Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-03-29 | Page 2 | Study Utah Farming

T R A II AN IAH Party From Antipodes Doming oming to Get Pointers Soil Drainage and nd Operations sj B R the purpose of studying farming and irrigation conns con con- I ns DS in a large party o of will visit the state stater r in the spring according to leant W. W Mason of the Is now in county going the extensive drainage there It Ii is' is his second 12 l within a week varied varieda a 1 short hort trip Into Colorado where 1 similar work He lIe will willin in m to California and sail for tor within a month AT- AT CALIFORNIA T. T u. u I Mason Masoh said a party of mostly service ex-service i had had come to California last I nd were now engaged in I nd practical work In the efty Iti and on the farms of that j e el A large proportion of them the process here They gathering Information for the i eminent and for th the ben benefi fl of the thern arned rn d soldiers of Australia DYING DRAINAGE ergeant Mason is particularly in- in sted in the methods used in this for the r of lands become waterlogged or ed with salt Although ir- ir has been practiced in Aus- Aus Ua 1 for only onty thirty thirty- years and in int sections t no more than ten years year e aro already showing effects of t too o much water ana much salt They Will soon have begin th the re reclaiming of these lands lithe Investigator was pleased with I Im he found practiced here VETERANS I Australia is doing many things for forAr Ar turned returned soldiers according to geant Mason These benefits are extended to service ex-service I the allies he said Large of land are being being- sold very ery and the men are given forty pay for them In addition government will advance money to tl tide e over the first or three years NT AMERICAN FARMERS Australia aUa is also offering offering induce induce- towards colonization he said American farmers In demand the of or the country Is to de- de industries to furnish a mar mar- Hor the things that come from the The country is rich In timber M I minerals but markets for the duct are far far- away N BY CALIFORNIANS two wo by the name of I fr e started irrigation at Mildura th northwestern part of or the state I torla thirty years ago There now about acres under gallon In that state Several big bigg g gallon and reclamation projects way In New South Wales the h Rochester district of Victoria iga gat ed- ed lands have advanced ed from per er acre since the g of the war lh The cul cultivation of gait ar beets is Just beginning All Allds i ds or fr fruits are are being rapidly set sett t neI splendid results results' on grains ng achieved ed Practically all of the results ri d in the way of or irrigation t on are El Elwood wood Mead 0 of California I head of or the irrigation and linage nage division of the United d States who went j Australia five II years ago and spent seven r studying Australian problems ere are openings In Aus- Aus Jl Y in agricultural and Industrial IndustrIa Sergeant M Mason s ri dairying He looks forward to a in this pursuit