The Anlaby Station homestead, at Kapunda , South Australia , was showered with offers for a diverse range of products , gadgets and services , a small sample from its office files displayed below.
Sixty pound drums of poison sold for 36 shillings each, smaller tins three shillings . When it came to tree removal , Brown's Great Tree Puller , demonstrated in the Adelaide Botanic Gardens before 500 impressed spectators in 1909 was recommended . Leafing through the documents, another tree puller with a name like the Tasmanian Devil was seen .
To help farmers make their own fuel , no solar panels in those days , they were offered the " Brisbane" charcoal burner , shown here installed on a property in Zillmere , Queensland ,which could burn green timber.
One of the wonders of the age , an ice making machine , would have been in demand , even if you needed a dash of sulphuric acid. The pamphlet, below, for the various model ice machines ,explained the wonders of how the cool stuff is made. It might have been brought back from an overseas trip by a member of the Dutton family as it refers to acid being available from London or Liverpool stores.
From Adelaide came samples of paper and card available for envelopes and writing paper for business and social occasions . Of particular interest was a slip from a London firm , below , offering vegetable parchment, like the papyrus of Egypt , the Paper of the Priests .
Fertilisers , various engines , the famous Sunshine Harvester and beds were the subject of pamphlets . Noticed was the 1911 Kapunda Racing Club report in which it said Mr H. H. Dutton and Mr S. Kidman , who became famous as Australia's Cattle King , had each donated 10 guineas towards stake money.Obviously no range war going on between the sheep and cattle ranchers as in America , if you believe the movies .
