiers at the new soldiers' settlement near Avonhead, Christchurch [1919]	Ostrich farm, near Christchurch [ca. 1921]
Sheep-washing and drying yards, Longbeach, on the property of John Grigg [ca. 1921]	Poultry raising and egg production in Canterbury : pens of pullets at Fazackerley's poultry farm, Sockburn, Christchurch [1926]	Circular haystacks [1930]
Sheaves of wheat stooked (stacked to dry before threshing) [1930]	The Temuka Flour Milling Grain and Produce Agency Co. Ltd. [193-]	Aerial view of the Christchurch Agricultural and Pastoral Show, Addington [ca. 1960]
Horses on flat land opposite Hillwood orchard	Sheep, Bridle Path Road - on the way to the Mount Pleasant shearing sheds	Everything was done by hand & meant lots of carrying to the packing shed. All the hillside was hand-dug & irrigated by a windmill in the paddock land in paddock land opposite the orchard on the hillside