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Tropical Grasslands
Vol. 16 1982

Contributed Articles March 1982 (No. 1)

   

Presidential Address:
Tropical Grasslands Society of Australia — A perspective — T.R. EVANS

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Stobbs Memorial Lecture 1981:
Integrated pasture and animal management — R.E. BLAZER

9

Observations on the persistence and potential for beef production of pastures based on Trifolium semipilosum and Leucaena leucocephala in subtropical coastal Queensland — R.J. JONES and R.M. JONES

24

The nutritive value and utilisation of three tropical grass hays by sheep — I.F. ADU and A.M. ADAMU

29

Comparative growth of four tropical pasture legumes and guinea grass with different phosphorus sources — P.C. KERRIDGE and D. RATCLIFF

33

Note on the effect of sowing date, defoliation management and closure date on the seed production and forage yield of berseem clover (Trifolium alexandrinum) — K.F. LOWE and T.M. BOWDLER

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Technical Note: Improved establishment of Stylosanthes hamata cv. Verano using heat-treated seed — J.J. MOTT and G.M. McKEON

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Effect of feeding Gliricidia maculata to milking cows: A preliminary report — P.A. CHADHOKAR and A. LECAMWASAM

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Contributed Articles June 1982 (No. 2)

   

Notes for Contributors

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Influence of short duration, high temperature seed treatment on the germination of some tropical and temperate legumes — J.J. MOTT, S.J. COOK and R.J. WILLIAMS

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A study of cattle grazing improved and native pastures in south-east Queensland and some dynamics of siratro-based pastures — D.C. NICOL, W.J. BISSET and the late G.W.C. MARLOWE

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Evaluation of temperate grass species for the eastern Darling Downs of Queensland — D.A. IVORY

63

Evaluation of five white clover (Trifolium repens) cultivars and Kenya white clover (T. Semipilosum) on the eastern Darling Downs of Queensland — D.A. IVORY

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Contributions to yield, nitrogen fixation and transfer by local and exotic legumes in tropical grass-legume mixtures in Western Samoa — S.G. REYNOLDS

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Breeding Centrosema pubescens in tropical South America — B. GROF

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Technical Note: Studies on improved pastures in the northern Thai Highlands — J. LINDSAY FALVEY and ALAN C. ANDREWS

83

Proceedings:
Seed production and marketing of tropical pasture species — field meeting, CSIRO Pasture Research Station, Samford, April 13, 1981

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Book Review

Tropical Pasture Science — P.C. WHITEMAN

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Contributed Articles September 1982 (No. 3)

   

Fire in improved pastures of northern Australia — J.J. MOTT

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Rapid vegetative propagation of Stylosanthes guianensis — J.W.MILES

100

Fire in the management of grazing lands in Queensland — A.J. PRESSLAND

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Dry matter and nitrogen changes in five tropical grasses as influenced by cutting height and frequency — C.H. MIDDLETON

112

White clover (Trifolium repens) in subtropical south-east Queensland.
I. Some effects of site, season and management practices on the population dynamics of white clover — R.M. JONES

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White clover (Trifolium repens) in subtropical south-east Queensland
II. Effect of lime application on nutrient concentrations in soil and in white clover — R.M. JONES

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The effect of rust (Uromyces appendiculatus) on the yield and digestibility of Macroptilium atropurpureum cv. siratro — R.J. JONES

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Evaluation of introduced grass species for pastures in the dry tropics of north Queensland — P. ANNING

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Evaluation of introduced legumes for pastures in the dry tropics of north Queensland — P. ANNING

146

Persistence of jointvetch (Aeschynomene falcata) in experimental sowings in the Australian subtropics — G.P.M. WILSON, R.M. JONES and B.G. COOK

155

Book Review

Collecting and testing tropical forage plants — Eds R.J. CLEMENTS and D.G. CAMERON

157

Forage evaluation: concepts and techniques — Eds J.L. WHEELER and R.D. MOCHRIE

158

Contributed Articles December 1982 (No. 4)

   

Stobbs Memorial Lecture 1982.
Behaviour of free-ranging livestock on native grasslands and shrublands — V.R. SQUIRES

161

Productivity of five subtropical grasses on a black earth of the eastern Darling Downs of Queensland — J. MACKENZIE, R. MAYER and W.J. BISSET

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Litter measurements in two grazed pastures in south-east Queensland — R.C. BRUCE and J.P. EBERSOHN

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The behaviour of Townsville stylo (Stylosanthes humilis) in a native pasture at the Narayen Research Station in south-east Queensland — F.E. MASSA AND L.'t MANNETJE

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The relative responses of three clover cultivars to nutrients — R.C. BRUCE

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Harvest efficiency in seed crops of Gatton panic (Panicum maximum) and signal grass (Brachiaria decumbens) — J.M. HOPKINSON and B.H. ENGLISH

201

The survival of erect and spreading lucerne under grazing at Lawes and Biloela, southern Queensland — G.J. LEACH, D. GRAMSHAW and F.H. KLEINSCHMIDT

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Technical Note: Grazing assessment of the tropical legume Calopogonium caeruleum — C.H. MIDDLETON and W. MELLOR

213

Proceedings:
Pasture management, persistence and utilisation for beef and deer farming — field meeting Upper Kandanga, June 1981

216

Book Review

Nitrogen cycling in West African ecosystems — Ed T. ROSSWALL

219

Environmental adaptation of tropical pasture plants — L.R. HUMPHREYS

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Livestock management in the arid zone — V.R. SQUIRES

222

A manual of Australian agriculture (4th Ed. Rev.) — Ed R.L. REID

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