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makes hand agricultural implements, such as forks, 

 lioes and rakes, of which the annual output is re- 

 ported to run from 150,000 to 160,000 dozen. An- 

 other company produces potato-cutters, hand auto- 

 matic potato-planters, a potato-planter with ferti- 

 lizer attachment, a fertilizer mixer, a double-cylinder 

 high-pressure sprayer, an elevator potato-digger, a 

 potato-sorter, and short ton truck. Battle Creek has 

 long been known as a manufacturing point for grain 

 threshers. The Nichols and Shepard Company re- 

 ports an output of 2,000 separators and 400 traction 

 engines annually. The Advance, Bumely Company 

 reports its annual product at 3,000 (oil-pull) tractors, 

 300 engines, and 750 separators. Port Huron also 

 has an important place in this department of farm 

 machinery construction. The Port Huron Engine 

 and Thresher Company had its beginning at Battle 

 Creek, removing to Port Huron in 1884. Formerly 

 producing a wide variety of machines, in 1920 it re- 

 ports a more restricted activity, including 188 en- 

 gines and tractors, and 1,125 grain-threshers and 

 attachments with corn-shellers, portable saw-mills 

 and some types of road-making machinery. The 

 'Bryant Engineeiring Company manufactures ma- 

 chinery for flour-mills, grain elevators, and feed- 

 grinding plants. Two types of machines are turned 

 out ; one of these is for the fine grinding of all kinds 

 of grain, while the other is used to prepare ear corn 

 for further grinding. The concern reports the con- 

 struction of approximately 200 grinders and 50 



