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PUBLISHED IN THE INTEREST OF IRRIGATION F/VRMERS, 



DEALERS IN AND MANUFACTURERS OF, IRRIGATION AND 



GENERAL, fARM M AC MINER V. 



XXIII. 



CHICAGO. FEBRUARY. 1908. 



No. 4 



A Machine for Building Levees 



The ordinary excavating machine is a failure as a levee builder, for several reasons, but we shall 

 mention only one reason here. It is this grab buckets and dippers take out the earth in large pieces; if 

 the earth is at all sticky, the pieces are almost bucket size when they are dumped onto the levee embank- 

 ment. The result is that a very loose em- 

 bankment is produced, which has to be 

 worked over by breaking up the large pieces 

 and compacted in any possible way to serve 

 as a levee at all satisfactory. 



The AUSTIN 

 Levee Machine 



does away with all this trouble. It excavates 

 the earth by means of scraper buckets, which 

 take off thin shavings. It makes no differ- 

 ence how sticky the earth may be, the shav- 

 ing action of the scraper puts it into the very 

 best possible shape for levee embankment. 

 In a word 



The Austin Levee Machine Is a machine which 

 not only excavates the earth, but which also 

 prepares that earth for embankment construc- 

 tion, by reducing it to fine particles. 



Our Catalogue No. S and form letters describe the operation of this machine in detail and will 

 be sent on request. 



F. C. Austin. Drainage Excavator Company 



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



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 (Mice, 39-41 Cortlandt Street 



Houston Office, Cor. Wood 4 Willow Sts.. Texas 



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



Chicago, III. 



Harron, Rickard McComb, Agent*, 

 21 Fremont Street, San Francisco, Cal. 



