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FORESTRY AND IRRIGATION 



ment of its ancestor — an old-fashioned 

 type — and is of such ingenious con- 

 struction that it gives the maximum 

 amount of water from the source of 

 supply. Being a machine of many 



sizes it meets all requirements. It can 

 convey to the housewife what water 

 she needs from a spring any distance 

 from the house ; it can supply a whole 

 town with all the water it needs ; or it 

 can serve as the agent of conveying to 

 a dry and barren field all the water 

 necessary to irrigate the tract. Such a 

 machine, when once placed to work by 

 falling water — only a fall of two feet is 

 sufficient to convey a stream any dis- 

 tance at an altitude of sixty feet — will 

 run without any further attention day 

 and night, year in and year out, never 

 freezing, never wearing out. and never 

 in need of oiling. 



These rams are simplicity itself, and 

 combine the most perfect application of 

 hydraulics known to science. There is 

 nothing to break and nothing to get out 

 of order, and they always deliver an 

 abundant and reliable stream. 



A hand pump is out of the question 

 for any amount of work, and a wind- 

 mill runs only in a breeze, and it is worn 

 and subject to repairs, needs oiling, etc. 

 A gasolene engine requires attention, 

 needs fuel and is more expensive. None 

 of these troubles enter into the running 

 of a hydraulic ram, the expense of 

 which operation is nil. 



This kind of hydraulic ram makes it 

 possible for a number of towns and cit- 

 ies to install a system of waterworks, 

 whereas, under certain conditions, they 

 would have none. All municipalities 

 cannot afford to incur an annual ex- 

 pense of from $1,500 to $5,000 for op- 

 erating a steam plant to run a water- 

 works, but it becomes very easy for 

 them to lay out about $10 a year for 

 minor repairs where a hydraulic ram is 

 doing the work. Numerous towns 

 throughout the United States and Can- 

 ada are using such rams to supply their 

 reservoirs and stand-pipes with water. 

 Fire protection is a most urgent neces- 

 sity, and, where natural conditions jus- 

 tify it, it is hard to understand how any 

 town can well afford to be without a 

 system of waterworks where the engine 

 in question does the work. 



As evidence of the merit found in 

 these machines, it may be stated that 

 the United States Government has 

 adopted some at various points, both for 



supplying tanks used for fire protection 

 and others for water supply. 



The Rife rams which have now been 

 on the market for nearly fifteen years, 

 are used extensively here and abroad, 

 many having found their way to fields 

 of irrigation in South America, South 

 Africa, and the Hawaiian Islands. The 

 Government operates a number in the 

 Philippine Islands. 



