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Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutters" (lines 5-7). It includes a description and an illustration. The construction of this stalk cutter is "adapted to be driven across the field in the direction of the rows of corn, and the knives may be adjusted to operate on rows of different widths or at different depths, so as to leave only a small stubble in passing over the field" (lines 73-78).
Date: May 20, 1884
Creator: Brown, Azariah R.
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Planting Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a hopper that attaches to a planter that allows different types and sizes of seed to be dropped from it. Especially targeted toward corn and cotton seed.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Hodge, Neely B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple planter that is "adapted to plant either corn or cotton and that at predetermined distances; to so construct the machine as to adapt it readily for change from one form of planter to the other; and to improve the manner of securing the furrow-opening shovel-carrying standard and the seed tube, whereby the former and latter are prevented from breaking or becoming injured should they contact with a stone, stump, or other obstacle of sufficient size … more
Date: May 16, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn-Header.

Description: Patent for a device for the removal of the heads of corn. The device contains a blade and attaches to a person's hand.
Date: May 2, 1916
Creator: Hooper, Howard Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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