The Cambridge History of the British Empire: pt. 1. Australia; advisor Ernest ScottArthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians Cambridge University Press, 1933 - Commonwealth of Nations |
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... Agriculture suffered in the same way as sheep - farming from the first effects of the gold fever . In 1850 the area under crop was 491,000 acres . All the colonies had the same experience after 1851. Farms were bereft of labour ...
... Agriculture suffered in the same way as sheep - farming from the first effects of the gold fever . In 1850 the area under crop was 491,000 acres . All the colonies had the same experience after 1851. Farms were bereft of labour ...
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... agriculture , and in paving the way to industrial experiments and standards . In the ' sixties , the rapid extension of stock - raising and agriculture to meet the demand of the goldfields , and the exodus of disappointed South ...
... agriculture , and in paving the way to industrial experiments and standards . In the ' sixties , the rapid extension of stock - raising and agriculture to meet the demand of the goldfields , and the exodus of disappointed South ...
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... agriculture by the new - comers resulted . Instead of settle- ment on the coast , came wide alienations on the Darling Downs , the one possible transmontane region for agriculture . The trend of events was obscured during the middle ...
... agriculture by the new - comers resulted . Instead of settle- ment on the coast , came wide alienations on the Darling Downs , the one possible transmontane region for agriculture . The trend of events was obscured during the middle ...
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