A Century of Farmyard Relics in Australia: 1840 - 1940"One only needs to travel outside of the key Australian capital cities and before too long you can find evidence of our agricultural past. Rusting remains of old horse drawn implements, an aged seeder or plough as a garden ornament in a rural town front yard, the rusting hulk of an old kerosene tractor, once the prized working tool of a farmer. ... Author and historian, Ken Arnold, has spent numerous hours and traveled thousands of kilometers in his most challenging undertaking to date, that of compiling and writing an encyclopedic record of the machines, the manufacturers, the histories, the advertisements and the photographs that depicted the evolution of Australia's agricultural mechanization from the late 1840s to around 1940."--Foreword. |
