so Samuel Muldrow and
James Muldrow. Still I will inquire if any persons can be found
who were present.

[4] Both of these machines were sold to Wm. Muldrow, Agent, of
Marion College, Marion County, Mo.

"I know the results, and recollect distinctly the reception the
machines met with, and the prices, to wit, $150 each. Muldrow
bought another for $500--which was a whirling wheel. You recollect
it; it never run any. Yours, I know it was said then, would cut
off brush large enough for a hoop-hole. Court is now in session,
but as soon as I can ascertain the witnesses (at the exhibition) I
will write you further. But my recollection is distinct, from the
relations existing between us, my interest in machinery generally,
and my position as editor of the only paper of this section of
country.

"As ever, your friend,

"EDWIN G. PRATT."

[Sidenote: Mode of Transportation]

In 1836 O. Hussey visited Maryland at the written solicitation of the
Board of Trustees of _The Maryland Agricultural Society_, for the Eastern
Shore. The fame of his reaping exploits in the State of New York, and the
far West, had reached the East; though with something like a "snail's
pace." We had not then the Magnetic Telegraph, which with lightning speed
enables the East to _talk_ with the West; nor even the "iron horse," by
whose speed and power, the reaper that cut a large crop of wheat in
Maryland, could within the same week cut another equally large in the
valley of the Mississippi; but it then required some two to three _years_
to prepare the public mind for the reception of the machine here; and
owing to the limited means of the inventor, the transportation from place
to place was often done by a single horse; accompanied by the inventor
foot-sore and weary from walking hundreds of miles!

[Sidenote: An Inventor's Difficulties]

The annexed certificate was given, published, and widely circulated
after a full trial of the machine, in cutting more than two hundred
acres, and by large farmers and practical men, known throughout the
State. Comment is unnecessary on such a paper; but we feel bound to
state that it was mainly owing to the exertions of the liberal public
spirited gentlemen, the last, though not the least of the signers, Gen.
Tench Tilghman, that the Reaper was then introduced into this State. He
was the early and steadfast friend of the Patentee, and to the caus