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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



An orchard once planted will not take 

 care of itself. It must have close atten- 

 tion to every variety of fruit. Remember 

 that you are trying to grow fruit, not 

 wood. 



Set the trees in an irrigated orchard so 

 that those requiring the least water will 

 receive the least, and vice versa. The 

 cherry needs the least and pears and ap- 

 ples next, in the order named. It is well 

 to give apples plenty of water the first 

 season after planting. Give the goose- 

 berry, strawberry and currant plenty of 

 water. The blackberry and grape will do 

 nicely with little. 



LARGE CANALS IN THE SOUTH. 



The Marion Steam Shovel Company 

 have recently made sales of three of their 

 large Ditching Dredges to be used in con- 

 structing a canal in the South. Two of 

 these Dredges have sixty-foot booms and 

 very large hulls, with vertical spuds: the 

 third one is for a lateral, and has a forty- 

 foot boom, with their patent bank spuds. 



This Company are now very busy on 

 this and other orders. They manufacture 

 a full line of excavating machinery, both 

 Steam Shovels and Dredges, and suitable 

 for all earth displacements. They have 

 the largest and best equipped plant in the 

 United States for the manufacture of this 

 line of machinery. The officers of this 

 Company are men who got their experi- 

 ence from actual work as steam shovel and 

 dredge engineers, having had from eight 

 to twenty years' experience in that capacity. 

 From this experience they were enabled to 

 get the weak and the strong points of all 

 the machines manufactured, and to im- 

 prove on the strong points and eliminate 

 the weak points from their own machinery. 

 Among their strong claims is that of sim- 

 plicity of design, as they get the same 

 results with very much less complicated 

 machinery than is generally used. Their 

 office and works are located at Marion, Ohio, 

 and they would be pleased to answer all 

 communications relative to their line of 

 machinery. 



HOT AIR ENGINES. 



It has been demonstrated in many West- 

 ern States that the water supply is col- 

 lected in basins formed by impervious 

 strata, giving an inexhaustible supply of 

 water. All that is necessary to bring the 



hidden rivers to the thirsty fields is a 

 method that can be depended upon for 

 swiftness and be sure and steady. A re- 

 cent invention in pumping engines, with 

 simply hot air for power, insures a supply 

 equal to almost any demand. The capac- 

 ity of a DeLamater Rider or a DeLamater 

 Ericsson Hot Air Pumping Engine is from 

 1,500 to 30,000 gallons of water per day, 

 which can be piped to any part of the farm. 

 These engines require very little heat to 

 run them, have no valves, do not require 

 steam and are so safe that a child can run 

 one. The manufacturers will ship an en- 

 gine to responsible parties subject to ap- 

 proval, and anyone interested should write 

 for catalogue and particulars. Address 

 The De Lamater Iron Works, 467 West 

 Broadway, New York, N. Y. 



ELECTRIC POWER STATION. 



The new power company at Niagara 

 Falls have now in successful operation 

 their new power plant, consisting of four 

 of the Leffel celebrated Niagara type of 

 Turbines, each of about 2, 200 horse power 

 capacity, or giving in all some 9, 000 horse 

 power. These Turbines drive eight gen- 

 erators of something over 1,000 horse 

 power each; generators being connected 

 directly to the shaft of each wheel, one be- 

 ing placed on each side. 



This comprises the most complete and 

 perfect electric water power plant in the 

 world. The same company have four 

 other of the Leffel Niagara Turbines, 

 using in all eight of that style of wheel. 



A GOOD LAND GRADER. 



We have received a copy of the new cir- 

 cular for 1897 descriptive of the Sbuart 

 Land grader, from which we cull the fol- 

 lowing sample testimonial: 



MOUNTAIN HOME, IDAHO, DEO. 1, '96. 

 B. F. SHUART, ESQ., 



Dear Sir: I wish to express my high 

 appreciation of the Shuart Land Grader. 

 It has made farming in irrigated districts 

 a pleasure. I would not place a price on 

 the one we have were I unable to replace 

 it. Very truly yours, 



A. B. CLARK, SUPT. 



We advise all irrigators to send for a 

 copy of this circular. For the address, 

 see advertisement of the Grader in another 

 column. 



