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cleverly delivered from the teeth of the reajjer, and handed over to the 

 binders by the rake. 



I To WillitDU Druy and Compa}iy.~\ 



Stockton-on-Tees, September 27th, 1851. 

 Sir, — Having been in communication with you relative to the trial 

 of your Reaper against M'Cormick's, and feeling deeply interested in 

 the introduction of the new Implement into this district, particularly 

 one of so much importance as a Reaping Machine, I think it is not 

 probably out of place in me if 1 give you the result of my observations 

 during the two trials which have taken place. From the fact that 

 M'Cormick's Machine obtained the prize at the Great Exliibition 

 (though I do not pin my faitli upon awards made by Agricultural and 

 other societies,) the letter of Mr. Pusey's, in the Royal Agricultural 

 Society s Journal, the various newspaper reports, &c.. &c.; it was natural 

 for me to be predisposed in favor of M'Cormick's Machine; indeed 

 Mr. M. had a prestage in his favor, which of course operated against 

 the " Little Hussey." Previous to starting, at Marton, on Thursday, 

 the gentlemen representing M'Cormick's machine expressed them- 

 selves desirous of testing the machines early in the morning when the 

 dew was on, believing that their machine would cut the grain under 

 such circumstances, and that yours would not. Well, on Thursday we 

 had a deluge rain, the surface of the land was very soft, and the corn 

 very wet. Everybody there was astonished to see your machine 

 brought up the field at a trot, cutting its way to the admiration of all 

 present; it not only cut to the leaning corn, but it cut cross over the 

 corn leaning to the left of the postillion, (I presume I must call him.) 

 McCormick's machine then attcniptcd to start (he made two or three 

 attempts) but the attendant confessed it was impossible to do so. 

 That there might be no mistake about it, your representatives pro- 

 posed that their machines should go up again; the jury said " No! we 

 are satisfied that \'our machine can cut it under the present circum- 

 stances," and so ended Thursday's trial. 



Frorn the Gate si lead Observer, October 4. 



We left the members and friends of this society, on Friday, the 

 26th ult., on the Show-ground at Middlesbrough, immersed in rain. 

 The scene now shifts to the Townhall — where, in a handsome and 

 spacious apartment, we find them assembled in the evening, to dinner, 

 to the number of 150, with the Earl of Zetland in the Chair, and in 

 the vice-chair Mr. John Vaughan, of the firm of Bolckow & V^aughan, 

 iron-masters and manufacturers. His lordship was supported h\' the 

 Rev. W. F Wharton, of Birimngham, and Messrs. J. T. Wharton, 

 Henry Pease, G. D. Trotter, Isaac Wilson, George Coates, J. W. Pease, 

 George Reade, John Pierson, &c.; and the vice-chair b\- Messrs. C. 

 Dryden, W. Fallows, R. Chilton, &c. In the body of the hall were 

 the leading inhabitants of the town and neighborhood; also, Mr. 

 Burgess and Mr. Samuelson (who had come to the meeting with Mr. 



