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Show ' oo COMPETITION WAS ONCE VERY KEEN Chicago, Nov. 1. Professor Coulton of tho University of Minnesota was the next witness Professor Coulton said that in 1900 he was employed as an expert mech- 1"r''1W.'-i'jfti')iiji -"--"" - -1 ' -1 - ' " ' ' ' - ' " anlclan by the McCormlck Harvester company in Minnesota. He said there was keen competition among the harvester har-vester companies in thoso days. He said there had been less variation in prices in 1902 and the practice of making repairs and allowing the trading trad-ing in of old machines had been discontinued. |