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Disk-Plow.

Description: Patent for a riding disk plow, which uses less horsepower, has no side draft, and does not get clogged in wet conditions.
Date: April 19, 1910
Creator: Martin, John H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Description: Patent for new and useful improvements in cultivators, relating to an attachment which may be applied to use upon any variety of cultivator with carrying-wheels, which provides efficient means for cutting cotton-stalks or weeds after cotton harvest.
Date: January 22, 1901
Creator: Kerr, Robert Lee
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Electric Attachment for Movable Objects.

Description: Patent for an electric device that can be attached to equipment such as plows or tractors which sends an electric current underground where the plow is going that prevents dirt from sticking to the equipment and clogging it when the ground is slightly wet.
Date: May 28, 1907
Creator: Dawkins, John R.
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Plow.

Description: Patent for an improved plow that holds steady in different kinds of soil and under different operating conditions. The inclination of the share can be adjusted whenever necessary.
Date: October 30, 1906
Creator: Huckabee, Jefferson E.
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Attachment for Wheel-Plows.

Description: Patent for "invention has relation to improvements in attachments to sulky and other horse-plows" (para. 3). Combines a circle-plate, transverse clamp-ridge, clamps, a bearing plate, a king-bolt, a transverse sleeve, an axle, adjusting collars, and transporting-wheels on said axle.
Date: March 11, 1879
Creator: Cummins, John Randolph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Moldboard.

Description: Patent for "a moldboard adapted to any plow constructed of a series of spring-loops, sundry of which are movable at the top and sundry others having movement at the bottom of the board, the moveable loops being kept in motion by the earth passing over the board, whereby portions of the board are rendered vibratory and the earth is effectually prevented from clinging thereto" (lines 8-17).
Date: September 22, 1896
Creator: Smith, Samuel A.
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Cultivator-Spreader.

Description: Patent for "new and useful improvements in Cultivator-Spreaders" (lines 5-7) which enables the operator of the cultivator to adjust the lateral spread of the plow beams without checking his team or withdrawing the plows from the soil, including illustrations.
Date: May 5, 1914
Creator: Nevins, Robinson C.
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Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for an improved gang-plow with an adjustable crank-axle, mechanism to raise and lock the plows, and a brace for increasing rigidity.
Date: January 27, 1874
Creator: Cummins, Allison G. & Cummins, John R.
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[Letter from Henry S. Moore to Charles, Mary and Linnet Moore, August 19, 1893]

Description: Letter from Henry Moore to Charles, Mary and Linnet Moore in which he jokes about starvation and then lists the food he has available to eat. He was writing the Moore family while they were visiting family in Gallatin, Tennessee. Henry writesthat he has heard that there are more buggies than hogs in Texas. He discusses the financial crisis of 1893. He also talks about farming, harvesting cotton, and canning peaches. He is interested and would like to see a six inch telescope that the "College … more
Date: August 19, 1893
Creator: Moore, Henry S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letters from Charles B. Moore to Mary Ann Moore, November 30 - December 2, 1897]

Description: This is a letter from the Charles B. Moore Collection. It is written by Charles B. Moore and is addressed to Mary Ann Moore. In this letter, Moore discusses the goings-on in Collin County since Mary's departure to Tennessee. He details community news and the health of friends, daily chores, weather updates, and a discussion about leading the calves to water. At the end of this letter, he notes that bright has paid him five dollars in interest and tell Mary the most current temperature reading.… more
Date: {1897-11-30,1897-12-01..1897-12-02}
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
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[Letter from Charles B. Moore to Bindie McGee and Linnet Moore, June 26, 1901]

Description: Letter from Charles B. Moore to Bindie McGee Linnet Moore saying that he would be glad for Bindie and Linnet to come to visit and help Mary Moore. He says that Linnet has started a trip to Springfield to visit relatives. He writes about the difficulties with the rail road keeping workers. Willy had a tooth pulled. He sends news of the activities of friends and family. Charles relates that he purchased a plow. He give updates on the work around the house and the farm.
Date: May 26, 1901
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
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Henry William Coit and family, Renner, Texas

Description: Photograph of 9 people standing on a steam tractor or attached gang plow. 2 women, three children, 4 men. The woman standing farthest right is veiled. The rear of the tractor is visible, in a partially plowed field. 2 women, 2 man, and 1 child (girl) are holding levers used to raise and lower the plows.
Date: 1900/1910
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Wheeled Sectional Harrow.

Description: Patent for an improved wheeled section harrow with a simple construction that provides a way to raise and lower the harrow sections as needed, and improves construction of the truck carrying the harrow.
Date: July 9, 1918
Creator: Mize, William H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Plows

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of plow-beams to be attached to the front axles of a wagon.
Date: July 6, 1869
Creator: Cummins, A. G. & Cummins, J. R.
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Plow

Description: Patent for the invention of new and improvements in plows (1). Provide a plow specifically adapted for use in rich heavy soil.
Date: May 19, 1885
Creator: Emmerson, Francis; Faires, Joseph; Cummins, John, R. & Faires, Jonathan, L.
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Plow.

Description: Patent for an improvement in plows by using a series of spring-tines that are secured above the mold-board, when in operation these independently-moving tines “serve to jar and break the clods, thus not only pulverizing the clods to a certain degree but also insuring the freeing of the tines of all dirt” (lines 90-93), including illustration.
Date: March 3, 1891
Creator: Ball, Alfred Fine
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow-Scraper.

Description: Patent for an adjustable plow-scraper that attaches to the plow and scrapes soil from the moldboard.
Date: July 7, 1896
Creator: Jackson, Robert Litel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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