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 AN AUSTRALIAN IRRIGATION SCHEME COMPILED FROM OFFICIAL SOURCES Although it may be pioneer of canal ir-igation scale, and she still has said that India engineered upon a was the a large larger area under such in-igation than any other country in the world, it, does not follow experiments such as Italy recent areas. and and the Unified she has nothing to learn from the selected methods of other countries, Stab. es, which have in cultivating years greatly The conditions population extended their canal both of climate and are in many ways irrigated of the different- documents of the New prove of interest. The great Australian that the following description of one of the most im- portant of them which we have collated from official "l[urrumbidgee In'igation Scheme," because the water is derived from the to utilize the flood a large dam. The river of that name, is designed waters which are impounded by augmented ordinary ttow .Passes South Wales Government will project, known as the but it is at least worth while to what is being done elsewhere. We believe attention has yet been paid in India to canal irrigation schemes of Australia; be acquainted with that little the new and we hope