agricultural

The version of Queensland that the Brisbane Exhibition presented so consistently year after year, including during 1909, was a story of unrelenting certitude in the righteousness of colonisation and utter confidence that ongoing cultural, educational, and above all material progress was Queensland’s birthright and destiny. Queensland, according to this account, was a land of unlimited productive capacities, and Queenslanders, as proud members of the British Empire, were the people who could release those capacities. It was a demanding endeavor, as demonstrated by the rigors endured by the ‘pioneers’ whose achievements were praised at the Jubilee Carnival’s opening ceremony, but it was also an enterprise that promised economic rewards and moral fulfillment. This was a society, the story claimed, that reveled in competition, as exemplified in the contests of the Brisbane Exhibition and Jubilee Carnival, but was united in its determination to improve itself. The narrative of Queensland relied on and glorified the ideal of progress. Source: Celebrating Her First Half-Century: Queensland’s Jubilee Carnival Joanne Scott and Ross Laurie espace.library.uq.edu.au/data/UQ_203075/UQ203075_OA.pdf?

Must be the original pesticide!

This one matches the other, reading "No. 1 5/17/11" in the upper corner. It's reversed.

I'd hardly deem a family outing to the country to pick some fruit as "labor"... I guess perhaps to someone overly domesticated it would be...

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bryan411] They pick fruit all summer and if you have ever done it you would have to admit it is hard work. At this time they would not have been paid much and would have had quotas to fill each day.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/bellster] I have done it on my grandmother's farm... It was a good experience for me too, IMO!

No doubt but I would imagine your working conditions were a little better. Back packers do most of the fruit picking over here to supplement their holiday money.

former east-Europeans do it in the Netherlands, where locals don't fancy the hard work. Every now and then, a scandal comes to the surface, regarding housing or payment or both. You don't come harvesting asparagus or strawberries for fun, but out of need. The photo is old, but the work ánd the circumstances are still actual. I wonder if that doggie was of any help ;-)