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of Agriculture, Victoria. 1 10 May, 1916. 



Threshing, stacking straw, and carting wheat to the barn was under- 

 taken from the 14th to the 31st of January last. The straw was baled, 

 carted to the Werribee railway station, and loaded on trucks for sale, 

 from 27th January to 16th February, 1916. 



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Cutting Wheat for Threshing. 





Threshing the Grain. 



The weather was very favorable throughout the harvesting opera- 

 tions, and little delay was caused in the work by wet conditions. 



Harvesting work was done by the permanent farm hands and 

 temporary harvest workers at the ruling district rates of pay. The cost 

 per acre can be seen in Table No. 2. 



