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Page 27
... cultivation . About seven miles to the east of Mount Barker is the Porongerup Range , covered with a remarkably fine growth of karri timber . Many of the trees are of immense size , some measuring 100 feet to the first branch and being ...
... cultivation . About seven miles to the east of Mount Barker is the Porongerup Range , covered with a remarkably fine growth of karri timber . Many of the trees are of immense size , some measuring 100 feet to the first branch and being ...
Page 90
... cultivation . Gingin Brook is a clear , copious , perennial The rainfall averages twenty - five inches . Principally wheat is cultivated , and the yield averages about twenty bushels per acre in an ordinary season ; but oats and barley ...
... cultivation . Gingin Brook is a clear , copious , perennial The rainfall averages twenty - five inches . Principally wheat is cultivated , and the yield averages about twenty bushels per acre in an ordinary season ; but oats and barley ...
Page 139
... cultivation , and , having a surplus , the ruling prices at all times leaves him a large margin of profit . AREA FOR FRUITS . - All the belt of country known as the Darling Range , say from Bindoon , and Chittering , down past Narrogin ...
... cultivation , and , having a surplus , the ruling prices at all times leaves him a large margin of profit . AREA FOR FRUITS . - All the belt of country known as the Darling Range , say from Bindoon , and Chittering , down past Narrogin ...
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