FARMERS' REGISTER— ACRE TABLE— REAPING MACHINE. 



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From the Genesee Fanner. 

 hussey's machine for harvesting ^'IIEAT. 



The machine has been very fully tried, and I 

 am gratified to be able to say, that it has as fully 

 succeeded. Hundreds of farmers, from the dif- 

 ferent towns of tliis and the adjoining counties, 

 have witnessed its operations, and all have not 

 only expressed their confidence in its success, but 

 their gratification in the perfection of its work. 



As every inquirer asks the same series of ques- 

 tions, I presume your readers will have a like 

 course of thought, and wish for satisfaction in the 

 same particulars. To give them this, I will write 

 then) in their order, and ffive the answers. 



Does the machine make clean work? 



It saves all the grain; to use the language of a 

 gratified looker on, an old and experienced tiirmer, 

 "it cheats the hogs."* 



Does the machuie expedite the work? 



What the machine is capable of accomplishing, 

 we who have used it can hardly say, as we had 

 no field, in fit order, large enough for a fair trial 

 through a whole day; and can only say what it 

 has done. Five acres of heavy wheat on the 



*The hogs are the gleaners in this section of coun- 

 try. 



