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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



Should this plant prove a success it will revolu- 

 tionize the system of raising water by artificial means 



THE INGLETON STEAM PLOW. 



BY GEOEGE CALVERT. 



Water Lifted 10 Feet High by Compressed Air. 



profitably from a depth of 150 feet by large plants, and 

 will enable those having artesian wells to increase their 

 flow from two to four times the natural flow. 



I am watching with much interest the success or 





Boiler and Compressor. 



failure and will report to THE IRRIGATION AGE the re- 

 sults. 



Send $2.50 for The Irrigation Age 

 1 yea.r, a.nd the Primer of Irrigation 



The labor involved in raising a crop is the prin- 

 cipal cost and if the expense of the labor necessary for 

 the planting, cultivation and harvesting is reduced one- 

 half through the employment of new methods then the 

 market valuation of the crop is proportionately reduced 

 so soon as other general competitors adopt the same 

 methods. This is not only true in agricultural pursuits, 

 but in every other branch of labor the same revolution 

 of previous conditions takes place with the introduction 

 of labor saving machinery. If, for example, the actual 

 cost of producing a- bushel of wheat by the ordinary 

 manner of cultivation is fifty cents and the market price 

 is seventy-five cents, it can not be expected to main- 

 tain the selling price at the same figure, if by new 

 methods the actual cost of growing is reduced to twenty- 

 five cents per bushel. Competition is bound to ulti- 

 mately force down valuations on such products to a 

 defined legitimate basis. 



No other industry in this country involves such 

 large monetary interests as that of farming, yet farm- 

 ing machinery is still in sc crude state of development. 

 The fact is, that while the United States sells farming 

 implements in large quantities to every country on 

 the globe, the field of invention offers varied oppor- 

 tunities in the perfection of this class of machinery. 



The accompanying illustrations show the possibil- 

 ities that have been recently attained in a machine for 

 plowing land. This steam plow, named after its in- 

 ventor, Ingleton, will be placed upon the market at 

 an early future date. The successful operation of this 

 ingenious apparatus was fully demonstrated several 

 years ago in actual plowing tests, and its practicability 

 was not found wanting in any particular. At the St. 

 Louis Fair the Ingleton plowing outfit was on exhibi- 

 tion and received a special diploma for- excellence and 

 perfect operation. 



It has a capacity of plowing a series of furrows 

 in one cut across a field fifty feet wide ; thus the econ- 

 omy from its use can be fully appreciated. The ma- 

 chine possesses radically novel construction over other 

 steam plowing outfits heretofore designed and tested. 

 The principal departure from the general type is the 

 operations of the plows themselves, which work in a 

 direction at right angles to the course of the engine. 

 The plow apparatus consists of a steel frame of the 

 desired length (30 to 50 feet) mounted upon a series 

 of rollers and attached to the rear of a heavy traction 

 engine by suitable steel arms. Upon the steel frame are 

 mounted a series of carriages running on wheels which 

 traverse the circuit of the frame. Each carriage carries 

 a shank mounted in a vertical slideway; to the lower 

 end of the shanks are attached the plows. The slide- 

 way construction permits the plows to rise and fall in 

 order that they may accommodate themselves to the 

 undulating surfaces of the land. This arrangement is 

 essential to the proper working of the apparatus, as 

 in plowing a strip fifty feet in width in one operation 

 the 'plows would not conform to the unevenness of the 

 land if rigidly affixed to the frame. The power for 

 driving the plowing mechanism is obtained from one 

 of the rear axles of the traction engine and transmitted 

 to a crank shaft on the frame by means of a link-belt* 

 chain. Connected to this shaft is a second chain which 



