THE IREIGATION AGE. 



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The Rural Road Grader For 

 Irrigation Work 



The blade of the Rural has the proper adjustment for making V Bottom Inigatltn 

 Ditches on a slope of one and one-half to one. Any elevation can be given the 

 blade that the banks will stand. Rear end of blade raises 24 inches. Changing 

 single-tree holes in the evener, which places the near horse in the ditch, is the 

 only change needed in the Rural to adapt it to V bottom ditch work. The wheels 

 being wide apart, which best holds a grader to its work, and lets one wheel travel 

 in the point of the ditch and the other completely outside of the bank of earth 

 thrown up, leaving the slope smooth and undisturbed. 



Making a V Bottom Irrigation Pitch Two Feet Deep on a Slope of One ami one 

 Half to One. Two or Fonr Horses are L'sed. According to Requirements. 



The Rural Grader is not tipped to any extent, owing to the wheels being wide 

 apart and the axle having been made lower on the right hand side to equalize up 

 on ditch work. In a grader with the wheels close together, one, and perhaps 

 both, of the wheels must travel on the slope of the ditch, destroying the bank and 

 tipping both machine and operator to a dangerous angle. Unequaled for cleaning 

 out all deposits of silt, grass, etc., from irrigation ditches, whether dry or under 

 water, anywhere teams can be made to travel. For the Irrigation Farmer, the Rural 

 Grader and Ditcher is not equalled by any other machine if he wants one for business 

 and the greatest value for his money. Any One with considerable level land can 

 use one with much profit for opening up ditches through fields, which it will do, 

 even when the lands are under water. To make larger and more permanent 

 ditches and also to build and repair roads that the farmer is interested in. 



C. D. EDWARDS, Albert Lea, Minn. 



SAMSON TURBINE 



When the PUMP cannot be direct connected to 

 the turbine shaft, the power is usually trans- 

 mitted by gears, shafting, etc. On account of 

 the HIGH SPEED of the SAMSON, for a given 

 power, lighter and consequently CHEAPER 

 transmission machinery can be used. 



JAMES LEFFEL & CO. 



Springfield, Ohio, U. S. A. 



316 I. agon da Street 



Don't Ask Us Ask the Users 



who are all successfully building canals, ditches and railroads with the New Era Elevating Grader 

 Wickham Bros, Council Bluffs, la.; Bartlett & Kling, Scottsbluff, Neb.; Winston Bros. & Co., Minne- 

 apolis, Minn.; Alex. Mead, Greeley, Colo.; H. H. Whittier, Northfield, Minn.; P. E. Shugart, Nevada, 

 la.; Russell Condon, South Omaha, Neb. 



Write for fully descriptive catalogue showing machines adapted to all kinds of special work. 



Austin Manufacturing Co., Chicago 



N. Y. Office, 50 Church St. 



Canadian Agents, Mussens Ltd., Montreal 



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