The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-09-27
Another Contest.
Clover Huller Victorious!
She beats the Ashland Huller, Manufactured by the Ashland
Machine Company, in Il fair and impartial trial, as the following
will show. k<ead what the Farmers, Threshers, and press a of it

osition the Wooster Agents hacked
square out" Now, l am disposed to
give honor to whom honor is due. and
will state that before the trial was had
I was the most favorable to the Ash
land Huller, andexpected to purchase
it if did the work equally as well as
the Wooster, and was anxious to see
them tested side by side and determ-
ined to see them tried together before
buying, and SO informed your agent
But when l saw the work done by
each Huller on that day, / decided
in favor OF the Wooster huller, for the
reason that it did the work best
threshing faster without choking and
not cutting the seed, requiring much
less power to run it and being more
convenient to operate. The ashland"
did choke and cut a considerable pro-
portion of the seed, which objection
alone is sufficient reason why q pru-
dent farmer would not patronize such
a machine, and wo Id prefer having
the seed left in the hull or chatf ,o
having it cut and entirely wasted /;
they cannot afford to make bro,rn bread
OF clover seed, l consider the trial
fair and impartial each machine
threshing the same kind of stuff, and
using the same team driven by the
same driver-Mr d. Schreck, whose
honor and integrity is above suspicion.
On Thursday alter the trial, Mr..
Whiting came to me and wanted
me to have another trial on the 22nd
day of Sept, 1871, at the barn of
Charles Myers, between the Ashland
and Wooster hullers, and wanted me
to agree to keep the Ashland hnIler
after the trial vas over and use it tor
a few days and see if 1 would not like
it best. l was persuaded to agree to
his proposition, provided the Woos-
ter hulier would come in competition
again at that time. but not without.
On Friday following, I saw the agents
of the Wooster huller, and told them
of the proposition OF D. Whiting.-I
They said they would not put their
feet in a trap Of that kind; that it
like u trick of MIR. Writings
to trap and slaughter the Wooster by
foul means, after having been fairly
beaten so recently. After having this
conversation with the agents Of the
Huiler, 1 decided at once to
buy the Wooster huiler, and wrote to
the Ashland Machine Company that
they need not bring their huller for
reasons already assigned.
There nercr was any agreement be
tween the agents OF the Wooster; and
The Ashland agents. 10 have another
rial at the barn If Chas. Myers, to
my knowledge; but MIR. D. hitting
wrote a letter to me, dated Ashland,
J., Sept Sth. 1871, in which he says
hat Owe are not quite sure that The
Wooster Agents at Gallon, will accept
,he challenge"
SAMUEL w. MYERS.
: Mr.. Myers is one OF the three in
iividuals to whom Mr.. Whiting now
in his trumped report of "Vic-
DRY" tor the Ashland Huller to have
'old three machines on the day of the
rial. By Mr.. Myers statement it
will be seen that he purchased the
Wooster Huller, and it will also he
cen that there was no agreement or
understanding bstween the Wooster
nd Ashland Agents to have another
rial. Mr.. Whiting feeling keenly the
of having his machine (the
Ashiand) so completely and badly
'eaten by the Wooster Huller, and
by tricks and chicanery to re-
leem a portion OF his 'last laureIs :"
nut Mr.1N1yers being a gentleman and
n honorable man. declined to be a
to the tricks OF Mr.. WHITING
nd in the exercise of his own ju.ig-
nent chose to purchase the machine ,
which he deemed to lac the best, the !
w ooster Combined Hullcr."
In conclusion, we desire TO say a
CIV words in reply to some of the false
OF the Ashland Machine
ompany-
They assert that we would not
fresh over their chaf. Now it was
'eciaily agreed before the trial COM
FENCED, b tween Mr.. Goucher, the .
-shlahd General Agent, and Mr.. Ste I
enson, the representative of the Woos-
'rr that to save time, they would not
fresh over each others chaf. This
yreement was heard by several per-
in attendance at the trial, aud it
as a wise contract on the part OF Mr..
..oucher, as the result OF the trial
oundantly shows. Again, We most v
ositively deny their assertion that
" Wooster Combined Huller was
Tor sale at less than S30O,OO
n the contrary We were credibly in-
lrmed hat the Ashland aachine Co..
d cut down the price of their HUI
r in order to make the sale to Beach
Co.
We will also further state, right
ire, that the Local Agent for the
shland HuIler, in that section of
County, in which the trial
ok place, is a brother.in-law TO the a
ntlen,en who wished to buy the Ma. II
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MCDONALD l. co. a,
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