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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



of 'rice and sugar lands located on this 

 island. He states that aside from his 

 work in connection with drainage mat- 

 ters, he will make an exhaustive study 

 of irrigation methods and that upon 

 his return to Japan will present a re- 

 port on reclamation of swamp and 

 arid lands. 



"WINTON SIX.' 



Alexander Winton, Discussing Auto- 

 mobiles, Says Six-Cylinder Will 

 Be Standard Type for 

 Many Years. 



Does the six-cylinder car mark the 

 last radical improvement of the au- 

 tomobile? 



Alexander Winton, president of the 

 company that bears his name and the 

 only big manufacturer in America 

 who produces sixes exclusively, be- 

 lieves it does. 



"Of course," says Mr. Winton, "no 

 sensible man pretends to forecast the 

 future absolutely, but it does not seem 

 possible that a car superior to the six 

 will be made, at least within many 

 years. Certainly no development is 

 yet in sight. Advocates of simplicity 

 look with hope toward the two-cycle 

 motor, and yet, though endless and 

 fortune-wasting attempts have been 

 made to put this form of motor to 

 the front, there is but one maker in 

 America who has been able to get a 

 single annual dividend from it. 



"There are those who have a linger- 

 ing hope that the future may pro- 

 duce a successful gasoline turbine, but 

 there is no present foundation upon 

 which that hope may rest. 



"An American inventor has lately 

 made a stir abroad with a yalveless 

 four-cylinder motor, in which two 

 slotted sleeves, moving between the 

 piston and the cylinder walls, pro- 

 vide inlet and exhaust ports. The 

 moving parts of this construction are 

 as numerous as in a motor of usual 

 four-cycle construction, and, added 

 complication, seems to produce only 

 the absence of valve noise, which, 

 reasonably, might be more easily 

 eradicated. The significant fact, how- 

 ever, is that the British company 

 which took up the manufacture of the 

 valveless engine, displayed at the 

 Olympia show, a six-cylinder car, the 

 first it ever produced, so that we can 

 only conclude that even this most 

 highly developed four-cylinder car 

 still lacks a much desired something 

 that the six supplies. 



"We hear less now than ever be- 

 fore of the 'added complication' of the 

 six, of the terrors of ignition, carbure- 

 tion and the valve timing of the six. 

 Present silence may well be taken to 

 mean that views have changed. More 

 manufacturers have entered the six 

 (field, which in part acounts for the 

 silence. But the maker who produces 

 both fours and sixes cannot very earn- 

 estly advocate either type, so that 

 from such men we need not expect 

 startling views either way. 



"Personally I am of the opinion that 

 the six has become the high-powered 

 cars, and that it will remain standard 

 for many years." 



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