cotton

Assistance to cotton growers, Upper Burnett and Callide Valley, 1937. Under the Cotton Production Relief Scheme, advances were made to ‘necessitous' cotton growers in the Upper Burnett and Callide Valleys. In 1937, a total of £20,000 was made available from the Unemployment Relief Scheme of which just over £14,317 was spent. These images show the clearing and burning of native vegetation to make way for increased cotton production. Queensland parliamentary papers, vol 2, 1937

Collection of the University of Queensland Library

Cotton growing areas of Queensland, 1956

1 July 1956

2 March 2011

Walkabout

Cotton growing areas of Queensland, 1956. Based on information supplied by the Cotton Marketing Board, Queensland, Walkabout, July 1956. Collection of the Centre for the Government of Queensland, the University of Queensland.

Queensland Acclimatisation Society

Members of the Queensland Acclimatisation Society in the nineteenth century played a key role in the importation and experimentation with many plants.