A Story of a Hundred Years: Western Australia, 1829-1929Sir Hal Pateshall Colebatch, Sir Hal Colebatch |
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Page 237
... wheat belt has rendered it essential to wire net the boundaries . This necessitates an additional expenditure of £ 46 per mile . The condition of the fertile forest soil immediately following the clearing burn is such that a seed bed ...
... wheat belt has rendered it essential to wire net the boundaries . This necessitates an additional expenditure of £ 46 per mile . The condition of the fertile forest soil immediately following the clearing burn is such that a seed bed ...
Page 253
... wheat belt . That wheat growing has proved remunerative is shown by the comfortable homesteads and thriving financial position of innumerable families in the wheat belt . A very gratifying feature of this prosperity is that hard working ...
... wheat belt . That wheat growing has proved remunerative is shown by the comfortable homesteads and thriving financial position of innumerable families in the wheat belt . A very gratifying feature of this prosperity is that hard working ...
Page 254
... wheat belt is , in its fundamentals , very simple . Further , there is now available a mass of information so that the new - comer can be given very definite advice regarding the most suitable varieties and other cropping details . The ...
... wheat belt is , in its fundamentals , very simple . Further , there is now available a mass of information so that the new - comer can be given very definite advice regarding the most suitable varieties and other cropping details . The ...
Contents
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND | 7 |
VOYAGE OUT AND LANDING | 22 |
RECORDS OF 1829 | 39 |
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