Pera Bore Experiment Farm: Greening the "Howling Desert"
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Australian Rangeland Society
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2010
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In the late nineteenth century the Pera Bore, not far from Bourke, became the site of a unique experiment farm. No other government experiment farm was located so far from a capital city or agricultural district. The experiments were to test the suitability of old rain – artesian water – for irrigating small agricultural holdings in the rangelands. What happened at Pera Bore and why was it built? What agenda drove the push for agriculture in the dry interior? ...
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English
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Text
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Conference Paper
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Cite this paper:
Muir, C. Pera Bore Experiment Farm: Greening the 'Howling Desert'. In: Proceedings of the 16thBiennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Bourke (Eds D.J. Eldridge and C. Waters) (Australian Rangeland Society: Perth).
Muir, C. Pera Bore Experiment Farm: Greening the 'Howling Desert'. In: Proceedings of the 16thBiennial Conference of the Australian Rangeland Society, Bourke (Eds D.J. Eldridge and C. Waters) (Australian Rangeland Society: Perth).
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16th Biennial Conference, Australian Rangeland Society, Bourke, New South Wales
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Keywords
artesian water
experiment farms
history of science
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