n fifty acres of wheat, to purchase
one. He may rest assured that he will be pleased with his purchase. I
shall probably be in Richmond shortly.

"Yours very respectfully,

"T. POLLOCK BURGUYN.

"Occonichee Wigwam, near Halifax, N. C.,
"June 20, 1846.

"For 1849 and 1850 we will return and see how the invention progresses
on the broad prairies and fertile lands of the West, where it first
operated--in 1833 and 1834--and where, too, although the most luxuriant
crops are _grown_ with comparatively but little labor, it would in
many cases be next to impossible to save _them_ without the aid of
this invaluable invention.

"These certificates embrace the mowing of large crops of grass as well as
grain, and in addition, the cutting of more than three hundred acres of
_hemp_ in the harvest of 1849 and 1850, by 'the same single machine.'

"Hussey's complete success in cutting grass and hemp was no new thing ten
years ago; but we suppose, like the grain cutting, in the view of Philip
Pusey, Esq., M. P., 'Its _perfection_ depended on its being _new_
only in England,' full eighteen years after it was effected in America.

[Sidenote: A General Opinion]

"Blackberry, Kane County, Ill.,
"August 28, 1849.

"This may certify that I have had one of Mr. Hussey's mowing and
reaping machines on my farm this year cutting wheat, oats, and grass
for a short time. I think nothing can beat it cutting timothy grass,
and I intend to purchase one for that purpose. While the machine was
cutting prairie grass in my field, I cut off a dry poplar stake, one
inch in diameter, which had been sticking in the ground after it had
been laid off for a ditch. I am of the opinion that it will cut
wheat well, where it is so much lodged, or so foul with stiff weeds
or corn stalks that it cannot be cut with any other machine I have
seen in this country. Some of my neighbors say that they intend to
have Mr. Hussey's reaper in preference to any other; and from what I
can learn this opinion is pretty general in my neighborhood amongst
those who have seen this machine work, and are acquainted with other
machines. My brother farmers have had great trouble with McCormick's
machine, by the breaking of sickles, and the great difficulty or
rather the impossibility of getting them repaired, or getting new
ones made when broken, whereas the blades of Mr. Hussey's machine
can be made