PROBLEMS OF IRRIGATING GRASSLAND IN CANTERBURY

Authors

  • C. Hilgendorf

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.33584/jnzg.1956.18.1058

Abstract

There are four irrigation schemes at present in Canterbury: two small ones at Redcliffe and Levels and two larger ones at Mayfield-Hinds and Ashburton- Lyndhurst. The latter two cover 48,000 and 58,000 acres. I intend to restrict my discussion of the problems of irrigating grassland in Canterbury to that part of the province covered by the Lismore silt loam with a water table seldom rising above 50ft, and with a 25 to 35in. rainfall, relatively well distributed, though with a high summer evaporation. This does not take in all the present schemes which contain some more fertile land, but it and similar soil types cover by far the greater part of both present and suggested schemes.

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1956-01-01

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