Both McCormick and Hussey had machines in the harvest of 1833, 

 and both applied lor patents before the harvest of 1834. There is an 

 account of Hnssey's machine published in the fall of 1833, an( ^ one 



MECHANICS' MAGAZINE, 



REGISTER OF INVENTIONS ANT) IMPROVEMENTS. 



To the Eiluor .>f the >! : 

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 jtloscriptiwt . 

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. of a friciKi t JeH iJwrat of 



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: -ir rf w M.J, with bent t<?*th ; i', reel poHy ; W, 

 rce! ; X, \ h-rf-1 <>l" 16 taehe* <Jianler ; Y, re*l post. 



Machine, agrof a. The |>lat{bnn A is of plank, made fast to 



a frrtm<' of wood, for receiving tlo grain whea 



it until enough ha 



of McCormick ? s in the Lexington Union and in the Mechanics' Maga- 

 zine, also in the fall of 1833. Hussey sent the editor of the Mechanics' 

 Magazine a picture of his machine in 1834, and so did McCormick. 



