CYRUS HALL McCORMICK 



was offering it for sale to cut grain as well as 

 grass. In this instance McCormick won easily. 

 The judges said that while the Hussey machine 

 was stronger and simpler, having no reel nor 

 divider, the McCormick Reaper was lighter, 

 cheaper, scattered less grain, and was better at 

 cutting grain that was wet and in its method of 

 delivering the grain. 



"Meet Hussey whenever you can and put him 

 down," Cyrus McCormick wrote to his brothers. 

 In one letter, written the following year, he is 

 so enthusiastically aggressive in the pursuit of 

 Hussey that he proposes to his brothers a grand 

 final contest. Hussey is to be dared to sign an 

 agreement that in case of defeat, he will pay 

 McCormick $10,000 and become the Mary- 

 land agent for the McCormick Reaper. Mc- 

 Cormick, on his part, is to agree that if he is 

 beaten he will pay Hussey $10,000 and become 

 the Virginia agent for the Hussey machine. 

 Nothing came of this confident proposal, either 

 because it was not put into effect by McCormick, 

 or because Hussey refused to accept it. 



But the field test flourished for more than 



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