NOBODY had wanted to touch the roughly cleared paddocks that now rank as prime graingr owing country around Goondiwindi. But one exception was a young man named Dick Sudholz who decided to become a contractor and give it a go with a little Caterpillarcrawler tractor and an 18 furrow Chamberlain disc plough. The plough had to be a stump jump model because most of the country, then regarded as very marginal land for agriculture, had been roughly cleared. Land clearing forfarming was still in its infancy also. Sticks everywhere and stumps lurked beneath every mound of earth or tussock of grass.
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