HUSSEY'S REAPING MACHINE. 



TO THE FARMERS OF WESTERN N. Y. AND CANADA. 



WE would respectfully call the attention of Farmers to the 

 fact, that we have the exclusive agency and exclusive sale 

 of the ahove named Reaper, in all that part of the State of New 

 York west of a line running north and south through Canan- 

 daigua ; and also in Canada. We sell the Reapers at the manu- 

 facturers prices, adding cost of transportation. They can be 

 examined at our store. 



All who design purchasing, are earnestly requested to hand in. 

 or mail their orders at once. This will enable us to have on hand 

 in season, all that may be required for the above named territory, 

 and prevent any being disappointed, as might be the case if orders 

 were delayed till the harvest had begun. 



That it is the best Reaper made, and that it would be greatly 



to the advantage of Farmers to have them, there is no. doubt — 



Annexed are a few of the many certificates which migh: be given 



RAPALJE & BR1GGS, 



Genesee Seed Store & Ag. Warehouse, 



Rochester, July 1, 1849. Rochester, N. Y. 



CERTIFICATES. 



Auburn. February 17, 1847. 

 Mr. Thomas R. Hussey : — I have used one of your Grain Reap- 

 ers for three years, which cuts five feet I can cut fifteen acres 

 in one day. and in doing so. I gather the grain as clean as it can 

 be done with a sickle. I much prefer it to any other mode of 

 cutting grain. J. M. SHERWOOD. 



Mr. Thomas R. nussEY : — Sir : I have used your Reaping Ma- 

 chine for six years, and consider it one of the most profitalle 

 Machines that can be used on a farm, and could not be induced 

 to do withou t one. I can cut from fifteen to twenty acres in one 

 day, and can get lodged grain better than in any other way. I 

 can recommend this Machine to all farmers, as a cheap and expe- 

 ditious way of getting grain. Scipio, March 6, 1847. 



ISAAC AKIN. 



John Delafield. Esq., of Oakland Farm, near Seneca Lake, has 

 this season cut 104 acres of wheat in eight days, with Hussey's 

 Reaping Machine, at cost of, 



1 man and team, 1.50 per day. 



Boy to drive, 50 do. 



$2,00 do. 



8 days, $16,00 



Interest on cost of Machine ($100) one year, 7,00 



Total, $23 00 



The same work would have taken six cradlers eight days : this, 

 at $1.50 a day, board included, would amount to $72. showing a 

 saving by the Machine of $49 ; which Mr. D. justly remarks, is 

 nothing, compared to the anxiety which every large farmer sufferp 

 from the paucity of good cradlers, their selfish caprice and their 

 extortionate prices during the wheat harvest. Many a farmer, 

 with an excited, wo-begone face, have I s* en this season, riding 

 about in search of cradlers ; 'tis true, he could find plenty of wild 

 Irish and others, who, like Highland Willie, could ,; neither say 

 nor do ;" but experienced cradlers were few indeed ; and when 

 found, only think, the price of two bushels of wheat for a single 

 day's work. 



This Machine is drawn by a pair of horses on low wheels ; it 

 cuts a SWarth five feet wide with twenty knives, working horizon- 

 tally, which are to be sharpened once a day with i whetstone. — 

 A man sitting on the side of the platform, pushes off the cut grain 

 with a rake, to the binders. The work was done expeditiously 

 and neatly— not a waste head was to be seen. A field of oats had 

 been cut with the same result. 



My faith in the Machine was secured the moment 1 heard Mr. 

 D. dilate upon the case of both body and mind with which hi had 

 compassed his present harvest ; when I saw the execution it had 

 made, 1 had no longer a doubt of its economy and usefulness. It 

 is one of the few patented articles of the present day which is no 

 humbug— [Genesee farmer. 



The Committee on Agricultural Implements regret that farmers 

 and mechaniccs have been so remiss in not bringing out valuable 

 implements, known to have been put in successful operation, with- 



in a few years, in different parts of this country and this State— 

 among which are, 



1st. Hussey's Reaping Machine, upward of thirty of which are 

 owned in this county. Twenty of these we. e introduced the last 

 harvest. The work done by them has been eminently satisfactory 

 the P' st season. Mr. Bryan Jackson and Col J W. Andrews re- 

 port that they cut. with one of the largest size. 54 acres of wheat 

 in two days. Mr. William Bowman reports that he cut 14 acres 

 in half a day. These are extra days' work and can only bi o 

 complished with good horses, and at good speed. From 15 to 20 

 acres may be deemed a fair days' work. — [Elxtract of a Report 

 from the Newcastle Co., Delaware. Agricultural Committee. 



Mr Hussey— Sir : It is with pleasure that I send you my certif- 

 icate to recommend your valuable Wheat Reaper to 'he public— 

 I have now used it four seasons, and am satisfied that where the 

 ground is free from large stones and stumps, it is more expediti- 

 ous, cheaper, and will save from one-half to a bushel of wheat ) er 

 acre more than the common way ot harvesting; and it is not 

 more than three quarters as much work to thrash the same as 

 when cut by cradles ; and can cut from 15 to 20 acres per day. 



Scipie, March 12, 1847. BENJAMIN OLNEY. 



Thomas R. Hussey, Esq .:— I have used one of your Reaping 

 Machines this season, with great satisfaction, and consider it one 

 of the most valuable labor-s iving Machines in use. I cut my 

 whole wheat harvest (one hundred and fourteen acres) with it 

 this s*ason. It gathers the grain clean, and saves from one and 

 a half to two bushels an acre over the cradle. I cut twnty-five 

 acres of wheat with it in eleven hours and a hall. I consider it 

 the Machine— and there is no other that can be compared with it. 

 The principle of it is right, and I can cheerfully recommend it to 

 all farmers, as a labor and money saving Machine. 



Seneca Falls, Aug. 15, 1848. * G. V. SACKET. 



[From the Genesee Farmer ] 



Mr. Editor : — In the midst of the wheat harvest, in the month 

 of July. I paid a visit to Prairie Ronde, in this county, and have 

 had an itching ever since to send you a description of the way 

 they do up the harvesting on a large scale — pnmising that the 

 prairie contains about 24,000 acres of plow land literally as level 

 as the house floor, of the richest quality. 



I saw Hussey's Reapers cutting thirty acres per day. with four 

 horses, empl ying nine binders. The farmers thrash much of 

 their wheat in the field from the shock, with a machine which 

 gears on one of the wagon wheels. 1 here were six thousand acres 

 of wheat on the prairie, and five-sixths of it was cut by Hussey's 

 and Moor's Reapers, and it will average 20 bushels per acre. 



Yours, respectfully, KALAMAZOO. 



Frairie Ronde, Kalamazoo, August 19, 1S45. • 



To the Editor of the American Farmer: — Dear Sir: Some 

 months ago I received a letter from you, making enquiries of me 

 relative to Hussey's Reaping Machine. When your letter reached 

 me I was on the eve of leaving home for the summer, and since 

 my return home, my engagements have been of such a character 

 as to cause me until the present to neglect replying to it. 



I have used one of Hussey's Machines one stason, and though 

 under circumstances not very favorable for the Machine, I take 

 pleasure in stating that its operation was satisfactory. During 

 my harvest, which was abrut three weeks' duration, this Machine 

 was kept constantly at work, with the exception of a day and a 

 half; yet I did not ascertain how many acres it would r.ap. Mr. 

 Collins, of Lake Scuppernong. also used one last season, and from 

 him I learned that he had cut upwards of twenty acres a day. 



There is certainly much less wheat left In the field by one of 

 these Machines than is by the ordinary method of reaping by the 

 scythe or reap hook ; it cuts close, lays the straw smoothly, tlmj 

 rendering the tying of sheaves much easier. 



Edenton, N. C, Jan. 28, 1848. TH. D. WARREN. 



[From the Richmond Planter ] a. 



The following communication is strongly in favor of Hussey's 

 Reaping Machine : 



I have had in operation on my plantation, this year. bOth Hus- 

 sey's and McCormick"s Reapers. Now. as you have asked me to 

 fur lish the '• Planter" with the result of my own experience, and 

 opinion as to the comparative merits of the two Machines, it is 

 now at your service. I have had them both in open 

 weather would permit) for the last fortnight, and hive ci; 

 the two upwards of two hundred acres of wheat. Both .Machines 

 have been, I think, very fairly tested, in all qualities of grain, 

 from wheat five feet and more in height, both standing up and 

 lodgedand tangled, and averaging, as is BU] im thirty anil 



forty bushels, down to light, thin wheat, not averaging more than 

 four bushels, (being some galled hills.) and I am candidly and de- 

 cidedly of opinion that Hussey's Machine is superior. So well 

 pleased am 1 with its performance, that I have ordered another 

 Machine of Hussey for my next harvest, and probably two, for my 

 father's plantation. I consider this Machine invaluable to the 

 grower of wheat, and would recommend every farmer who grows 

 even fifty acres of wheat, to purchase one. lie may rest assured 

 that he will bo pleased with his purchase. I shall probably be in 

 Richmond shortly. J. POLLOK BURGUt'N 



Occonichee Wigwam, near Halifax, N. C, June 20, 1846. 



(if?- For further information relative to above named Reaper, 

 see July number of the Genesee Farmer for 184S. 



