Stories of Leeton | Sowing seeds of the future

July 27 2018 - 10:00am
WORKFORCE: At the Riverina Welfare Farm boys picked vegetables including, in this case, tomatoes which were then sent to the cannery.
WORKFORCE: At the Riverina Welfare Farm boys picked vegetables including, in this case, tomatoes which were then sent to the cannery.

Early in 1908 the Department of Agriculture obtained approximately 300 acres of land close to the Yanco Railway Station from Sir Samuel McCaughey to set up an experimental farm.  

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