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trees to a depth of several inches, and is followed 

 by a sprinkling cart to which is attached a hose 

 without a nozzle, and water is poured into the 

 loosened soil as long as the soil will absorb it. 



It is announced that the government will imme- 

 diately begin the work of enlarging and extending 

 the north main canal of the Belle Fourche irrigation 

 project in South Dakota. Twenty miles of laterals 

 will also be constructed in connection with this 

 work. The extension will irrigate several thousand 

 more acres of land. 



Using his 150-ton silo as a storage reservoir for 

 water to irrigate his farm with is the latest use to 

 which silos have been put in Oklahoma or any 

 other place. While gathering silo information for 

 the July issue of the Southwest Trail, of which he is 

 the editor, Victor H. Schoffelmayer came across 

 William Cotter, a farmer near Enid. He has a 150- 

 ton steel silo which rests on a base of concrete and 

 is water tight. He filled it last fall with kafir, which 

 he fed to his cattle, and this spring when the silo 

 was empty Mr. Cotter gave it a good coat of paint 

 inside and outside, and will use it for storing water. 



The completion of the Nile dam at Assuan, 

 Egypt, is one of the most important and daring 

 works of modern engineering. The design of the 

 work and the choice of the site are due to Sir Wil- 

 liam Willcocks. 



The first steam plow to operate on the govern- 

 ment's Shoshone (Wyo.) project, the ditches of 

 which will eventually reclaim 150,000 acres, is break- 

 ing ground near Powell. 



In view of the representations made at the re- 

 cent conference of the Water Users' Associations 

 in Washington, D. C., and recognizing that the low 

 prices for farm products in 1912 have rendered it 

 difficult for many settlers to meet their obligations 

 to the Government, Secretary of the Interior Lane 

 has issued an important public notice to all settlers 

 on national irrigation projects. 



The Federal Reclamation Service is ready to be- 

 gin development of the Lawton (Okla.) irrigation 

 project as soon as local requirements are met, ac- 

 cording to dispatches recently received from Wash- 

 ington, D. C. The department requires mortgage 

 contracts from the farmers to be benefited, guaran- 

 teeing the return of the fund expended and an 

 agreement from the city of Lawton to permit the 

 use of the city reservoir for water supply. 



are short of copies of issues of Irriga- 

 tion Age for April, June and July, 

 1913. We will pay 15 cents per copy 

 for any of these issues. Send to Irriga- 

 tion Age, 30 N. Dearborn St., Chicago, 

 Illinois. 



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The South has said goodbye to the hand labor 

 method of reclaiming waste land. Contractors 

 and land owners have found a better way of 

 digging drainage and irrigation ditches a way 

 that is faster and cheaper, too. They now use the 



BUCKEYE 

 OPEN DITCHER 



When this machine claimed to do the work of 

 100 to 150 hand laborers it was quickly put to 

 the test. It made good. It's still making 

 good and you'll find it in universal use all 

 over the South draining the swamps and irri- 

 gating the dry plains easily and economically. 



The Buckeye Open Ditcher is made in several 

 sizes, cutting ditches from 2 1 /? to 12 foot top. 

 Every machine cuts a perfect ditch clean 

 and straght, true to grade and uniform to 

 size. Also with sloping sides if desired. 



Contractors are making big profits with the 

 Buckeye and farmers are getting better crops 

 because of the Buckeye. This machine can 

 also help you if you'll give it the chance. 



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