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��several distinct advantages : (a) in simplicity ; (b) economy in power ; (c) economy in fuel ; (d) increased durability; (e) decreased weight; (/) ease of manage- ment ; [ff) decreased liability to delays from breakage. We should think these advantages would add at least $100 to the value of The Aultman-Taylor Traction Engine.

4. The Aultman-Taylor Traction Engine has what all others lack, and what every traction engine should have, and that is a simple, easily managed arrange- ment for reversing the motion and propelling the en- gine backward as well as forward. In bad roads, and especially when the roads are full of mud-holes, this really is a prime necessity, and it is a feature we cannot praise too highly, as many men will now feel free to buy traction engines who have always refused to buy them because they feared in heavy roads they might get " stuck in the mud," and, being unable to get any purchase by backing, would be greatly annoyed and delayed.

The points named by us, taken in connection with the general excellence of The Aultman-Taylor Traction Engine, are so important as to lead us to say that, un- questionably, in our opin'ion, this engine is worth to any purchaser more than any traction engine in the market; and as it meets and overcomes all the objec- tions ever made to traction engines, it must find a very general and, we cannot help but feel, an enormous de- mand.

���THE AULTMANMAYLOR COMPANY. MANSFIELD OHIO.

��THE AILTMAN -TAYLOR SELF - PROPELLINU ENGINE.

��This view of the traction engine shows its motion on the road. The team is used onl}- to guide the engine — it runs itself.

Other views of various attachments are also annexed, showing the modes of saving labor in the nineteenth century — a contrast with pioneer daj's, vivid indeed, and one that cannot fail to teach a lesson regarding the path of progress in little more than half a centur}'.

The best evidence of any machine's useful- ness is a practical test. In order to show the solid construction of The Aultman & Ta3'lor Thresher the annexed letter fully explains itself It is from Mr. N. R. Darling, of Fredricktown, Knox Co., Ohio, and is dated June 20, 1876.

The Aultman Sj" Taylor Company, Mansfield, Ohio :

Gentlemen — In answer to your wish to know how I like my machine, and what I think of its durability, I am happy to say, I bought the first Aultman & Taylor Thresher ever built; I bought it in 1868, and this will be the ninth season ; I have run it each season, doing a very large business in wheat, oats, barley, flax and timothy, and while worn a good deal, I believe it will last a number of years yet. I can't answer you how long it will last, but I believe it will be running when all the endless-apron or Pitts' Threshers sold this year will have broken down, worn out and played out. Not a single endless-apron machine sold in my section the year I got my Aultman & Taylor, or the year after (1869), is now of any account, all of them being worn out altogether, or so much racked that they can't do any fair amount of work. Your machine saves the farmers' grain so well, and cleans it so nice, that I have every season had from one-third to one-half more, and sometimes double the work, for my old machine that any endless-apron thresher could get. So, you see, an Aultman & Taylor Thresher, if you count the num- ber of bushels threshed, will outlast three or four end- less-apron or Pitts' Threshers. I am well acquainted

with the R, S , P , and C

Threshers, and do not hesitate to say that I think my old Aultman & Taylor has more life in it yet than a new machine of either of these makes.

I don't think that any of the machines just named, or any other endless-apron machine, will be sold here this season, for all our best farmers say they waste such a terrible amount of grain that they will not have any of them do a bushel's threshing, if they can help it ;

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