The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. VX17870 Sergeant J. P. Heavey of Melbourne supervising Japanese workers at BCOF farm in the lettuce patch. The vegetables are watered by spray irrigation, not a popular method with the Japanese who prefer gravitation and channel methods.
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. VX17870 Sergeant J. P. Heavey of Melbourne supervising Japanese men hoeing beans at the BCOF farm. In the foreground is some of the dwarf bamboo which proved difficult
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. VX500560 Private A. C. Patterson of Terang and VX17870 Sergeant J. P. Heavey of Melbourne are two soldiers who work on the BCOF farm. On the farm is an irrigation syste
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. VX17870 Sergeant J. P. Heavey of Melbourne, a member of the BCOF farm staff, inspects the reservoir intake, above the dam. The water can be used for domestic purposes a
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. VX17870 Sergeant J. P. Heavey of Melbourne, a member of the BCOF farm staff, inspecting a dam that is filled by an overflow from the reservoir. It can be used for domes
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. Two Japanese workers at BCOF farm, one stacking charcoal while the other cleans out the oven after the pine saplings have been fired in it. The resulting charcoal is us
Shimogahara, Japan. 1948-06-04. BCOF farm operates its own sawmill. Boards are cut from logs grown in the locality and from these the carpenters make crates for packing the vegetables for Kure.
