South Australia - Industries - Rural, Primary and Secondary
- Alpacas and Llamas
- Beekeeping
- Brewing
- Building Stone
- Cotton
- Dairying
- Farming
- Farming - Boiling-Down
- Farm Implements
- Fertilisers
- Grain Diseases
- Mallee and Dry Farming
- Mills
- Ploughing Matches
- Sheep and Shearing
- Farming - Miscellany
- Fishing
- Miscellany
- Oysters and Crayfish
- Trawling
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Whaling
- Flax
- Forestry
- Fruit and Vegetables
- Horses
- Irrigation
- Meat
- Miscellany
- Olives
- Ostrich Farming
- Paper Making
- Poultry
- Silk
- Tobacco
- Viticulture
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Viticulture - Nomenclature of Wine
- Wattle Bark
Farming
Also see South Australia - Northern Lands Development and Allied Matters.
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Though we are to a very large extent a community of agriculturalists we have but little to boast of as cultivators... Many of our farmers think about nothing but wheat growing and persist in the attempt to grow it year after year in spite of partial failures, continuing in arduous struggle against circumstances that are fatal to success.
(Advertiser, 19 April 1888, page 4d.)
Farming
Boiling-Down
The "Boiling Down System" is discussed in the Southern Australian,14 July 1843, page 2d,
Observer,
15 and 29 July 1843, pages 5c-6a and 6c,
Register,
28 February 1844, page 4a,
3 April 1844, page 3e,
17 and 30 September 1867, pages 2g and 2e,
Advertiser,
30 July 1867, page 2d,
Register,
8 June 1917, page 7c.
"Sheep Boiling and Colonial Tallow" is in the Observer,
15 July 1843, page 6a.
A prospectus of the SA Boiling-Down Company is in the Observer,
31 July 1847, page 6b; also see
15 January 1848, page 2a under
"Colonial Review" and
18 March 1848, page 3a.
"A Model Boiling-Down Establishment" is in the Observer,
23 August 1862, page 2e; also see
28 September 1867, page 1a (supp.),
25 January 1868, page 9d,
15 February 1868, page 9c,
11 April 1868, page 9c,
12 September 1868, page 5g,
Register,
17 and 30 September 1867, pages 2g and 2e.
"Boiling-Down" is in the Chronicle,
2 November 1867, page 2d; also see
Register,
3 February 1868, page 3d,
Observer,
25 January 1868, page 9d,
15 February 1868, page 9c,
Express,
1 October 1868, page 2c.
"Boiling-Down Goats" is in the Observer,
2 October 1869, page 4b.
L. Conrad's boiling-down works are described in the Register,
29 November 1893, page 7e,
12 February 1895, page 5a-c.
"A Way They Had in the Early Days - Boiling Down Stock" is in the Register,
8 June 1917, page 7c.
