Item 03: Archie Barwick diary, 10 May-23 July 1916 - Page 220
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the wheat would run easily from 20 to 60 bushels per acre, it was about 5 or 6 feet high & as level as a billiard table, & just beginning to turn the oats would run easily from 2 to 3 tons per acre for hay & hard to say what they wouldn't thrash, they are 90 % Algerians, they do wonderfully well here but then what wouldn't grow in bonnie France, she seems to be just one oast alluvial plain of the finest possible quality there is never a fence to be seen, nor an uncultivated piece of land everything is put to the utmost possible use, & at this time of the year she is a sight one would never forget, I can give you no idea what she is like for I have never seen anything comparable to it in any form in either Tasmania or New South Wale's all along the line & in the crop's there