Farm manure in methane production

Date: 1978

From: Lodge, Nevile Sidney 1918-1989 :[Archive of original cartoons for the Evening Post and Sports Post, 1941 to 1988]

By: Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.); Lodge, Nevile Sidney, 1918-1989

Reference: B-135-352

Description: This three-scened cartoon relates to cows as methane producers. One has a man off to the USA with his wife's vanity bag full of samples, the second has a farmer giving his cow laxatives and the third has a government official telling a dairy farmer he has to pay road user tax for his cows as they are methane tankers Extended Title - Hard-pressed dairy farmers should investigate this promising outlet Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink and crayon, 320 x 460 mm

Date: 1993

From: Greenall, Frank :Cartoons published in The Dominion Sunday Times. Mar 1993 to Jan 1994

Reference: A-300-028

Description: Several men attempting to force progress on a large bull 'Gatt talks'. The bull is hauling a cart with grain, and there is cattle grazing in the background. Refers to slow progress with talks for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, to global warming, and to methane emissions by cattle Quantity: 1 original cartoon(s). Physical Description: Ink on paper, 296 x 433 mm

Date: 24 November 2021

From: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-: Digital cartoons published in The Press, Sunday Star Times, Dominion Post, and other publications

By: Murdoch, Sharon Gay, 1960-; Stuff Limited

Reference: DCDL-0042273

Description: Digital cartoon by Sharon Murdoch on political and social issues in New Zealand and internationally. Cartoon depicts a skeleton emerging from the ground below a headstone labelled 'RIP bad farming practices'. A green gas comes out of the skeleton's nose and a figure walking in the graveyard asks a second figure "Can you smell methane?". The caption reads: "Last gasp". Title taken from item. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2000

From: Scott, Tom, 1947- :74 cartoon bromides published in the Evening Post between 1 May 2000 and 31 August, 2000.

Reference: H-618-009

Description: Cows alarmed by men arriving in a truck carrying large corks. Exhibition caption reads - Greenhouse emissions were calculated, analysed and the blame apportioned [in 2000]; but it is harder to find workable solutions. Exhibited in '30 from 2000' exhibition of 30 cartoons from the New Zealand Cartoon Archive collection displayed in the National Library (auditorium foyer) from 7 July 2001. The cartoons were all published in the year 2000. Final selection of cartoons made by Rt Hon Jonathon Hunt, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Denis Welch, New Zealand Listener journalist, and Margaret Calder, Chief Librarian of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Quantity: 1 laser copy.. Physical Description: Laser copy, image size 150 x 210 mm.

Date: 2006

From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]

Reference: DCDL-0002796

Description: Two farmers lean against a fence chatting. In the field beyond are a number of cows with small windmills attached to their rumps. One farmer says to the other that he has put two and two together after all the talk of windmills and methane emissions. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 2007

From: Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published in the Dominion Post]

Reference: DCDL-0003945

Description: A large Fonterra cow wonders if someone said something as two tiny people struggle in a pile of dung the cow has just produced along with a string of farts. Refers to the amount of gas emission produced by the dairy industry, and the fact that the Dairy industry is doing well financially and for this reason is causing more farmers to turn to dairy. Gas emissions, in the form of methane, actually produced more by the belching than farting of cattle, contribute to global warming. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).

Date: 1991

From: Heath, Eric Walmsley 1923- :[27 volumes of newspaper clippings and bromide books] 1965-1992.

Reference: E-546-q-014

Description: A range of vehicles shown with attached sheep and cattle in trailers providing their fuel, with scatological humour in the associated text, e.g."Turdo charged", "The zappy little Dunga". Quantity: 1 cartoon bromide(s). Physical Description: Bromide, 135 x 177 mm (glued to album page)