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THE 



CHICAGO, ILLINOIS 



With Which Is Merged 



National 



APRIL, 1913 



'Vol. XVIII 



Journal 



- REGISTERED U.S. PATENT OFFICE 



No. 6 



In Addition to Digging Perfect Frost -Proof 



F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator Co. 



Railway Exchange, CHICAGO 

 AGENTS WANTED IN OPEN TERRITORY 



and Erosion-Proof Ditches, with 

 exactly shaped banks and berm, 

 AUSTIN EXCAVATOR TYPE A 

 will build levees with efficiency- 

 factors that make consideration of 

 the dipper dredge out of the 

 question. 



You Need no Water-Filled bor- 

 row pit to float in. Austin Buckets 

 take up a/7 earth, and the spoil 

 conveyor cuts down teaming costs, 

 because the material is delivered 

 to a distance. 



You Can Dig Both Ways with 

 Austin Machines. Self-tracking 

 attachments, all steel construction, 

 self-cleaning buckets complete the 

 bill. 



-Please cut this out- 



To write to F. C. Austin Drainage Excavator 

 Co., Railway Exchange, Chicago, 111., for 

 Catalogue "S" 



Morris Machine Works 



BALDWINSVILLE, N. Y. 



Centrifugal Pumping Machinery, de- 

 signed for any irrigating or dredging prop- 

 osition. Send details or specifications 

 of what is wanted and we will recommend 

 a pumping outfit to supply the need. 



New York Office, 39-41 Cortlandt Street 



HENION & HUBBELL - - General Agents 



223-231 North Jefferson St., Chicago 



HARRON, RICKARD & McCOMB - - Agents 

 San Francisco and Los Angeles, California 



H. A. PAINE, Agent - 



Houston, Texas 



Lessons from Deep Till- 

 ing Experiments. 



Important Decisions by 

 Secretary Lane. 



Seed Growing in South- 

 ern Idaho. 



Country Roads of Con- 



