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Agricultural Implement

Description: Patent for agricultural implement used for tilling the soil so as to prepare the land for planting. It is used to reduce clods, loosens, and levels the soil.
Date: September 17, 1918
Creator: Powell, George Dietz
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Animal Poke.

Description: Patent for a new and improved animal poke. This design "is to construct a device which may be secured to horses, cattle, and other animals, and which will effectually prevent fence-jumping, while at the same time allow the animal free use of [its] head and limbs, doing away with any tendency to cramp the wearer" (lines 17-23). It consists, "with bar and a means for suspending it beneath the animal's body and the bar, which is secured at its outer end to the animal's head, of a hinge to the oppo… more
Date: May 17, 1892
Creator: Stracener, Upton W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton and Cotton Seed Press.

Description: Patent for improvements to cotton and cotton-seed presses that uses a combination of pulleys with a screw "to produce a very powerful press in which the follower is operated by four sets of toggle-joints, two of which are operated by a screw and the other two by a rope and tackle, so as to produce twice the amount of power usually exerted in toggle-joint presses" (lines 23-29).
Date: June 14, 1887
Creator: Drew, John Melvin
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Cotton-Presses.

Description: Patent for the improvement of the cotton press using a cam-lever for operating the side of the press-box with two different application of power, including illustration.
Date: February 16, 1858
Creator: Witting, F. W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Starving Cattle]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 3, 1988, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping of Mule-Drawn Wagon Photo]

Description: Reproduction of a newspaper clipping from the front page of the Johnson County News issue, including part of the banner and featuring a photo with the caption "Common Sight." In the image, a man identified as Enos Payne is seated on the bench of a low, open wagon hitched to two mules. The wagon is stopped in front of an area with a number of bare trees. A note is handwritten in blue ink above the photo: "This man use [sic] to plow Papa's Garden." Additional information is printed on the ba… more
Date: April 25, 1974
Partner: Johnson County Historical Commission

Cultivator.

Description: Patent for a new "construct in which plow shanks may be easily and quickly secured by spring latches"(lines 106-108) and accompanying illustrations.
Date: November 18, 1913
Creator: Bonneau, John B., Jr.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Check-Row Attachment for Corn-Planters

Description: Patent for "an improved check-row attachment for corn-planting machines, the object of my invention being to provide an efficient mechanism for actuating the seed-dropping mechanism of the corn-planter and which my be operated by the feet of the driver or by a check-wire in such manner as to cause the seeds to be planted in check-rows." (lines 8-15) including illustrations.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Agee, George S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cultivator

Description: Patent for improving attachment for a cultivator whereby an ordinary cultivator and wherein the cutting blade is effectively held against displacement after the attachment has been applied to a beam.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Griffice, George D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Cleaner

Description: Patent for cotton cleaners which serve as accessories in cotton ginning operations and in the present instance are used with a pneumatic cotton distributing elevator or conveying means cooperating with gin feeders.
Date: August 21, 1917
Creator: Murray, Stephen D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Boll-Weevil Machine.

Description: Patent for a pneumatic device to remove and crush boll weevils and their associated bolls on cotton plants, in the ground around cotton plants, and in the air.
Date: October 16, 1917
Creator: Jones, Henry A. & Harrell, Billington C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard consisting of pivoted metal plates, mounted longitudinally on rail ties that rock to an inclined position when stepped on by an animal. The displacement of the plates causes a portion of the plate to come into contact with the foot of the animal, frightening it and preventing the animal from crossing the cattle guard.
Date: October 21, 1913
Creator: Hagan, Francis D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton Seed Linter

Description: Patent for the improvement of cotton lint linter parts and construction. Improvements to the parts remove cotton seed lint before entering the lint conveying flue.
Date: August 20, 1918
Creator: Henry, Nelson B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Header.

Description: Patent for a grain header that will guide and cut a standard length of the stalk below the head, adjustable to the type of grain being harvested.
Date: August 1, 1922
Creator: Kesterson, Mat W. & Latimer, James H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Fun with Dad]

Description: Photograph of siblings Cassie (left), Tyson, and Toni Marie (right) standing on the lifted forks of a farm forklift in their backyard, driven by their father Tony LaRue (visible at right). The wall of the yard is visible in the center of the image.
Date: 1994?
Creator: Jones, Christine
Partner: El Paso Community College
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