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Springfield, (111.) Dec. 25, 1850. 

 Mr Obcd Hussey, Baltimore, Md: 



Dear Sir — I have used one of your Mowing and Reaping Machines, 

 and consider it the best machine I ever saw, and never intend to do 

 without one, if it is possible to get one, cv^en if I have to go to Balti- 

 more and remain at the shop till one can be made. I do candidly 

 believe if I had had one ten years ago, I would now feel like a much 

 younger man; and cheerfully recommend them to all who have grass 

 or grain to cut. as a machine that will do their work in perfect order, 

 neatness, and with ease to all employed. 



John Simms, 

 4 miles west of Springfield, 111. 



Utica, Lasal Co. 111. Dec. 14, 1850. 

 Obed Hussey,Esq — Dear Sir:— I received your Reaping and Mow- 

 ing Machine in time for harvest, and used it for harvesting and for 

 mowing. I am fully satisfied that your machines are the best yet 

 offered to the farmers of thi§ State. I have mowed about four hun- 

 dred acres, a great portion of which was wild prairie, very frequently 

 running against stones and ant heaps with sufficient force to throw 

 both driver and raker off the machine, without injury to the machine. 

 Why your machine is preferable to any other, is — after you have cut 

 vour different kinds of grain, fully as well as can be done with any 

 other machine, with not over fifteen minutes' work, you can take the 

 same machine into your meadow or on to the prairie, and cut your 

 grass at the rate of ten acres per day, cutting closer and cleaner than 

 can be done with a scythe. — With proper care, your machines will last 

 fifteen or twenty years, with trifling repairs. 



Respectfully yours, 



James Clark. 



Isla?id Grove, Sa?iga?no?i Co. III. Dec. 25, 1850. 

 Mr. Obed Hussey, Baltimore, Md.— Dear Sir — Last summer I 

 received two of Hussey's Mowing and Reaping Machines; one from 

 your own shop in Baltimore, and the other manufactured in this State, 

 Unfortunately for me, I retained the one manufactured in this State, 

 and with some difficulty succeeded in cutting about two hundred acres 

 of wheat and grass. The one from your shop I let Mr. John Simms 

 have, who cut his w^heat, oats and hay, (about seventy-five acres), with 

 perfect satisfaction and ease, most of it with two horses, and without 

 being obliged to grind the knives. After Mr. Simms finished his har- 

 vest he let Mr. James D. Smith, of Island Grove, have it, who cut 

 about three hundred acres of grass with it, the machine giving perfect 

 satisfaction. Very respectfully yours, 



Edward J. Eno. 



Carrolton, Green Co., III., Dec. 27, 1850. 

 I procured one of Mr. Hussey's Reaping and Mowing Machines 

 from Baltimore last spring; I cut eighty acres of wheat, and ten acres 



