Good Land
Apart from a few small private schemes irrigation is not used widely in Tasmania. This is not because Tasmania is backward in its farming methods but because much of the land has an extraordinary capacity for carrying stock over dry periods. Mr G. T. Han slow, a member of the Tasmanian Young Farmers’ Clubs, who arrived by air from Melbourne, said that in the last nine months only four inches of rain had fallen at Cambridge, his home town. This was the driest spell in 100 years and although the average rainfall was 2? non ® of th e dairy «tock, the fat lambs or pigs on his 365-
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27636, 18 April 1955, Page 10
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