INVENTION OK KEAl'ING MACHINES. 45 



Union Township, Champaign County, O., / 



Au;j[., 1851. \ 



I have used Husscy's Reaper for four years. 1 prefer it to every 

 other machine. I do not have to drive fast, and the raking is the 

 easiest work in the field. JOHN KARSOM. 



Salem Township, Champaign County, O., I 



Aug., 1S51. \ 

 I bought a Husscy Reaper this season, and it has given the best 

 satisfaction. I cut wheat that was down as badly as any I e\'cr saw. 

 It operated well by driving in a slow walk. My hands would rather 

 rake than bind. JOHN LEE. 



Union Township, Champaign County, C, ) 



July, 1 85 1. \ 

 I have used for five years Hussey's Reaper. It is a labor and grain 

 saving machine. It is a much better machine than McCormick's, in 

 several particulars; it is more substantial, not so liable to injury, and 

 will cut faster and cleaner. I cut this season, with three horses, sixteen 

 acres of heavy wheat, in five hours and thirty minutes. 



REZIN C. WILSON. 



Bergen, Sept. i, 185 1. — This is to certify that I have for three 

 seasons used one of Hussey's Reaping Machines, which I purchased 

 at the Gennesee Seed Store, and that it gives perfect satisfaction. I 

 have cut my wheat when it was very badly lodged, much faster, better 

 and cheaper than it could have been done in any other way. I had 

 one of McCormick's, but left it in the road, a useless article, as I con- 

 sider it; having tried for three years to use it without success. 



I consider Hussey's machine just the thing for our farmers, and I 

 could not now, after having proved its merits, be induced to be with- 

 out one. NOAH WILSON. 



With a few general remarks as to the reputation of Reaping 

 Machines in England, and on the authority of the annexed English 

 publications, we take leave of the subject. 



At the trial for which the "Great Council Medal" was awarded, but 

 which no practical farmer in this country would consider as anv trial 

 at all, being merely the attempt to cut a small space in green and wet 

 grain, and during the temporary absence of Hussey, his machine was 

 operated by ignorant laborers of the "Chrystal Palace," and who had 

 never before seen a reaping machine. 



This did not satisfy the English farmers; comjilaints were soon 

 heard of injustice, partiality, and unfairness. It compelled C. H. Mc- 

 Cormick or his agents to offer a challenge, which was promptly 

 accepted by Hussey; and before the Cleveland Agricultural Society a 

 tolerably fair trial was had of the rival machines, though neither the 

 grain or ground was then in a suitable state. For the decision of 



