Time

Subject

Proper names

Tape 1, Side A

0:20

Personal background (born 1926); family farm; local primary school then to Adelaide; university; farm and the Great Depression; on the farm in drought

Adelaide; McBride’s Hospital; Duchess of York; Queen Elizabeth; Mallee; Parrakie; Adelaide High School

3:50

Maintaining the family interest in agriculture; president of the Junior Agricultural Bureau; local Bureau

Urrbrae High School; Fred Richards

5:30

Changing secondary schools for matriculation; returning to the family farm in wartime; joining the Department on a cadetship to go to university; starting work in 1950; studies

Urrbrae High School; Adelaide High School; Adelaide; Roseworthy College

10:25

Practical farm experience; Commonwealth Reconstruction Training Scheme; soil conservation

Roseworthy; Jack Daley; Bert Kelly; Tarlee

12:45

Soil conservation work in pastoral country

Clare; Booborowie; [Burra] Hills

15:00

Work on fruit fly campaign; daily paid staff

[Jack] Harris; Unley Park; Harry Kemp; Glen Osmond

18:15

Understanding agriculture management; bushfire

Roseworthy College; Tarlee; Kelly; Halbury; Wakefield River

19:40

Motivation for career – the ecosystem, farm planning, erosion control, rotation, sowing, fertility; Ag. Bureau meetings; a soil school; soil conservation work; enforcing legislation; post-war land clearance; overcoming resistance

Yorke Peninsula; Lower North; West Coast; Meningie

25:05

Worked from Adelaide then in regions; soil surveys; relations with farmers

Adelaide; Mid North; Balaklava; Lower North; Yorke Peninsula; Maitland; Petersville

26:55

Ag. Bureau movement; publicising work (articles, radio, press, conferences); Soils Branch

Maitland; Bob Herriot; South East; Kybybolite; Kimba; Yatina

31:15

Working on Yorke Peninsula; Soil Conservation Board

Balaklava; Kybybolite

Tape 1, Side B

0:05

Promoted to Officer-in-Charge at Kybybolite, 1956; Advisory Board [of Agriculture]; restarted the Ag. Bureau; biennial field day at the research centre; ABC radio talks

Kybybolite; Phil Young; South East; Frances; 8 Mile Creek; Mt Gambier; Millicent; Victoria

3:20

Victorian farmers coming to field days and joining the Agricultural Bureau

Kybybolite Station; Western Districts (Vic.); Horsham; Hamilton

5:00

Motivation for move to Kybybolite; Departmental hierarchy; own family; developing research programs

Balaklava; Kybybolite; Adelaide; Nancy Atkinson; Salisbury; Struan

9:42

Learning to manage staff; liaison with head office and vets

Roseworthy; Jamestown

13:30

Involvement in a pay case and politics

Mr Harding; Kybybolite; Naracoorte; Struan Research Station; Alan Hookings

15:35

Kybybolite in the Departmental structure – foundation and development; research stations and experimental farms; Adelaide Show – Ag. Bureau and Soils Branch conferences

The Afflecks; L.J. Cook; CSIRO; Canberra; Mr Howard; Adelaide Hills; South East; Turretfield; Parndana; Minnipa; Wanbi; Roseworthy College

22:00

Move to Animal Branch; work at Kybybolite

New Zealand; South East

28:45

Bushfires; high post-shearing stock losses

Australian Society of Animal Production; Keith [K.L.] Baxter; Scotland; Adelaide High [School]

32:20

Move to Animal Branch in 1964

Dennis Muirhead

Tape 2, Side A

0:15

Animal Branch; work on the State Lamb Committee; annual stock competitions

South East; Adelaide; Gawler Place; State Lamb Committee; British Breeds Society; Kybybolite; Struan; Gawler River

6:40

Extension work in the head office; Chronicle and Journal of Agriculture articles; organising national conference of sheep and wool officers; marketing

Ag. Bureau; South East

10:55

More bureaucratic work than research; report on abattoirs

Murray Bridge; Naracoorte; Bordertown

14:15

Other work options; move to Waite Institute (Mintaro Experimental Station) in 1966

Lands Department; Waite Institute; Adelaide University; Mintaro; Mortlock family

16:15

22 year career with the Waite Institute

Adelaide; Clare; Waite Oval

17:25

Animal Branch work

Northfield

19:45

Waite contact with the Department (Mintaro Field Station); Waite nominee on Soil Conservation Committee

South East; Coorong; Mallee; Yorke Peninsula; Flinders Ranges

22:15

Outsider’s perspective on the Department – economic aspects, reorganisation; personal contact

Kybybolite; Waite Institute

25:15

Resignation from the university; help the rural producers

Kybybolite; Balaklava