The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1860-01-07
TO THE FARMERS OF IOWA
Imnrnva vonr Waste Ioud.

Improve your Waste Lands.
t<I'BE sSDs2h SIGNED have purchased the
7 right CT manufacturing and using throughout
\ Tie State Of Iowa, MARQUES L EMERsON's
i Patent Hitching Machines,
( and are now having number OF Machines manu- fac.
,ured at this place, which will be ready for delivery
/ about the LIST OF August We also running one
! OF said machines the Farm Of D. HARRISON, six
niles Of the City Of Burlington where the public
respectfully invited to examine the process AID
results of this Improvement, which, 1t is confidently
believed will work entire revolution in the system
| OF farming the fat lands of Iowa. This Ma
chine by reason of It's simplicity and the cheapness
and entire feasibility of its management with the +,
that the cost OF machine comes within the OF
almost any Farmer in this State, and that the of
machine on any Farm having either 1at lands
will pay the cost Their of in ordinary crop season,
Is pro Of its being the most valuable Of any improve
nient offered 10 the Farming community of iowa.
As evidence Of what this Machine capable Of doing
ana The expense attending the same, respectfully
beg leave to refer GIL to the following certif
Gates of few Of the prominent citizens OF Des Mones
County, who have had an opportunity of witnessing
| the Machine in successful operation.
We, the undersigned, haze examined one Of Marcus
Emerson's Patent Ditchns Machines, owned by Wm
Sunderland Bro and believe it to &c valuable i'm
provement. We saw it at work. and satisfied that
should be brought into general IL viii bring under
cultivation, at small expense, large amount Of
land.
With 1t bitches be dug an expense not to ex
coed twenty cents per rod As the ditch made three
and talf feet below the surface be below
the reach Of frost, II performs the office of
age without presenting any outward obstacle to cult
Walton, o. occupying any psEt of the surface VIII
these bitches rema open, and how iongf We exam
ined ditch made two years ago upon air. Larrison's
farm six miles west OF Burlington, and found 1t dis
charging water Just when cut, the ground drained
by beng perfectly dry and in good condition for
caltivation could be desired. We see no reason nv
1t should not continue perform distinction. years
aud believe purchasers of Machines will be able 10 cot
ditoies equally good BY few hours experience in
sworkihg tEem
0. C. wiGHTMAN Co. Judge
A. w. CARPENTER,
JAMES w. GRIMES,
G. DURHAM,
w. +. COOLBAUGH,
G. LAUNAN,
2. NJ McLAREN
The undersigned, Farmers Of Des Moines county,
Iowa having seversy tested the Ditchng Machine pa
tented by Marcus Emerson, and now used aud owned
BY Sunderland Bro of Burlington, Iowa. by having
drains made With The our farms, desire to
add testimony To that OF others who have recom-
meuded 1t dested become the greatest possible
benefit TO the farming interest. oil this and the
West generally The result fthe experiments We have
made, and the benefit have derived from the of
ne nachn', are oeyon our most sanguine expecta-
tions and so far we have been able to learn the
tame has osen he ca:e in other localities Il has
BLEED Us TO reclaim, at insignificant cost, large por
items Of our farms which had previously been totally
untilIsele and worsehan useless and render the same
as productive u not more SO, than that which We had
before considered our best land.
The drains made BY this Machine are large enough
or al practical purposes far enough below the surface
to be beyond the reach Of rost and permit the ground
above them to be cultivated without the slightest dan
ger Of injury I, the drains. We convinced that
they are also permanent and durable. Some Of the
drains In this County were made with this machine
more than two years ago, aud all of them remain in as
perfect cohdl ION as they we're when they we're fret
made In Illinois and elsewhere they have been in us
a much longer time, with the same result.
Another very great ADVANTAGE 70 be derived from
this node OF draining, and which every farmer will
recognize as OF the highest IL the constant
supply Of pure stock water which these drains furnish Ct
Their outlets, Summer and Winter This alone, In most
localities net all, Is worth Infinitely than the
cst Of drainage
We therefore most cordially recommend the above
named Machine TO the farmers Of this County and OF the
state, with entire confidence that wherever tried will
perform all tn it's claim for It, and result in
permanent and lasting benefits TO all erned.
NJ. W. ROBINSON,
DAVID LAR .ISON,
WM LAMME.
N. B-Machines furnished; and TIE right TO use the
same for Counties, townships farm, can be bur.
chased on the most reasonable terms Of the
ed, by application addressed to
Nm. SUNDERLAND BROS,
augis-"u Burlington, Iowa.