TWENTY-THIRD 



PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF IRRIGATION FARMERS, 

 DEALERS IN AMD MANUFACTURERS OF, IRRIGATION AND 

 GENERAL, F"ARM M ACHINERY. 



VOL. xxiii. 



CHICAGO DECEMBER. 1907. 



No. 2 



Perfect Irrigation Ditches are 

 Austin Drainage Excavator Ditches 



U An irrigation ditch must be perfect in grade and sectional profile. It is not dug to carry away waste water but to carry 

 water as a commodity from places where it is plentiful to places where it is sfcatce. Salvage, not waste, is the governing 

 motive, hence it is that irrigation ditches are dug so perfectly and often lined at great expense with stone or concrete. 



The Austin Drainage Excavator 



is a machine for digging perfect ditches, and it 



is the only machine that digs ditches with bottoms 

 true totgrade and sides to perfect slope by a sin- 

 gle operation and in one process. The origi- 

 nal soil is not disturbed or loosened an inch below 

 the required profile. It is therefore left as imper- 

 vious to leakage as it ever was and in the best 

 possible condition to serve as a foundation for lin- 

 ing if alining is desired. The spoil banks are 

 deposited far enough to the sides to leave wide 

 berms. <5 The Austin Drainage Excavator 

 specializes as a dry-land machine, although it can 

 be operated with equal facility as a floating dredge. 

 As a dry land machine, the only water it needs is 

 boiler water, hence it is an arid-region machine 

 and as much at home on the deserts of the West 

 as it is in the overflow lands of the East, where it 

 has dug hundreds of miles of drainage ditches. 

 It digs a ditch with sloping sides and smooth bot- 

 tom in one operation, moving along the work 

 under its own motive power no slopes to trim, 

 no berms to clean; no horses or mules to provide 

 with forage and water, no army of teamsters and 

 scraper holders and shovelers to pay and feed and 

 keep from striking. The illustration here shows 

 a drainage ditch. Did you ever see an irrigation 



ditch dug more perfectly? Bear in mind that the ditch shown is just 33 the Austin Drainage Excavator dug it. 



It is a completed ditch. Send for our Catalogue S and form letters; they shuw other pictures of perfect ditch work. 



F. C. AUSTIN DRAINAGE EXCAVATOR CO. 



NEW YORK OFFICE: 9O West Street 



Railway Exchange, CHICAGO, ILL. 



Morris Machine Works [ 



BALDWINSVILLE, N. Y. 



Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, designed for 

 any irrigating proposition. Send details or 

 specifications of what is wanted and we will 

 recommend a pumping outfit to supply the need 



New York Office, 39-41 Corllandt Street 



Houston Office, Cor. Wood Willow Sis., Texts 



Henion 4 Hubbell, Agents, 61 N. Jefferson St., 



Chicago, 111. 



Harron, Rickard { McComb, Agents, 

 21 Fremont Street, Sin Francisco, Cal. 



