WATER
&
LAND
Case
Studies
IRRIGATION
Farming
MURRUMBIDGEE
MURRAY
This
270
page,
illustrated
hard
cover
book
with
dust
jacket
(165mm
x
245mm,
6.25"
x
9.5")
was
published
by
Australian
National
University
Press,
Canberra,
1966
and
is
a
First
Edition.
It
was
written
by
Trevor
Langford-Smith
and
John
Rutherford,
Department
of
Geography,
University
of
Sydney
and
is
illustrated
with
detailed
maps,
charts,
graphs
and
line
drawings.
'The
two
case
studies
in
this
book
appraise
Australia's
largest
irrigation
schemes,
those
of
the
Murray-Murrumbidgee
river
systems.
Because
an
absolute
shortage
of
water
and
a
notoriously
erratic
rainfall
severely
restrict
industrial
growth
and
closer
settlement,
most
Australians
accept
and
demand
government-implemented
water
conservation
projects,
including
irrigation.
The
authors'
primary
concern
in
this
book
is
not
with
economic
wisdom
of
such
irrigation
development;
they
accept
some
expansion
as
inevitable.
But
they
condemn
acceptance
of
specific
projects
in
which
official
assessments
stress
engineering
or
agronomic
issues
at
the
expense
of
less
spectacular
but
equally
vital
sociological
or
economic
aspects.'
The
contents:
Introduction
Problems
and
Prospects
of
Irrigation
-
Trevor
Smith
Part
1
Murrumbidgee
Irrigation
Settlement
A
Study
of
irrigation
planning,
establishment
and
growth
1.
Background
2.
The
Physical
Setting
3.
Irrigation
Planning
and
Construction
4.
Early
Irrigation
Settlement
5.
Aftermath
of
World
War
1
6.
The
Depression
Years
7.
World
War
2
and
After
8.
Review
and
Synthesis
Appendices:
i.
Survey
of
large
area
and
horticultural
farms
ii.
Irrigation
production
statistics
References
Part
2
Integration
of
Irrigated
and
Dryland
Farming
in
the
Southern
Murray-Darling
Basin -
John
Rutherford
- Outline
of
the
Problems
- The
Concept
of
Integration
- Designing
a
Field
Study
of
Integration
- Fruit-Vegetable
Production
by
Closer
Settlement
- Dairying
by
Closer
Settlement
- Sheep
Raising
by
Extensive
(Partial)
Irrigation
of
the
Riverine
Plain
- Sheep
Raising
by
Intensive
Irrigation
Irrigation
of
the
Riverine
Plain
- A
Mail
Survey
of
Dryland
Farms
- Regional
Patterns
of
Integration
in
the
Southern
Murray-Darling
Basin
- Some
Economic
Problem
and
the
Future
- References
The
book
is
in
good,
clean,
tight
condition.
It
is
ex-library
with
'cancelled'
stamps,
a
mylar
cover,
and
the
two
first
blank
endpapers
have
the
bottom
corner
cut
out
neatly.
The
back
cover
jacket
has
a
two
inch
by
one
inch
section
cut
out
at
the
top
edge.
It
weighs
700g.