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THE IRRIGATION AGE. 



How to Get More Wear Out of 



BALL BAND 



RUBBER FOOTWEAR 



It's not only the wear your rubber 

 footwear gets while you work in it, 

 but how you care for it after you get 

 home and take it off, that makes it 

 last a long time or a short time. 



For the benefit of the eight and 

 one-half million men who wear "Ball- 

 Band" Rubber Footwear, we have pre- 

 pared a booklet 



"More Days Wear" 



This booklet is sent free. It tells you 

 how to treat your rubber footwear so 

 as to get the most out of it. 



"Ball- Band" boots are vacuum cured. 

 During the vulcanizing this process 

 causes a tremendous pressure on ths 

 fabric and rubber, and makes the boot 

 one solid piece. 



When you buy rubber footwear look for the 

 Red Ball. It's the "Ball-Band" Trade Mark 

 and it stands for Quality. 



Mishawaka Woolen Mfg. Co 



346 Water Street 

 MISHAWAKA, IND. 



The House That Payi 



Millions for Quality" 



IoF 16,000 

 Power Plants 



The engine in the power plant is the heart of the 

 factory. From it pulsates the energy that furnishes 

 the life blood to your business. It must be reliable, 

 dependable and afford continuous operation. Choose 

 for your power plant the 



Bessemer Oil Engine 



(Awarded Gold Medal Panama-Pacific Exposition) 



These engines have won their reputation through 

 sheer merit, covering a period of time that proves their 

 enduring qualities. They are built for strength and 

 to stand the strain of continuous operation. Burning 

 fuel oils of a low grade, the cost per H. P. is less than 

 any other motive power, with the possible exception 

 in certain instances of water power. 



The Bessemer Gas Engine Co. 



12 York Street Grove City, Pa. 



Our complete line: Fuel Oil Engines from 150 to 200 H. P. 

 Gas Engines, 5 to 330 H. P. Kerosene Engines, itoio H.P. 



Here is what our agent of Big Falls, Wis., says, his date Oct. 30th, 1915: 



"Were I, for any reason, to lose the Litchfield agency, I believe I should give up 

 handling spreaders altogether. This, because my personal faith in the Litchfield 

 Spreaders is so great that I could never learn to "talk up" any other make. You 

 have the others beaten on so many points that I believe you are perfectly justi- 

 fied in claiming to have the only 'Best' machine on the market. 

 "Your endless apron, arranged so that it is self -cleaning, thereby making a 

 machine for cold weather use as well as for warm weather, I consider one of the 

 very strongest points in favor of the Litchfield Spreader. 



Yours very truly, J. E. Ryan." 



Statements such as this from men who KNOW, have led us to investigate what the consumer 

 actually thinks of the Litchfield Spreader. The replies to a frank letter asking for an opinion and 

 asking for a criticism, if they had it to offer, have brought us such a mass of compliments that it is 

 going to be absolutely impossible to publish them on account of the large volume. 



If any reader of this paper is interested, however, we will be pleased to furnish as much of this 

 information as he may care to read. 



LITCHFIELD MF^. CO., 



Waterloo, Iowa 



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