EMERY BROTHERS, 
PROPRIETORS OF THE 
ALBANY AGRICULTURAL WORKS, 
NO. 52 ST A TE STREET, CORNER OF GREEN. 
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TO THE PUBLIC. 
T HE long experience of the manufacturers, and une¬ 
qualled success of the 
Emery’s Patented Railroad Changeable Horse Power, 
as made and introduced by them into every part of the 
World, and having gained an immense and increasing de¬ 
mand for them, ( having sold more than Eight Hundred setts 
for the last harvest ) and requiring the Works to be kept in full 
and constant operation , with nearly one hundred workmen, 
during the whole fall and winter months to this date , to fill the 
steady demand for them, ivithout accumulating stock on hand, 
and which has been the only exception to the general stopping 
of every similar establishment in the country since October 
last , has induced the proprietors to increase their manufac¬ 
turing facilities by putting new and large Low Pressure 
Engines of three times the capacity of those removed, and 
otherwise materially extend their works. 
They have also added a Ploav Department, with all the 
known facilities and improved patterns required for the 
wholesale and retail trade. 
They solicit a continuance of the same patronage hereto¬ 
fore so liberally enjoyed, assuring their patrons that their 
Machinery, which comprises a greater variety of labor sav¬ 
ing machines than are offered by any like establishment in 
this or any other country, are unequalled in points of Uti¬ 
lity and Value, and all are constructed with especial re¬ 
gard to operating together to the best possible advantage. 
The unexampled success of the manufactures from the 
Albany Agricultural Works, and the great demand for 
them has induced several other parties to adopt the same 
style and patterns, in violation of the Letters Patent, and 
even copy the advertisements, price lists and illustrations, 
and bj 7 various other ways have endeavored, and are still 
endeavoring to manufacture and sell much inferior and 
cheaper made machines, misrepresenting them as equal 
and oftentimes as superior to those from which they have 
patterned them. 
One such manufacturer, in his advertisements publish¬ 
es a newspaper puff purporting to be a report of a com¬ 
mittee of the United States Agricultural Society, at their 
Fair at Louisville, Ky., 1857, in which he claims to have 
been awarded the Society’s First Premium Large Silver 
Medal, also a Diploma of Commendation, in competition 
with all the Horse Powers, Steam Engines, Wind Mills, 
& c., 
While the Facts are os follows: 
The said Society offered a 
Grand G-oldL Medal, 
valued at $75, for the 
Best Motive Power for General Purposes. 
Several entries were made of Horse Powers and Steam 
Engines of various kinds, both stationary and portable. 
Upon the Committees meeting, they declined to award 
the Grand Medal at all, for reasons best known to them¬ 
selves. but reported upon the several entries separately, 
awarding precisely the same “Diploma of Commenda¬ 
tion” to each of the only two Rail Road Horse Powers en¬ 
tered, with the following report:— 
“ After a most careful examination , the committee ivere with 
difficulty able to discover that either of tlum possessed any ad¬ 
vantage over the other.” 
The same award was also made to several Steam En¬ 
gines by the same committee. 
So much for the First Premium and Large Silver Medal, 
not one such award having been made. 
The committee awarded Four Silver Medals to as many 
Threshing Machines made by as many different parties. 
All the medals to be of the same kind and value, and 
without any remarks whatever as to the relative merits of 
the several entries, and including the said sett of Threshing 
Machines, made precisely in imitation of Emery’s pat¬ 
terns and especially for the said fair, and in this instance 
an extraordinarily well finished sett of machines. 
They also had been in constant operation several days 
prior to the trial before the committee, while Emery’s sett 
of machines were of the ordinary make for their custom¬ 
ers, and the Thresher had never been put to work till in 
the presence of the committee, and then with but two lots 
of wheat of fifty sheaves each. 
One lot of fifty sheaves was threshed as much quicker 
by it than with the competing machines, as it was slower 
with the next lot of fifty sheaves. 
The differences being accounted for by the difference in 
the condition of the grain and size of the sheaves. 
So much for the trial of threshing for fi ve or six minutes, 
while any trial to give any practical result of ease of team, 
quantity and quality of work, and the machines themselves, 
should require at least a whole day for each machine, and 
more tests applied than that with race-horses, (first, home 
wins,) to say nothing of the privilege allowed in racing, of 
best two in three heats, which the committee refused to 
grant for want of time to devote to so unimportant a mat¬ 
ter as a Horse Power and Threshing Machine. 
If reports of committees were required, we would say 
