Black and white photograph of a threshing team at workagriculture, farming, harvest, steam tractor, wheat harvest, threshing

Booklet: ''Accent on Axedale'', published by the Centenary and Back to Axedale Committee 1970. 36 pages with photographs. Chapters on: Early Settlement; Churches; Education; Police; Municipal Affairs; Commerce; Cemeteries; Race Course Reserve; The Railway (O'Keefe); Eppalock Weir; The Hall; The Wars; C.W.A; Camp Sites; C.F.A; Axedale Progress Association; Sport;Alfred Ruskin Publications. Freelance Press, 61-63 City South Melbourne. 3205axedale, history, early settlement, axedale sporting club, indoor bowls, axedale progress association, c.w.a., country fire association.eppalock weir, the railway, race course reserve, cemeteries, axedale farmers club, the pitcher dressers poem by w. g. o'neill, bluestone quarries, threshing teams, hotels, general store and post office. education, churches, early settlement.

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2001. Busy lads: The mcNicol threshing team, 1912, Korong. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Photograph of a threshing team taken at Will Chambers Property. Julia & Lynda Chambers standing behind fence. Hal Chambers standing at the foot of the stackThalma (D Ilsley) opp P.O. Rutherglenw h chambers, chandler

Bendigo Advertiser ''the way we were'' from 2001. Bailing up: McNicol's threshing team, 1912. Photo courtesy of the Korong Historical Society. The clip is in a foldernewspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Bendigo Advertiser ''The way we were'' from 2001. Hard yakka: the McNicol's threshing team hard at work, 1912. Photo courtesy of Korong Historical Society. The clip is in a folder.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Bendigo Advertiser "the way we were" from 1999. Teamwork: threshing machine and team, circa 1900.newspaper, bendigo advertiser, the way we were

Burnt Gully - possibly near Woodvale. a. Black and white photo: men standing behind, alongside bagged grain. Steam farm engine on RH side. Written on rear of photo: threshing team at lunch engine Ruston Procter steam. 8 horse power, single cylinder, working pressure 75 lbs per square inch. 80 revs per minte. Fly wheel 6 feet in diameter. b. Pilcher's thresher on Robert Riley's farm, Burnt Gully. Bullock drivers Bill Pilcher, Paddy Mulcair. Bullock drawn threshing machine, large group of men standing alongside and to rear of machine. Two men standing on top of thresher. Steam traction engine on far left of photo. c. Pioneer log cabin Burnt Gully, the home of the Grafton family, demolished about 1930. Hut of slab construction, with corruated iron roof over timber slats. Chimney of logs and slabs topped with bricks on LH side of house. Steam farm machine in background on LH side.unknownagriculture, farm, grafton familyh, robert riley, bill pilcher, paddy mulcair, burnt gully.

Maize, or corn as it is called in America and New South Wales, has been grown on the Orbost flats for at least 70 years. When early settlers began to arrive on the Snowy River somewhere in the 1880s, the land was mostly swamps and heavily timbered jungle on the river frontages. The swamps were drained, bit by bit, by stout hearted men with short handled shovels and working in mud and water. The frontages were cleared by axe and shovel and fire. Several kinds of crops were experimented with such as hops, hemp and maize, the latter grew particularly well and became the main crop of district. The problem then was to thresh and deliver the product to the market. A small single cob machine was brought here and one man turned the handle, while the boy or Mum fed the cobs singly into the machine. A good day’s work would thresh about 50 bushels or about 12 bags (4 bushels). The task then was to cart the maize to market. For a few years this was done by horses and dray carrying about 60 bushels to Mossiface, where it was loaded onto river boats to Lakes Entrance, and then by ocean boats to Melbourne. ( from NEWSLETTER OCTOBER, 2006) This is a pictorial record of farming practices in Orbost in the early 20th century.A black / white photograph of a horse team hauling a wagon loaded with bags of maize.A man is sitting on the edge of the wagon.farming-orbost agriculture maize corn transport

Photograph of a team of cattle hitched to a threshing machine, there is a group of men beside the machine and behind them is a traction engine. Written underneath is East Loddon Shire. Claydons Machine at Elmwood Serpentine,topic, farming, threshing, threshing machine, claydons machine, east loddon shire, elmwood serpentine

Associated with - Mhs Buildings - Threshing Machine People - Blackwell Family

Donald Clark Collection. A monochrome photograph depicting Donald McKenzie Calder's Threshing Machine with children and a team of men, around 1900. Copy photograph.