AGRICULTURE: How government kick-started land settlement*

It is now 40 years since the first 24 settlers moved into the desolate landscape of the Heytesbury Settlement – one of the most successful land settlement schemes in the world.The area of land south of Cobden, to the sea and the foothills of the Otway Ranges was unproductive to the earlier generation of farmers seeking land, in spite of a reliable rainfall of 36 inches. As early as 1932 experiments began, and found that the soil was lacking some trace elements, mostly molybdenum. With the corre…

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