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PLANET EARTH BACK IN THE DAY
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My Uncle and aunt's farm grew tobacco in Texas back in the 1970s. I remember when the shearers used to camp there every year, too.

One can travel around the NSW-Queensland border and take for granted many relics of bygone days. From Ashford through to Inglewood there are many old tobacco barns made of logs and some later designs made of concrete blocks. In Inglewood there is tobacco farming/industry museum. Source: www.goondiwindiargus.com.au/story/5157098/traditional-tob...

The town of Texas is situated in Queensland, on the banks of the Dumaresq River, on the border with Nw South Wales, in the Darling Downs region. The rich, alluvial river flats around the river encouraged farmers to plant crops, one of the earliest being corn. By the late 1860s, Chinese people were being employed to grow tobacco. In the 1880s, the Greenup bros. were growing tobacco called "Texas Gold Bar" and Stanley McMaster of Runnymede began using Chinese laborers to grow tobacco, operating on the shared system. The tobacco of this time was all sun or air-cured. By the turn of the century, a tobacco factory was erected in Texas. The output of tobacco declined in the 1920s, but increased dramatically in the 1930s, because of the rapid rise in import duty on tobacco leaf. In 1908, Texas Station had 200 acres of tobacco leased to Chinese farmers. The station built the sheds and looked after the sales, while the share farmer paid one-third of the profit for the use of the land. European, growers, however, gradually took over from the Chinese and became an important part of the area's economy for many years, until 1960s. For 30 years before 1960s, the Texas district was second in importance only to Mareeba-Dimbulah in tobacco production. Source: historicalaustraliantowns.blogspot.com/2019/

From www.genevany.org/50/ '1912 Cyclone hit SW edge of Geneva on September 1; razed huge barns on White Springs Farm. ' And from www.belhurstcastle.com/whitehistory.html 'Sunday, September 1, 1912, was a day of disaster for White Springs Farm and the immediate vicinity. A cyclone wrought havoc, leveling the main group of dairy barns and uprooting most of the beautiful elms on the farm. A three-quarter ton dinner bell from one of the barns was found a half-mile away. Miraculously, there was no loss of human life, though four or five calves were killed. Clean-up operations were extensive, and tree experts were brought in to salvage what trees could be saved. Mr. Lewis sold the Guernseys, rather than replace the barns. By 1920 the cattle business was over.' Since then, the farm has apparently been a poultry farm, an orchard, a home for the elderly, and is now a hotel and winery.

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