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harvest, and also one, and probably two. for my father's plantation. I 

 consider this machine invaluable to the grower of wheat, and would 

 recommend every farmer who grows even fifty acres of wheat, to pur- 

 chase one. He may rest assured that he will be pleased with his pur- 

 chase. I shall probably be in Richmond shortly. 



Yours, very respectfully, 



T. Pollock Burguyn. 

 Occonichce IVigwajn, near Halifax, N. C. Jioie 20, 184.6. 



For 1849 s^ci 1850 we will return and see how the Invention pro- 

 gresses on the broad Prairies and fertile lands of the West, where it 

 first operated — in 1833 and 1834; — and where too, although the most 

 luxuriant crops ^x& grovim with comparatively but little labor, it would 

 in many cases be next to impossible to save tJicm, without the aid of 

 this invaluable invention. 



These certificates embrace the mowing of large crops of grass as 

 well as grain, and in addition, the cutting of more than three hundred 

 acres of //dv;// in the harvest of 1849 and 1850, by "the same single 

 machine." 



Hussey's complete success in cutting grass and hemp, was no new 

 thing ten years ago; but we suppose, like the grain cutting, in the 

 view of Philip Pusey, Esq., M. P., " lis perfection depended on its being 

 new only in England," full eighteen years after it was effected in 

 America, 



Blackberry, Kane county. 111., Aug. 28, '49. 

 This may certify that I have had one of Mr. Hussey's Mowing and 

 Reaping Machines on my farm this year cutting Wheat, Oats, and 

 Grass for a short time. I think nothing can beat it cutting Timothy 

 Grass, and I intend to purchase one for that purpose. While the 

 machine was cutting Prairie Grass in my field, I cut off a dry poplar 

 stake, one inch in diameter, which had been sticking in the ground 

 after it had been laid off for a ditch. I am of the opinion that it will 

 cut wheat well, where it is so much lodged, or so foul with stiff weeds 

 or corn stalks, that it cannot be cut with any other machine I have 

 seen in this country. Some of my neighbors say that they intend to 

 have Mr. Hussey's Reaper in preference to any other; and from what. 

 I can learn, this opinion is pretty general in my neighborhood, 

 amongst those who have seen this machine work, and are acquainted 

 with other machines. My brother farmers have had great trouble with 

 McCormick's machine, by the breaking of sickles, and the great diffi- 

 culty or rather the impossibility of getting them repaired, or getting 

 new ones made when broken, w^hereas the blades of Mr. Hussey's 

 machine can be made by any common blacksmith. I have no doubt 

 but Mr. Hussey's machine will come into general use. 



D. W. Annis. 



