AN EXPERIMENT
ON IRRIGABLE LANDS
[United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.]
(Received this day at 9.20 a.m) LONDON, June 19,
An experiment of interest to Dominions’ orchardists and agriculturists was witnessed by a party of experts visiting Rothamsted experimental station. The experiments which were witnessed by the.. New Zealander, H. M. Richardson, arose out of a belief that irrigated land sometimes lost, its value after irrigation, due to the effect of constant water on the soil which was accustomed to only a small amount of ruin..
It is hoped the investigators will be able to inform prospective irrigators whether land is liktlv -to respond to irrigation, saving much needless expi ti sd.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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111AN EXPERIMENT Hokitika Guardian, 20 June 1931, Page 5
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