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Jefferson County, Va., Au<^^ 9th, 1845. 

 To Mr. Obcd Hiissey — Dear Sir: We the undersigned having used your 

 Reaping machine during the recent harvest in cutting our respective 

 croj).s, take great jileasure in tendering to you this voluntary testimonial 

 of the very high estimation in which we hold your invention. We ha\e 

 now tried your machines fully and fairly, and we are unanimous in the 

 conclusion that in every case they have borne the test in a manner 

 which has excited our highest admiration of their merits. We were 

 particularly pleased with their work in lodged grain; they cut and 

 gather every straw with the utmost ease, and the only fault at all that 

 we have had to find with them was that they did not cut wet grain with 

 facility; this single defect however, we are pleased to perceive y^ou 

 have completely remedied with the late improvement ( with open 

 guards to the knives, &c.) which the most of us saw at work in Mr. 

 Wm. Butler's field cut wet grain and green oats as well as could pos- 

 sibly be desired — it will also cut timothy and clover — so that now we 

 have no hesitation in recommending your Reaper, as we hereby most 

 cordially do, to our brother farmers, as the most complete and efficient 

 in agricultural operations, and as one which, whilst from its simple 

 and substantial construction, is not liable to be broken or to get out of 

 order, will at the same time save its owner the first year more than its 

 original cost. 



Wm. Butler, W. G. Butler, 



J. H. T.WLOR, Jas. S. Makkell, 



W. Shortt, V. M. Butler, 



Joseph M'Murran, Andrew M'Intire, 



Daniel G. Henkle, Adam Smell, 



David L. Hensell, George Tabb, 



John Marshall. 



Washington County, Aug. 7th, 1845. 

 I hereby certify, that I have used Mr. Obed Hussey's Wheat Cutter 

 through the late harvest, and that it answered my fullest expectations, 

 in every respect, except that it will not cut when the wheat is divnp 

 from rain or the dcivs of the )norning. I cut 140 acres of wheat with it in 

 nine days; and on one occasion, cut off 30 acres in 18 hours, from day- 

 light in the morning until ii o'clock the next day, and with the same 

 4 horses, never having changed them during that time. 



John R. Dall. 



Oaklands, (near Geneva,) N. Y, ) 

 26th August, 1845. ) 

 Mr. Obed Hitssey, Baltimore — 



Dear Sir: I laving housed all the grain crops of this farm, it is due 

 to you that I should now frankh- admit the remo\al of all my doubts in 

 regard to the effectiveness and excellence of your "Rea[)ing Machine." 

 The doubts expressed in my early correspondence with you arose 

 from the many abortive attempts in this country and in England to 

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