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tiihutcd to their gratification and interest in briiifjing h's invention 

 there for trial; the result of that trial had exceeded everything they 

 could have previously imagined or hoped; and therefore he begged 

 they would excuse him for proposing this health so early, as Mr. Hus- 

 scy and his agent's representative Mr Pierce, had to leave by the first 

 train from Darlington, which they had then but sufficient time to 

 reach. He proposed the healths of Mr. Hussey and of the enterpris- 

 ing firm. Messrs. Dray & Co., who had undertaken to bring that ma- 

 chine into the British market. The toast was drank with honors. Mr. 

 Ilussey briefly returned thanks. 



After some further proceedings, the Vice-Chairman jjroposed the 

 health of the President. Lord Marry Vane responded. 



The healths of the Vice-Presidents were proposed. Mr. Mitchell 

 briefly responded. Mr. Wharton in acknowledging the toast, took the 

 opportunity of again bringing before the meeting the merits of the inven- 

 tion which had been the object of that day's attraction. It had been 

 most unfortunate that when the trial took place for the prize of the 

 great exhibition. Mr. Hussey had not arrived in this country — nobody 

 knew how it was managed, whilst M'Cormick's was properly attended 

 to. Mr. Hussey' ■ machine did no work, and Mr. M'Cormick took the 

 medal. No sooner did Mr. Hussey arrive than he prayed for a further 

 trial, but the Jury could not grant it. All difficulty was removed by 

 Mr. M'Cormick throwing down the gauntlet. The trial came off in 

 Cleveland — the result was clear and satisfactory in favor of Mr. Hus- 

 sey's machine as decidedly superior. Mr. Thompson, of Moat Hall, 

 one of the Great Exhibition Jury, was also one of the Judges in Cleve- 

 land, and was so satisfied on the subject that he left, determined to 

 urge for a medal for Mr. Hussey. It must be a source of pleasure to 

 all, to find that justice was thus about to be done to a worthy, modest 

 and unassuming man. 



F7'o»i the Darlington and Stockton Tinus, October iit/i, 185 1. 

 The Re..\ping M.\chines at Barnardcastle. 

 To the Editor of the Darlington and Stockton Times. 



Sir: — I beg to trouble you with a few particulars of Mr. Hussey's 

 American Reaping Machine, which I yesterday saw working in a field 

 near Barnardcastle. I am not a farmer, and oi' course cannot be thor- 

 oughly ^?//'y^///' at describing an agricultural implement, nor am I suf- 

 ficiently versed in mechanics to explain to you the construction of the 

 machine in all its details, but of the result I can speak, and that with 

 confidence. 



Drawn by two horses, a man seated on the near side horse as driv- 

 er, this wonderful implement was drawn with perfect ease, at more 

 than the rate of three miles an hour, round and round a field, partly in 

 wheat and partly in barley, cutting a breadth of corn in its progress 

 with a regularity and evenness that was surprising. No straggling 

 stalks of corn were left — none of the slovenly irregular wt)rk too often 

 seen where manual labor is emplo\-ed, was to be discovered; on the 



