The rural entrepreneurs
by Simon P. Ville · 2000
This gives a history of an Australasian institution, the stock and station agency. It examines the ways in which stock and station agents grew from their beginnings in the 1840s as pastoral finance companies to offer support services to remote and inexperienced farming communities.
Animal industryEconomic aspectsEconomic aspects of StockyardsHistoryStockyardsWool industrySheep industry