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IRRIGATION AGE 



VOL. xxv 



TITLE REGISTERED U.S.PATENT OFFICE 



CHICAGO, JULY 1910 



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THE TWO SIZES OF DITCH 



Ditch Belnz Out with Sloping Banks An Austin Drainage Excavator Ditch. 



- OUR FULL LINE COMPRISES 



The Austin Levee Builder 

 The Austin Side Hill Ditcher 

 The Austin Tile Ditcher 



The Austin Highway Ditcher 

 The Austin Drainage Excavator 

 The Austin Orange Peel Ditcher 



shown in the accompanying view were 

 dug by the machine illustrated. 

 This machine can dig any other sizes 

 between the two shown, with any slope 

 of bank desired. It can dig a U-sec- 

 tion as well as a trapezoidal section. 

 All that is necessary to accomplish 

 these changes is to alter the guide 

 frame (templet) which carries the self- 

 cleaning excavating buckets. 



This 



AUSTIN DRAINAGE 

 EXCAVATOR 



ditch looks like a ditch, doesn't it? It 

 looks like a ditch that will stand, too. 

 It will stand the sides are sloped, the 

 spoil banks are away from the edges, 

 the cut is made cleanly without dis- 

 turbing the ground outside the section. 

 This is the only way to make a perma- 

 nent ditch. 



The Austin Drag Line Excavator 



The Austin Rolling Platform Traction 



The Austin Stump Puller and Grubber 



We Sell Outright or Lease. 



Send for Catalogue ' 



F. C. AUSTIN DRAINAGE EXCAVATOR CO. 



N. B. AGENTS WANTED IN UNOCCUPIED TERRITORV 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



Morris Machine Works 



Baldwinsville, N. Y. 



Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, 

 designed for any irrigating propo- 

 sition. Send details or specifica- 

 tions of what is wanted and we 

 will recommend a pumping outfit 

 to supply the need. 



New York Office 

 39-41 Cortlandt Street 



Houston Office 

 Cor. Wood 6? Willow Sta .Texas 



Henion & Hubbell, Agents, 



223-231 N. Jefferson St., Chicago. 



Harron. Rickard & McComh. 



Agents 



21 Fremont St.. S. Francisco. Cal. 



H. A. Paine. Agent. 



Houston. Texas. 



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