A display of wheat samples
Approximately 252 small cylindrical and square glass jars containing a range of prize winning wheat samples with small paper labels and with screw top lids covered in heat sealed white plastic. The labels record the year, name, place and strain.
Source
National Museum of Australia
![A "COMMONWEALTH IMMIGRATION OFFICE PHOTO" postcard featuring a sepia coloured image of a rural scene of an eight horse drawn stripper and one man. A caption for the image, in the lower left hand corner, reads: "STRIPPING AN AVERAGE AUSTRALIAN WHEAT CROP. THE TOTAL VALUE OF THE AUSTRALIAN WHEAT CROP LAST YEAR WAS 62,169,360 [POUNDS]. AUSTRALIA IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS EXPORTED 1,895,630 TONS OF FLOUR'.](/sites/default/files/2023-08/1900s_BI_1903_FederationWheat-1200w.jpg?v=1)
