Rhode Island Temperance Herald

Hussey's Reaping Machine.-Mr. Charles Carroll, of Dougheregan Manor, having fully tested the advantages of his reaping machine, during the harvest which is about to close in this quarter, speaks in very decided terms as to its merits. Mr. Carroll has upwards of two hundred acres of grain to cut with this machine "on all kinds of ground, not too stony, and in light and heavy wheat;" and in a communication to the Chronicle, he gives it as his opinion, that it is impossible for cradles to cut grain as clean or as evenly, for it takes every head and leaves the stubble accurately level. In heavy grain, however, the machine is represented as showing to most advantage~performing in such grain, the work of four cradlers, and furnishing employment for eight good active binders. The machine is drawn by two horses, which, in constant or heavy work, should be changed twice a day. The Machine is evidently a valuable invention, or improvement, in the matter of harvesting; and Mr. Carroll observes, that it may be applied to the cutting of clover seed; and with some alterations to the cutting of meadows and all kinds of grass. As to its allotted use as a 'reaper,' he thinks it will soon be seen upon all farms where it is found necessary to have a thrashing machine.-Baltimore Patriot.