DEVICE TO WATER CROPS
WORKS AUTOMATICALLY Brisbane, 'i. A simple device, vvn.Cn automatically ueieiimavS wnen want water ana ihuh fa ivvs mu r.giiL amount, uus ueca mteiucu uj an Austrai.a,, en o .ncur. n is uescrioeu oy me xxiiuy xiivcm-on torate s «auau o c/, -ac. -i. Crammonu, wno saw me piant in operation recently on a A simple over.-ead uTiguLoa c 0..tr.vance, it has no eieti.iicii.j- 0.. motors anct no excessvie about it. By the most eiviae..LaA,. mechanical methods .t decides wnen the earth required water to outa.n the best growth possible. When tne time arrived lor lucerne, silver oeet, or cauliflowers, to require water—a predetermined factor the machine automatically turned it on Horn a supply system. The plant consists oi sprays of the more or less orthodox rotary type, which went mto fiction immediately. First, one spray wou’a water a 60 foot circle and close down after 30 seconds. Five other sprays, in rotation, then came into piay around a one-acre plot.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 214, 10 September 1945, Page 5
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164DEVICE TO WATER CROPS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 89, Issue 214, 10 September 1945, Page 5
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