IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 40, 15 August 1925, Page 6

IRRIGATION SYSTEMS

TOUR Oti AMERICA FOR IN-

FORMATION.

(11 TftiaiiNl.-UICUL TO TBI POST.) DUNEDIN, This Day. Mr. R, B. Tennent, of the Agricultural Department, who visited America on behalf of tho Government to investigate* irrigation in the Western States of tho Pacfic Slope, recently returned after covering a distance of eleven thousand miles in four months. Starting from San Fraucifico, 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. A detailed inspection of this large system was made, and the long- jourjiey from Mexico to Canada was commenced by way of San Joaquim Valley, Sacrument'o 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, 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. Mr. Tennent was deeply impressed with the excellent research work being carried on in those colleges, and he obtained much valuable knowledge in regard to the duty of water and other important problems relating to irrigation practice.