IRRIGATION.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 192, 15 August 1925, Page 8

IRRIGATION.

LESSON FROM AMERICA. AGRICULTURAL EXPERT'S MISSION. (By Telegraph.—Special to "Star." DUNEDIN, this day. Mr. R. B. Tennent, of the Agricultural Department, who visited America on behalf of the Government to investigate irrigation in the Western States of the Pacific Slope, recently returned, after covering a distance of 11,000 miles in four months. Starting from San Francisco he travelled down the coast of California to San Diego, and from there into the famous Imperial Valley, which lies half in California and half in Mexico. Detailed inspection of this large system was made i and the long journey from Mexico to Canada was commenced by •way of San Joaquim. Valley, Sacramento Valley, through the States of Oregon and Washington, and into British Columbia. The States of Idaho and Utah were also included in Mr. Tennent's itinerary t and every irrigation scheme of any importance was closely inspected. In addition Mr. Tennent spent a considerable amount of time at the principal agricultural colleges of each State, and a thorough study was made of the principles and practices of irrigation as taught in those institutions. •^. r ' , Tennent w as deeply impressed with the excellent research work being carried on in those colleges, and he obtained much valuable knowledge in regard to water and other important problems relating to irrigation practice.