PREFACE 



The absence of any Australian work of a general nature 

 dealing with the subject of fruitgrowing under irrigation 

 is the author's apology for placing this work before the 

 public. 



Much of the subject matter of some of the chapters 

 herein dealt with appeared in the form of articles 

 written by the author during the past four years, which 

 were printed in the pages of the Murray Pioneer. 



It is the author's hope that the following pages may 

 be of some service as a guide to prospective irrigationists 

 or to settlers new to irrigation enterprise, in helping them 

 to acquire the chief principles of Australian irrigation 

 practice, and thus to enable them to avoid the mistakes 

 made by many of the older irrigationists, who, for 

 want of information upon this subject, had often to 

 acquire their irrigation knowledge as the result of pain- 

 ful and costly experience. 



F. R. ARNDT. 



Berri, River Murray, 



South Australia, 



14th October, 1918. 



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