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Page 33
... wheat - growing country , as much as thirty bushels of wheat to the acre having been taken off a small farm at Pingelly . Another thirty miles of easy travelling through similar country brings the passenger to Beverley , to which I have ...
... wheat - growing country , as much as thirty bushels of wheat to the acre having been taken off a small farm at Pingelly . Another thirty miles of easy travelling through similar country brings the passenger to Beverley , to which I have ...
Page 42
... wheat production , where formerly grazing predominated in connection with a very old - fashioned style of agriculture . Where wheat was grown in the old times an exhaustive method of continuous cropping was resorted to , whereas now a ...
... wheat production , where formerly grazing predominated in connection with a very old - fashioned style of agriculture . Where wheat was grown in the old times an exhaustive method of continuous cropping was resorted to , whereas now a ...
Page 137
... wheat in competition with any of the sister colonies ; and , having regard to the fact that the average yield of wheat per acre over these areas exceeds that of South Australia by six bushels per acre , we can at no distant future enter ...
... wheat in competition with any of the sister colonies ; and , having regard to the fact that the average yield of wheat per acre over these areas exceeds that of South Australia by six bushels per acre , we can at no distant future enter ...
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