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<LEGEND>
This Schedule contains summary financial information extracted from the Top Air
Manufacturing, Inc. Quarterly Report on Form 10-QSB for the period ended
February 29, 1996 and is qualified in its entirety by reference to such report.
</LEGEND>
       
                             
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