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In a letter written by Mr. McCormick to the editor of the Me- 

 chanics' Magazine, in May of 1834, is the following: 



" The revolving reel, as I conceive, constitutes a very important,, 

 in fact, indispensable part of my machine." 



Attention is called to the fact that this reel is a reel that will do the 

 work. In all the reapers built by McCormick it could be adjusted 

 up and down and forward and back, the two movements of to-day. It 

 has been said that Bell had a reel, but the descriptions of it show that 

 the arms were only thirteen inches in length. Anyone experienced 

 in harvesting grain knows that such a reel would have no effect in 

 raising lodged and tangled grain, but, on the contrary, would roll it 

 ahead of the knife and be worse than useless. Hussey had no reel, 

 and never had. 



The Protest says : 



" In its perfected form (referring to Hussey's reaper) it may be 

 considered as existing in the manual-delivery reapers largely used in 

 Europe and extensively manufactured by the McCormick Harvesting 

 Machine Company, the Deering Harvester Company and others, as 

 shown by their annual circulars." 



All Europe did not sell 1,000 of these manual-delivery reapers in 

 1896- The cut herewith (Fig. 4) will show the so-called "manual- 



delivery reaper " that is now being made and sold. It is an attachment 

 for a mower, a makeshift for using the mower on the small European 

 farms (which average about five acres each), to reap a small patch 



