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Covering the years 1860-1945, it depicts the challenges and developments within Australian agriculture, personalised through the documents and the photographs of the
extensive Sloane family collection.
The story of the Sloanes provides a rare insight into the human side of history, and their fascinating tale is woven throughout the book. |
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Weekly Times December 9, 1998
By Kim Woods |
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Cropping legends are revealed
A new book documenting the evolution of Australia's mixed cropping areas has blown apart some of the country's greatest farming
legends.
Riverina grain growers and historians Alexander and Ann Sloane have published Heritage Farming in Australia which sets out to correct the myths created between 1883 and 1913.
Hugh McKay is widely
acknowledged as the inventor of the stripper harvester, but the book claims James Morrow, of J Nicholson & Co, invented a method of combining the stripper and winnower and manufactured the first commercially
successful stripper harvester in Australia. |
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The Land Magazine, May, 6, 1999
By Carol Trainor
Sloane's Story
.........The Sloane family men were agricultural pioneers in Southern NSW,
developing cropping, irrigation and shearing techniques from its base in the Mulwala District......They were an innovative family and their neighbors were also innovative, so it really gives a picture of agriculture in
those times, from irrigation in 1902 to large-scale fodder conservation in 1935..... |
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Facts Behind the Picture |
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This well known photograph of early harvesting methods has been widely published throughout Australia in books, magazines, calendars and historical
publications. In 1977 it was the feature photograph on the widely circulated Denys Lascelles calendar, as promotional material for their wool broking agricultural insurance business. Unfortunately, this
photograph has frequently been accompanied by incorrect information. The book provides an accurate account of its history........... |
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Traditional Transport |
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...... Back in 1935, wheat was transported in the traditional way of individually sown bags. Yet each of the two share farmers on Savernake Station used
contrasting methods, in keeping with their inclination towards old (horses) or new (tractors). After the wheat bags were sewn and branded, they were ready to market.As the wheat carting progressed, the
local unsealed roads became dustier, and the wagons were spaced out further avoid the clouds of dust that were stirred up by the horses' hooves........ |
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