Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap

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"To which is appended the following postscript:

"'I have been a practical farmer forty years; and am well satisfied, that, on a large farm, this machine will save wheat enough, beyond the scythe and hooks, to pay all the expense of cutting and binding.

'SAMUEL LE COMPTE.'"

I next quoted again from the "Valley of the Upper Wabash, Indiana:"

Silver medal won by Mr. Hussey with the Reaper at Baltimore in 1850.

HUSSEY'S GRAIN CUTTER

Invitation of Agricultural Board

"Report of the Board of Trustees of 'The Maryland Agricultural Society,' for the Eastern Shore, on the machine for harvesting small grain, invented by Mr. Obed Hussey, of Cincinnati, Ohio.

How the Reaper Worked