e borne the test in a
manner which has excited our highest admiration of their merits.
We were particularly pleased with their work in lodged grain; they
cut and gather every straw with the utmost ease, and the only
fault at all that we have had to find with them was that they did
not cut wet grain with facility; this single defect, however, we
are pleased to perceive you have completely remedied with the late
improvement (with open guards to the knives, etc.) which the most
of us saw at work in Mr. Wm. Butler's field cut wet grain and
green oats as well as could possibly be desired--it will also cut
timothy and clover--so that now we have no hesitation in
recommending your reaper, as we hereby most cordially do, to our
brother farmers, as the most complete and efficient in
agricultural operations, and as one which, whilst from its simple
and substantial construction, is not liable to be broken or to get
out of order, will at the same time save its owner the first year
more than its original cost.

"WM. BUTLER,
J. H. TAYLOR,
W. SHORTT,
JOSEPH M'MURRAN,
DANIEL G. HENKLE,
DAVID L. HENSELL,
W. G. BUTLER,
JAS. S. MARKELL,
V. M. BUTLER,
ANDREW M'INTIRE,
ADAM SMELL,
GEORGE TABB,
JOHN MARSHALL."

"Washington County,
"Aug. 7th, 1845.

"I hereby certify that I have used Mr. Obed Hussey's wheat cutter
through the late harvest, and that it answered my fullest
expectations, in every respect, except that it will not cut when
the wheat is _damp from rain or the dews of the morning_. I
cut 140 acres of wheat with it in nine days; and on one occasion,
cut off thirty acres in eighteen hours, from daylight in the
morning until 11 o'clock the next day, and with the same four
horses, never having changed them during that time.

"JOHN R. DALL."

[Illustration: Hussey's Rear-Delivery Reaper.
(From "Who Invented the Reaper?" by R. B. Swift.)]

"Oaklands (near Geneva), N. Y.
"26th August, 1845.

"_Mr. Obed Hussey, Baltimore:_

"Dear Sir:--Having housed all the grain crops of this farm, it is
due to you that I should now frankly admit the removal of all my
doubts in regard to the effectiveness and excellence of your
'Reaping Machine.' The doubts expressed in my early correspondence
with you arose from the many abortive attempts in th