WATER AS WANTED
NEW IRRIGATION DEVICE
BRISBANE, September A simple irrigation device whicfe automatically determines when, crops!. want water, and then gives them th# right amount, has been invented by an; Australian engineer. It is described by the Queensland manager of they Army Invention Directorate, Mr. As Crammond. who saw the plant in opera* tion recently on a farm. The simple; overhead irrigation contrivance has n<| electricity or motors and no excessive gadgetry about it. By the most clef. mentary mechanical methods it decides when the earth requires water to? obtain the best growth possible. When; the time arrives," according to ths crop, the machine automatically turns? it on. The plant consists of sprays of i a more or less orthodox rotary type!
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Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 6
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123WATER AS WANTED Evening Post, Volume CXL, Issue 61, 10 September 1945, Page 6
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