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" Cross-Question 175. How was the horse attached to that ma- 

 chine? 



"Answer. I do not recollect whether the first machine was 

 worked by one or two horses; but whether or not, I well remember 

 that the horse or horses were always attached to the machine substan- 

 tially, as now done, using a pair of shafts or pole to suit one or two 

 horses, the horse, or horses, walking outside and alongside of the grain 

 to be cut, with the cutting apparatus on the left, as has been the case 

 ever since.' 7 



The Protest makes long extracts from the communication which 

 Mr. McCormick filed in January of 1848, when he sought to have his 

 patent of 1834 extended. It must therefore be presumed that its writer 

 knew and suppressed the following quotation from the same communi- 

 cation : 



'* The machine at the time of this experiment (1831) contained 

 all the essential parts that were embraced in the patent of June 21, 

 1834. It had a platform; the straight sickle with the vibrating action 

 by a crank; the fingers, or stationary supports to the cutting at the 

 edge of the blade, and projecting forward into the grain; the reel, and 

 the general arrangements by which the machine was balanced upon 

 two wheels, perhaps nine-tenths of the whole weight being thrown 

 upon the one behind the draft, thereby attaching the horses in front 

 and at one side." 



Summarizing on the methods of drafts : 



(a) The patents show that both machines were drawn by a team 

 walking outside the standing grain. 



(b) McCormick's patent shows an alternative device so that the 

 machine could be pushed. 



(c) The plan of Hussey's machine is such that it could not be 

 pushed. 



(d) Accounts of McCormick's machine, published at Lexington, 

 Va., before any knowledge of Hussey's had penetrated that remote 

 neighborhood, show that the machine was drawn when at work in the 

 harvest of 1833. 



(e) Sworn testimony of half a century ago and sworn statements 

 in 1847, f the inventor himself, show that the machine was always 

 drawn from the side. 



(f) The picture of McCormick's machine, herewith published, a 

 reproduction of one published in 1834,. shows the pull method of draft. 



