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Ruined farmland south of Torrita in the Mallee, April 1944. A block of soil is marooned as the surrounding ground eroded. A combination of drought and cultivation techniques destroyed the structure of the soil. Wind whipped the sand up and the ground literally disappeared beneath the feet of the farmers.
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Meringur, Mallee, February 1949. The dark dots in the sand are heads of a wheat crop almost completely buried by drifting sand. During the drought years of 1914, 1927 and 1938 the whole of the Mallee drifted.
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Farm land reduced to a desert of loose sand, south west of Walpeup in the Mallee, 1941. When faced with this devastation, many farmers simply walked off the land.
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Piles of dead mice caught by wily settlers at Minyip in the Wimmera. Mice plagues, which usually followed bumper harvests, were yet another trial faced by wheat farmers of Northern Victoria.
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