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THE 1 fi R I G A T I N AGE. 



If Bugs, or Hail, or Drouth, or Other 



Calamity Should Destroy One-Fourth 



of Your Crop 



You would call it a direct loss. What do you call it 

 when BY NOT USING A MONITOR DOUBLE 

 DISC you raise a FOURTH LESS than you would 

 have raised had you used a Monitor Double Disc? 



These are Facts Testified t by Grain 

 Growers Themselves 



The Monitor is approximately one-third lighter draft than any other machine of equal 

 capacity. It will work where any other drill will work, and often under conditions where 

 no other drill can work. 



It is the only drill that puts all the seed at the bottom of a clean, wide furrow, in two 

 rows at an even depth, and covers with a uniform amount of earth, by reason of which 



It requires one-fifth less seed than other machines it all grows, no waste. 



It increases the yield of wheat usually from three to seven bushels per acre. Other 

 grains in proportion. 



Wheat grown fromseed sown by it will grade higher and consequently bring a higher price. 



The Increase in Yield on Fifty Acres will Pay for 

 the Drill 



Read carefully this letter from Mr. Ed. Warner. He 

 would rather pay for a Monitor Double Disc than to 

 accept any other make as a gift. He knows the Monitor 

 will give him his money back and a profit besides. 

 When he leases his land he makes the tenant agree to 

 use the Monitor Double Disc. He realizes that the 

 yield will be larger and the grade higher, consequently 

 his share at settlement time will be greater. 



Bucklin, Kans., 9-1 t-10. 

 Moline Plow Company. 



Gentlemen: You ask for my experience with the double disc Monitor drill. 



I own and operate nine hundred acres of land here and last season put out four 

 hundred acres of wheat. I used an engine to which I attached two drills, the Monitor 

 20-6 double disc and one 10-8 single disc of another make. 



The wheat sown with the double disc Monitor came up six to seven days sooner than 

 the wheat sown with the single disc. It was much better stand, every grain seemed to 

 have germinated, while the wheat sown with the single disc, not more than two-thirds 

 seem to have germinated. 



It made a more rapid growth and stood the winter much better, also the dry, windy 

 weather much better and as near as could be estimated made 25 per cent better yield. 



I have rented my land this year for wheat and have made it a part of a 

 signed contract with the tenant that the wheat should be sown with a 

 double disc Monitor drill. 



My experience with the double disc Monitor drill is such that I would 

 buy a double disc Monitor drill rather than be furnished with any other 

 make free of charge. 



Any of this statement can be verified by the farmers in my vicinity who watched 

 the results and I would be glad to answer inquiries from anyone interested. 



With best wishes for the Monitor Double Disc drill, I am, 



Yours truly, ED. WARNER. 



We manufacture every style of drill made in the United 

 States and think each style the best in its class, but urge our 

 friends to use the Monitor Double Disc for the reason that we 

 know there is no other style of drill, made by us or anyone else, 

 anywhere, that will produce as profitable results. 



These drills are sold in nearly every town. If your dealer does 

 not handle them he can get one for you. Look after it early. 



MOLINE PLOW COMPANY 



MOLINE, ILLINOIS 



Makers of the Famous Moline Plows anil Other Flying Dutchman Farm Tools. 

 Mandt Wagons and Bob Sleds, Heniey Boggle;, Light Running National and 

 Mandt Manure Spreaders, Free.iort Carriage Co. Vehicles and Monitor Drills 



The ditch will be twenty-nine miles in length, will water 

 14,000 acres and must be completed for u=e in 1912. 



Horticulturists near Billings are interested in irriga- 

 tion by pumping and it is claimed that about 12,000 acres 

 of orchard land wll be recliamed by this method. The 

 experiments in pumping, as conducted on smaller tracts, 

 have been successful. It is claimed that if the larger 

 project can be brought to a successful conclusion there 

 will be many other plans outlined in the near future. 



Reports from Chicago stated that the Conrad Land 

 and Water Company had defaulted on its January bond 

 interest and that foreclosure proceedings are in prospect. 

 This company is capitalized at $1,000,000 and has issued 

 bonds to the amount of $1,016,000. It is estimated that 

 $500,000 is necessary to complete the system. 



Commissioners of the Yellow Stone Irrigation dis- 

 trict are said to have closed negotiations with the National 

 Securities Company for the sale of district bonds amount- 

 ing to $116,000. The proposed canal will water 15,000 

 acres lying in the Yellow Stone Valley between Sanders 

 and Forsyth. 



To discover the possible effects of seepage from the 

 proposed irrigation canal now under construction in Gran- 

 ite County, E. Tappan Tanatt, President of the Jbrdan- 

 Tanatt Engineering Company of Helena and Spokane, 

 has recently finished exhaustive investigations. It is pre- 

 dicted that the result of these investigations will have an 

 important bearing on the operations of irrigation com- 

 panies in Montana. 



NEW MEXICO. 



Farmers owning property west and southwest of 

 Deming are interested in irrigation by pumping. 

 Numerous pumping plants are now being installed and it 

 is claimed that large tracts of land will be irrigated in 

 this way. 



Incorporation papers have been filed by the Bigg_s 

 Irrigation Company of Willard, Torrance County. Capi- 

 talization is $50,000. Incorporators and directors are S. 

 V. Bigg;, Frederick Biggs, W. W. Hubbard of Willard. 

 It is proposed to install an electrical pumping system. 



Santa Fe newspapers state that negotiations are 

 pending between the French Irrigation Company, the 

 Maxwell Irrigation Company and the Eagle's Nest Irri- 

 gation project of Colfax County, with a view to consolida- 

 tion. George T. Nicholson of the Santa Fe System is said 

 to be interested. 



Reports from Santa Fe state that the Abreu-Raydo 

 ranch, near Springer, consisting of 35,000 acres, has been 

 sold to the Hagedorn Investment Company of Denver for 

 $350,000. The new owners propose to colonize the land 

 after an irrigation system has been constructed. 



An irrigation company operating in Valencia County 

 is forming the new town of Sais. The Irrigation Com- 

 pany has 20,000 acres of land, which it is proposed to 

 irrigate by waters stored in the canyon near the new town. 



J. C. Fields, a civil engineer from Denver, is in charge 

 of the surveying work for the proposed Logan dam north 

 of Tucumcari. The original survey embraces about 

 75,000 acres. Proper authority for the construction work 

 has been secured from the commissioners of Quay County. 



The Hagerman Irrigation Company of Hagerman is 

 arranging to construct a cement bl'ock-head at its canal 

 to control water from the Hondo. It will be about 140 

 feet in length and 17 feet high. 



Reports from Carlsbad state that the Reclamation 

 Service is makin^ surveys for additional construction on 

 the government project. The McMillan reservoir will be 

 enlarged and the main canal repaired. 



From Albuquerque it is reported that McBee and 

 Hockenhull are prepared to reclaim 12,000 acres near 

 Melrose by an electrical pumping system. It is proposed 

 to have water ready for use for spring planting. Bonds 

 will be issued. W. D. McBee of Clovis, a former member 

 of the legislature, heads the new concern. 



The American Sugar Refining Company of New York 

 has made a proposition to farmers near Hagerman to 

 install pumping plants on irrigated land and to locate a 

 sugar factory near that point, providing farmers agree to 

 plant a specified acreage to sugar beets. Farmers are 

 said to look with favor upon this proposition. 



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