THE IRRIGATION AGE, 



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For Irrigation Laterals and Ditching 



Irrigated Land r 



The Austin Ditch Machine with Bank Sloping Attachment is the most useful single 

 device that has ever been offered to the irrigator, irrigation contractor or irrigative works manager. 



Irrigation Laterals with sides sloped and trimmed ready for lining can be dug complete in 



one operation and at the rate of 6 to 9 feet per minute in all ordinary 



Where over-irrigated land has to be drained the same machine will dig open drainage ditches. 



sizes. 



Closed Tile Ditches ^ or drainage, sewers, trench for water pipe or any other conduit can 

 : be dug with the same machine by removing the bank sloping attach- 

 ment. Trench up to 3 feet wide to 10 feet deep can be dug. 



The Austin Ditch Machine with Bank-Sloping Attachment is an all-steel machine 

 with working parts of special alloy steel. It digs, side slopes and cleans the ditch 

 in one operation. It has positively self-cleaning buckets and cannot clog. It is 

 mounted on caterpillar tractions which will not mire. It has dug three fe t of 

 frost and the ha.rdest adobe soil. It travels by its own power one and one-half 

 miles per hour. It digs in ordinary soil from six to nine feet of ditch per minute. 



Send for Catalog No. 200 



F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Co. 



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