The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-10-29
TO THE FARMERS OF IOWA
Improve your Waste Lands.

/ Improve your Waste Lands.
/ THE GNIE assigned have purchased the
right Of manufacturing ~ and nsins throughout
II FatenI Ditching Mac mines,
and are now having a>oumber Of Machines mar fac.
tured AZ this place, which will be ready for delivery
about the LIST Of August We also now running one
i Of said machines the Farm Of d. HARRISON, six
miles west Of the City OF Burlington, where the public
are respectfully invited TO examine the process and
results OF this Improvement, which, IL Is confidently
believed will work entire revolution in the system
| Of farming the wet hat land Of Iowa This Ma.
chine By reason OF its simplicity and the
and entire feasibility OF its management with the IN et
that the cost o. machine comes within the means Of
almost any Farmer In this State, and that the use of
machine any Farm having either wet or Hat lands
will pay the cost thsr of in ordinary crop
10 proef Of its being the most valuable OF any improve
ment ever offered TO the Farming community or Iowa
As evidence Of what this Machine is capable OF dc,nS
ana the expense attending the same We reapectmIs
oe9 cave 70 refer persons to the following rerta
Gates Of few Of tbs prosinent citizens OF Des Moines
County, who have had an opportunity Of vitpes.inr
| the machine In successful operation. s11
We the nhdersiRned have en- amined enc Of Marcus
Z Emersons Patent Ditching Machines owned bv WIN
sunderland Bro, and believe it to be valuable i'm
provement We saw It ut work, and are satisfied that
shond be brought into general II viii bring under
cultivation, alta small expense, large amount OF waste
lard. = $3.50
With It bitches be dug an expense mot 20 *
ceed twenty cents per rod As the ditch 10 Ae three
and half feet below the surface ~ W 49,,
the reach OF Frost performs the once of
age without presenting any outward obstacle to cuti
vauon, O. occupying any part Of the surface viii
m.
med ditch made two years ago upon Mr. tarr,son1.
istm six miles west OF Buriins ton, and found IL as
wafer iust ~ when cut, the grennd drained
~ oeing perfectly dry, and in good condition oY
cultivation could be desired We see no reason M
should 70 perform ito function. for YEAR,
and believe purchasers Of Machines will be able ~ ~,
bitches equally coed by few hours experience n
working them. -
Q. 9. wIGHrMAN, Co. Judge.
4. w. CARPENTER,
JAMES w. GRIMES
c. DUNHAM
WI. C0OLBAUGH
J. q. LAUMAN,
PM MeLAREN
Ine anaensned, Farmers Of Dss Mones county,
Aosa having sevsraly tested the Dching Mach ne "a
tented by Marcus Emerson. and now used ana Owned
~ Sunderland Bro OF Burlington, Iowa, by having
Trains made with the on our FARMS We dsslr. \,
ADJ our testimony to that of others who have rarnm
mended IT = destaed became OF the grea st
~ 20 me farming Interest Of this stats and Of The
west generally. The result Of the u ~ INV.
made and the benefit have derived from The use af
.ne MAehina are eeyen our most sanguine expecta.
mons, ana 80 lar Ms We have been able to learn III
same mas been he In other localities Il ia. ara
hsd "a 70 reclaim, at an iassgilns.at cost ~ -
ohtlAne anu worsehan usel rs and render the .m-
as productive, " not more than that which y. haa
before considered our besl land. ~
Ihe drains made by this Machine are large enoneh
Ior an practice purposes enough below he
20 pe beyond the reach OF frost permit the
above them g b. cultivated without the slight. i dan
ksI ~ injury " the drains. We are convinced Ihnt
tnsy Are also permanent and durable. some o. the
drains In this County usre made Win this s,snhins
yues1 ago. ehu MI Vt them n
perfect condiion they we're when they we're frrst
maae Ia Illinois and elsewhere they have been Ia use
: mncn longer time, win the result.
. Anotner very great advantage 10 be derived frcr,
mode OF Draining. and which every farmer viii
e 81 n. highest Importance, The constant
supply ~ pore stock which these drAns urnsh =
Their outlets, Summer and winter This alone in ma.s
cost Of drainage.s tas97 "a s"s
~ thsFetore most cordially recommend ths above
named MAchine 70 the farmers County and
SUITS Win entire confidence that wherever tried vili
permanent and lasting hsnsdts 10 Ill con ernsd
~. w. ROHINeON
DAVID LARAlaON.
MN. LAMMR
y. B.-AAchines fufnishsd; and ne rrht % - N.
lame Tor Conotisss townshps or fAsns, can IS par.
,hased on the most reasonable terms N ~
a. ~ applcsiion addressed 10
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