TtaZENTY-THIRD VEKR 



PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF IRRIGATION FARMERS 

 DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS OF, IRRIQATION AND 

 GENERAL, FTARM MACHINERY". 



xxiii. 



CHICAGO. JANUARY. 



No. 3 



A DITCHING MACHINE BASED 

 ON A PRINCIPLE 



The operation of the AUSTIN DRAINAGE 

 EXCAVATOR is based on the principle that a 

 perfect ditch is one whose bottom is smooth and 

 true to grade and whose sides are sloped to the 

 proper angle. 



If you will look at the accompanying picture you 

 will notice a U-shaped frame reaching down into 

 the ditch, with its two arms extended over the 

 spoil banks. This is the guide frame along which 

 the two scraper buckets travel. They cannot de- 

 part an inch in their line of travel from this frame 

 and so must cut a ditch just the shape of the frame. 

 The contractor adjusts the frame to fit the en- 

 gineer's profile, that is he makes a template to the 

 engineer's drawing, and thereafter every foot of 

 ditch dug is dug to this template. This means 

 that the sides and bottom of the finished ditch are 

 left as firm as nature made them, that every foot of 

 dirt excavated is pay dirt; that no slope trimming 

 or cleaning of berms are required. 



The AUSTIN DRAINAGE EXCAVATOR 

 will build levees and embankments as well as dig 

 ditches. Send for our form letters and catalogue 

 S, telling how. 



F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Co. 



New York Office, 90 West Street Railway Exchange. Chicago. 111. 



Morris Machine Works 



BALDWINSVILLE. N. Y. 



Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, designed for 

 any irrigating proposition. Stnd details or 

 specifications of what is wanted and we will 

 recommend a pumping outfit to supply the need 



1 New York Office, 39-41 Cortlandt Street 

 Houston Office, Cor. Wood C, Willow Sts., Texas 

 Henion f, Hubbell, Agents, 61 N. Jefletson St., 



Chicago. 111. 



Harron. Kickard & McComb, Agents, 

 21 Fremont Street, San Francisco, Cal. 



