"_Mr. Obed Hussey, Baltimore, Md.:_ "Dear Sir:--Last summer I received two of Hussey's Mowing and Reaping Machines; one from your own shop in Baltimore, and the other manufactured in this State. Unfortunately for me, I retained the one manufactured in this State, and with some difficulty succeeded in cutting about two hundred acres of wheat and grass. The one from your shop I let Mr. John Simms have, who cut his wheat, oats and hay (about seventy-five acres) with perfect satisfaction and ease, most of it with two horses, and without being obliged to grind the knives. After Mr. Simms finished his harvest he let Mr. James D. Smith, of Island Grove, have it, who cut about three hundred acres of grass with it, the machine giving perfect satisfaction. "Very respectfully yours, "EDWARD J. ENO." "Carrolton, Green Co., Ill., "Dec. 27, 1850. "I procured one of Mr. Hussey's Reaping and Mowing Machines from Baltimore last spring; I cut eighty acres of wheat, and ten acres of oats, and fifty acres of timothy with it, to my entire satisfaction--after which I cut sixty acres of cloverseed with it in less than five days. I could not have saved the cloverseed without the machine, so I consider I saved the whole cost of the machine in the saving of the cloverseed alone. "SAMUEL THOMAS." "Springfield, Ill., "Dec. 25, 1850. "_Mr. Obed Hussey, Baltimore, Md.:_ "Dear Sir:--During the harvest of August, 1849, with one of your machines I cut sixty acres of Hemp, using a set of 4-1/2 feet knives and guards, and two teams of four horses each, changing every two rounds, which cut on an average eight acres per day. This last harvest, the same single machine, with 6 foot guides and knives,[7] operated by the same force, cut successfully 250 acres of hemp, or from 10 to 12 acres per day. From this experience, I take pleasure in recommending your Cutters above the hemp cradle and hook, not only as labor-saving, by the expedition with which they cut, but as hemp saving, from the perfect thoroughness, evenness and nearness to the ground with which they do their work, and the regular and collected form in which they leave the hemp after being cut. "Yours respectfully, "EDWARD S. COX." [7] The cutters were lengthened by removing a board that previously reduced the cutting space to 4-1/2 feet in length. "Carrolton, Lebanon Co., Ill., "Sept., 1850. "_Mr. O. Hussey:_ "The four Reaping and Mowing Machines you sent arrived safe and in good order. Their performance far exceeded our expectations, the work went on so smoothly that we scarcely knew it was hay time and harvest. * * * If your machine had been as well known as they are now, you could have sold twenty as well as one. "Yours, "JONAS WARD."