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THE IRRIGATION AGE 



Fairbanks-Morse Irrigation Machinery 



OIL ENGINES AND 



Engines and pumps designed and made 

 in our own factory. High efficiency 

 guaranteed. Pumps are of especially 

 strong construction and will handle 

 large* quantities of water economically 

 and efficiently. 



CENTRIFUGAL PUMPS 



Our oil engines develop as much power 

 on a gallon of kerosene or distillate as 

 on a gallon of gasoline. Very econom- 

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Ask for Catalog No. 650-AI1 



Fairbanks, Morse & Co. 



900 S. Wabash Avenue 

 Chicago, 111. 



Wagon and Portable Scales, Electric Light Plants, Windmills, Feed Grinders 



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Farmers' Fortunes 



Easiest to Make in the 

 AMERICAN Northwest 



Make YOUR money farming in your OWN country no place 



on earth offers you greater agricultural opportunities, finer 



climate, better lands or a greater variety of big yielding, money 



making crops than our own AMERICAN Northwest. You are 



positively missing wealth-creating chances to better yourself, 



to make more money, to live a heathful, profitable farming 



life in America's most ideal farming, stock, gardening and fruit regions if you do not 



write for our HANDSOMELY ILLUSTRATED BOOKLETS about the rich lands and 



openings for YOU along the NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILWAY lines. 



Here are about 30,000,000 acres of Government Homestead Lands 

 / valuable lands available to you for proving up under the new and 

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NORTHERN PACIFIC RY 



Locate in this land of prize crops and cattle. The world's greatest 

 prize for wheat, a $5,000 tractor outfit, was won by farmers in Mon- 

 tana on our line. The farm of Ed. Conley, near McKenzie, N. D., 

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D Minnesota D North Dakota D Montana D Washington D Idaho D Oregon 



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Use KEROSENE Engine Free! 



Amazing; "DETROIT" Kerosene! 

 shipped on 15 days* FREE Trial, 

 kerosene cheapest, safest, most ] 

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 ever given on reliable farm enj 

 not, pay nothing. No waste, no r 

 ration, no explosion from coal oil. 



Gasoline Going: Up! 



Gasoline ifl 9cto 15c higher than 

 coal oil. Still going up. Two 

 pints of coal oildo work of three 

 pints gasoline. 



Amazing "DETROIT" 



Only engine running on Coal \ 

 Oil successfully, uses alcohol, gas- 

 olineand benzine, too. Starts with- , 

 out cranking. Only three moving I 



parts nocmma no sprocket no 



gears no valves the utmost In simplicity, power and strength. 

 Mounted on stidi. All sizes, 2 to 20 h. p., in stock read; to 

 hip. Engine tested before crating. Comes all ready to run. 

 Pumps, saws, threshes, churns, separates milk, grinds feed, 

 shells corn, runs home electric lighting plant. Prlces(stripped), 

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Detroit Engine Works, 301 Bellevue Ave., Detroit. Mich. 



Gates and Valves 



Are you sending irrigation water through 

 dirt ditches? If so, half of it is seeping 

 down through the sand, and your money 

 is going with it. 



We are the originators of the scientific 

 irrigation system. Our Gates and Valves 

 are the product of many years' investiga- 

 tion, study and improvement the best in 

 the world. 



Install our economical irrigation system 

 as others are doing and do it before you 

 lose in the race for dollars through waste- 

 ful methods and keen competition. The 



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1226 EAST 28th STREET, 

 LOS ANGELES, CAL. 



Will plan your irrigation sys- 

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 ward our booklet on up-to-date 

 Irrigation Systems, 7th Edition 

 just printed. 



