THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



There are many localities in the West, 

 and in fact all over the country, where the 

 land adjacent to the river is too high to 

 admit of the water being conveyed to it 

 through ditches by means of gravity. Un- 

 der such conditions the land is now gener- 

 ally not irrigated, particularly in the arid 

 regions, except to a limited extent in those 

 localities where vegetables and fruit are 

 raised, where the value of the crop com- 

 pensates, in a measure, for the expense of 

 pumping water by steam or gasoline en- 

 gine, both of which require fuel and an 

 engineer. The capacity of the windmill 

 is too limited to admit of its general use for 

 irrigation on a large scale. To such local- 

 ities the Austin Current Motor will prove 

 a boon. 



This motor has been experimented with 

 and tested thoroughly and its practicability 

 practically demonstrated. The only limits 

 to the power, and consequently to the 

 amount of water that can be pumped by 

 the Austin Current Motor, are the dimen- 

 sions of the paddles, the number of them 

 and the' force of the current. 



The machine, which is anchored in the 

 river, consists of a pontoon carrying two 

 endless chains, to which are pivotally at- 

 tached, at suitable distances, reversible 

 paddles having floats at their upper ends 

 that buoy them up in their course through 

 the water. By an ingenious device these 

 paddles enter and leave the water in such 

 a way that they do not detract from the 

 efficiency of the machinery, but on the 

 contrary rather add to it. To the wheels 

 put in motion by these cables is attached 

 an elevator carrying large buckets, which, 

 when entering the water to fill themselves, 

 add to the generation of power, and are so 

 arranged that when they reach the top of 

 the elevator they discharge their contents 

 with the least possible friction into a 

 trough, there to be conveyed to the shore, 

 where a reservoir has been constructed to 

 collect the water and distribute it through 

 canals and lateral ditches over the land. 



The first outlay for a current motor of 

 this description is, comparatively speak- 

 ing, not large, particularly when the enor- 

 mous enhancement of the value of the land 

 is considered, and the cost of running it is 

 nominal. It works incessantly, day and 

 night, without an attendant, and if the 

 capacity of the reservoir is sufficient, a 

 large volume of water is accumulated to 

 be used at the proper season. 



For full particulars, write to the manu- 

 facturers, the F. C. Austin Manufacturing 

 Company, of Chicago, 111., U. S. A. 



LAND GRADING. 



The Shuart Land Grader, the cut of 

 which in our advertising columns has be- 

 come so familiar to the readers of the AGE, 

 is eliciting much hearty and enthusiastic 

 praise from a widely scattered and diver- 

 sified class of patrons. The accuracy and 

 economy with which grading for irrigation 

 can be accomplished with this machine is 

 a happy surprise to each new purchaser. 



The Shuart Grader has come to be 

 recognized in the East as exceedingly con- 

 venient and useful for road and street 

 purposes. In this sphere it is designed to 

 supplement rather than to supplant the 

 big road machines in general use, and so 

 popular is it for this purpose that it is be- 

 ing purchased by townships in numbers 

 varying from a single machine to one ma- 

 chine for each road district in the township. 



In no sphere has its success been more 

 marked, however, than in the preparation 

 of the sub-grade of streets for pavement. 

 Hitherto this work has been done by hand 

 labor with picks and shovels, at great ex- 

 pense, as there has been no scraper made 

 with which the sub-soil could be planed 

 down with sufficient accuracy. The fol- 

 lowing testimonial, which is by no means 

 an unusual one, shows the great value of 

 this machine to street contractors: 



COLUMBUS, Ohio, June 6, 1896. 

 B. F. Shuart, Oberlin, Ohio. 



DEAR SIR: We beg leave to testify to 

 the merit of your Shuart Land Grader. 

 It has more than saved its price within 

 the first four days' work, having used it 

 on the finished sub-grade, in which capac- 

 ity it has each day saved the expense of 

 from ten to twenty men, with just the 

 same or better results. We find it ex- 

 tremely handy and useful. 

 Very truly, 



KINNEAR & GRAHAM. 



Important improvements have recently 

 been added to the machine. 



In 1895 there were eight hundred and 

 fifty-five creameries in Iowa. Only four 

 of the ninety-nine counties have none. 

 The total output was $13,300,000, an 

 average per factory of $15,555. 



