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of grain by the use of an extra man. Notice the position of the man 

 with the rake. He is seated well fonvard so that he can with his rake 

 do the work of the reel. The platform upon which the grain falls is 

 pivoted and controlled by the foot of the raker. When a bundle has 

 been reeled on to the platform by the man with his rake the rear end 

 of the platform is dropped into the stubble and the bundle slips off. 

 Xow, what about Hussey? The cut (Fig. 2) shows the raker on the 

 rear end of the machine pushing the bundle from the machine to the 

 ground. His position is such that he could not both act as a reeler 

 and a raker. The platform is not hinged, as in the present form of 

 reaping attachments, and as he could only push the bundle from the 

 machine, the horses are in a trot in order to strike the stalks of grain 

 with sufficient momentum so that the heads will fall to the rear, thus 

 in an impractical way trying to reap without a reel. 

 Summarizing on the question of the reel: 



(a) McCormick's reaper from the beginning had a serviceable,- ad- 

 justable reel of practically the same diameter, and for the same purpose, 

 as the reels in use to-day. 



(b) Hussey's machine had no reel, and never had. 



(c) Because a few reaping attachments for mowers are now sold 

 to the small peasant farmers of Europe is a weak excuse for saying 

 that Hussey's reaper exists to-day. 



(d) The reaping attachment of to-day has a tilting platform, a 

 divider, and the raker is positioned to do the work of reeling. Hus- 

 sey's had no tilting platform, no divider, and the raker could not both 

 reel and push the bundle from the rigid platform. 



It is submitted that the reel is an essential part of a practical reap- 

 ing machine. Hussey did not have it, and therefore his machine was 

 a failure. 



(4) The Divider. In McCormick's patent of June 21, 1854, is the 

 following description of the first divider ever used on a reaper and also 

 the first to be used in combination with a reel: 



" On the opposite side of the machine is another reel post sup- 

 ported by a brace on each side . . on the outside of which piece 

 . . may be secured a bow in order to more effectually divide the 

 grain. . . . This reel, by the motion given by the strap, as the 

 horses advance, bears the stalks as they are projected inward 'by each 



