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Pickers laying out grapes to dry in the sun, Northern Victoria. Dried grapes which were easy to pack, store and export were one of the most profitable crops in the irrigated areas of Northern Victoria. Image Reference : 1(122)
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A settlers home at Redcliffs, in North West Victorian, 1926. Irrigated grape vines and drying racks can be seen behind the house.
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A man beside a Dethridge Wheel. Dethridge Metres were installed on irrigation properties after the first world war. The revolving iron wheel measured the flow of water from the irrigation supply channels into the farm channels. This provided the basis upon which irrigation farmers were charged for water.
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Constructing an irrigation channel. By the end of the 1920s, over 140,000 hectares of land in the North West, Goulburn Valley, Gippsland and the Wimmera was under irrigation, although not all of this land was occupied.
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Drying grapes in Northern Victoria. As large areas of irrigated land were settled in North West Victoria the dry Mallee scrub was replaced by a lush, orderly, intensively cultivated landscape.
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