FARM WATER DUGOUTS
A CANADIAN SCHEME. In their efforts to conserve the water supply in the areas of the southern Canadian Prairies, whicn in recent years suffered from drought. Canadian Government engineers will have completed approximately 6500 small farm water dugouts, small stock watering dams and individual irrigation projects in 1939, a record achievement and nearly double that undertaken in 1938. Since the inauguration of the Prairie Farm Rehabilitation water development was begun in 1935. more than 8100 small water projects have been completed, and were in operation at the beginning of 1939.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 6
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93FARM WATER DUGOUTS Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 November 1939, Page 6
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