DOI article:
Twidale, Charles Rowland: Farming by the early settlers and the making of ridges and furrows in South Australia
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RIDGES AND FURROWS IN AUSTRALIA
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Fig. 9. Lands near Mount Crawford. Photo Twidale, Feb. 1970. Lands in der Nahe des Mount Crawford.
Fig. 10. Air photograph of ridges and furrows near Mount Crawford, northern Mount Lofty Ranges. Fig. 11
was taken from X looking N.N.W. Reprod. by courtesy South Australia Depart, of Lands. Dec. 1956.
Luftaufnahme von Balken und Furchen in der Nahe des Mount Crawford, sudliche Mount Lofty Ranges.
larger teams of animals were required to pull the
multi-share ploughs than were necessary for the
one-share implements. Until water supplies were
reasonably well secured stock numbers, including
draft animals, were kept to a minimum in the less
well watered areas of the State (Twidale and
Smith).
Thus one-share ploughs were widely used by
the early wheat farmers in South Australia. When
in the Mount Lofty and Flinders ranges the early
wheat paddocks were abandoned and returned to
pasture, the marks of these simple ploughs remain-
ed in the landscape, and have persisted in many
areas to the present day.
Distribution of Lands in South Australia
The South Australian lands first came to the wri-
ter’s attention in 1959 in connection with soil
erosion studies. During the past 130 years many
parts of South Australia have suffered a phase
of anthropogenically induced accelerated soil
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Fig. 9. Lands near Mount Crawford. Photo Twidale, Feb. 1970. Lands in der Nahe des Mount Crawford.
Fig. 10. Air photograph of ridges and furrows near Mount Crawford, northern Mount Lofty Ranges. Fig. 11
was taken from X looking N.N.W. Reprod. by courtesy South Australia Depart, of Lands. Dec. 1956.
Luftaufnahme von Balken und Furchen in der Nahe des Mount Crawford, sudliche Mount Lofty Ranges.
larger teams of animals were required to pull the
multi-share ploughs than were necessary for the
one-share implements. Until water supplies were
reasonably well secured stock numbers, including
draft animals, were kept to a minimum in the less
well watered areas of the State (Twidale and
Smith).
Thus one-share ploughs were widely used by
the early wheat farmers in South Australia. When
in the Mount Lofty and Flinders ranges the early
wheat paddocks were abandoned and returned to
pasture, the marks of these simple ploughs remain-
ed in the landscape, and have persisted in many
areas to the present day.
Distribution of Lands in South Australia
The South Australian lands first came to the wri-
ter’s attention in 1959 in connection with soil
erosion studies. During the past 130 years many
parts of South Australia have suffered a phase
of anthropogenically induced accelerated soil