IRRIGATION AND WHEAT
RESEARCH IN SOUTH ISLAND [llY TKLEGItAIMT —r|»ItKSS ASSOCTATTOy] CKRISTCHUKCH. Friday The probability that the wheat-grow-i area of the Ashlmrton County, iioiv producing ;i quarter of the Dominion's wheat. will decline when irrigation is introduced, was indicated in a report submitter] to the quarterly meeting of the Wheat Research Institute h.v the director, l)r. F. YV. Hilgendorf. "In the summer of 1010 water is to lie available for the first section of the Ash burton irrigation scheme, and within a year or two water will lie supplied to more than 100.000 acres of the plain." he said. "It is very probable that the wheat-growing area will decline, since irrigation water gives its best effect on grass and lucerne. It is true that in Ashlmrton the best wheat cropping land will not be irrigated. but some decline in the wheat area is likely.
"From the national point of view, as well as from that of this committee. such a development must be considered as undesirable, and so experiments are contemplated to test the growing of wheat under irrigation."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23381, 24 June 1939, Page 19
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