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��ers, the Company watched with anxiet}- the progress of perfecting the farm engines built throughout the countr}-, and often expected to find the next season's production of this or that engine-builder just tlie thing needed by the trade ; but their hopes were never fully realized, so that, in 1876, the}' determined to take a hand in the matter themselves. Select- ing the portable engine in market nearest per- fection, the}' made such changes in it as to render it just what was wanted for threshing, wood-sawing and general farm purposes, and called it "The Aultman-Taylor Farm-Engine." The demand for it has shown that the great farming public have felt as they did, and, find- ing an engine so fully meeting its wants, has

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never 3'et allowed the Compan}^ to meet the demand. The call for them has been so large as to finall}' compel the Company to build ad- ditional shops for the exclusive building of "The Aultman-Ta3lor Farm-Engines," and the ad- dition of a traction or self-propelling engine to their list of goods will probably crowd even their new facilities to the uttermost.

For a great many years, the subject of clover- hulling has been one of great importance to the American people ; invention has lagged far be- hind the wants of the public in this particular, and, up to 1878, the nearest approach to filling the demand of the puljlic for a clover-huller has been what will, from 1878 on, be called the old-style, double-cylinder clover-huller. This machine, while an improvement on earlier de-

��vices, was essentially faulty, and never suc- ceeded in doing proper c-leaning, so that to fit the seed for obtaining a good price in market, it was necessary, after threshing it, to run it through a fanning-mill. As a result, a thresher- man, to fit himself out to do the woi'k of his customers properly, was obliged to have a grain- thresher, a clover-huller and a fanning-mill, making the entire outfit very costly and ^•ery inconvenient. The Aultman & Taylor Com- pany have seen for 3'ears that an}' one who could suppl}^ an attachment for a threshing machine which would do awa}' with the costly, awkward and inconvenient clover-huller, and its parasite, the fanning-mill, would confer a favor on his race. This has finally been accomplished in the " Allonas Clover-Hulling Attachment," patented by Joseph Allonas, the Superintendent of The Aultman & Taylor Company.

At no time since the Company commenced business in 1868, with the exception of one year, have they been able to suppl}' the demand for an}' article made by them, thus attesting, in a remarkable degree, the popular appreciation of The Aultman-Taylor goods.

In 1878, The Aultman & Taylor Company was among the largest producers of threshing ma- chinery in the world, and sold all the goods it built, with the exception of less than $9,000 worth of odd-sized machinery, and during the season was compelled to add to and increase its production several times. Even then, by working early and late with an increased force on extra time, it was unable to fill its orders. The Aultman & Taylor Company is the only large thresher concern in America which can truthfully make the above statement ; and it is only proper to say that nearly every other large thresher builder in the country has been each year building more machines than he has sold, and has been enabled to keep up the reputation of being a large builder, by having scores of unsold machines at his place of manufacture and scattered around among his agents, oftentimes

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