Agricultural Settlement in Victoria's Last Frontier: The Mallee, 1890–1951

In the 1890s agricultural settlers moved into the Victorian Mallee, an area characterized by low rainfall and a deep-rooted eucalyptus mallee scrub. By rolling, cutting, and burning this scrub, large areas could be rapidly brought under cereal crops. The key to success on this agricultural frontier...
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Autor*in:

Charles Fahey [verfasserIn]

Format:

Artikel

Sprache:

Englisch

Erschienen:

2017

Schlagwörter:

Agriculture

Pricing

Farms

Cereal crops

Sheep

Rainfall

Agricultural production

Intervention

Settlers

Storms

Consolidation

World War I

Scrub

Eucalyptus

Mallee

Farmlands

Machinery

Dust storms

Diaries

Farming

Combustion

Incineration

Commodity prices

Books

Farmers

Archives & records

Burning

Harvesting

Cutting parameters

Cultivation

Übergeordnetes Werk:

Enthalten in: Agricultural history - Lawrence, KS : Agricultural History Society, 1927, 91(2017), 2, Seite 187

Übergeordnetes Werk:

volume:91 ; year:2017 ; number:2 ; pages:187

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DOI / URN:

10.3098/ah.2017.091.2.187

Katalog-ID:

OLC199598230X

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