Obed Hussey, Baltimore, Md.:_

"Dear Sir:--I have used one of your Mowing and Reaping Machines, and
consider it the best machine I ever saw, and never intend to do
without one, if it is possible to get one, even if I have to go to
Baltimore and remain at the shop till one can be made. I do candidly
believe if I had had one ten years ago I would now feel like a much
younger man; and cheerfully recommend them to all who have grass or
grain to cut, as a machine that will do their work in perfect order,
neatness, and with ease to all employed.

"JOHN SIMMS,
"Four miles west of Springfield, Ill."

"Utica, Lasal Co., Ill.,
"Dec. 14, 1850.

"_Obed Hussey, Esq.:_

"Dear Sir:--I received your Reaping and Mowing Machine in time for
harvest, and used it for harvesting and for mowing. I am fully
satisfied that your machines are the best yet offered to the farmers
of this State. I have mowed about four hundred acres, a great
portion of which was wild prairie, very frequently running against
stones and ant heaps with sufficient force to throw both driver and
raker off the machine, without injury to the machine. Why your
machine is preferable to any other, is, after you have cut your
different kinds of grain, fully as well as can be done with any
other machine, with not over fifteen minutes' work, you can take the
same machine into your meadow or on to the prairie, and cut your
grass at the rate of ten acres per day, cutting closer and cleaner
than can be done with a scythe. With proper care, your machines will
last fifteen or twenty years, with trifling repairs.

"Respectfully yours,

JAMES CLARK."

"Island Grove, Sangamon Co., Ill.,
"December 25, 1850.

"_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