Murrumbidgee Irrigation Area Research Articles

Yanco irrigation area

Abstract It is well known that the semi-arid soils of the Murrumbidgee irrigation area contain practically all the essential elements of fertility, and only require the application of the water under proper irrigation methods to produce succulent crops of various kinds. The progress reports supplied by Mr. L. A. B. Wade, the executive officer of the Irrigation Trust, have shown that the growth under irrigation has even up to the present been in many cases phenomenal, and with the extension of the irrigation area to the Mirrool subdivision there is every reason to believe that the area now thrown open to settlers will before long become a district as fertile as the valley of the Nile.