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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

Clipping and Pruning Shears.

Description: Patent for clipping and pruning shears that can have the blades taken off for sharpening.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: South, John P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Attachment for Lister-Plows.

Description: Patent for a lister plow, which is a device to be attached to listers, plows, and other farming equipment. The broad design (consisting of mold board wings) and blades (or knives) will remove weeds or prevent weeds from damaging different types of farming equipment.
Date: March 16, 1915
Creator: McCune, Floyd S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Machine for Disintegrating Fibrous Plants

Description: Patent for a machine that filters out the pulp from fibrous plants to obtain their fiber. Illustrations included.
Date: March 3, 1908
Creator: Hartman, Emil
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Weed-Killing Composition

Description: Patent for "new and useful composition of matter designed for killing and preventing the growth of weeds and noxious grasses, and is particularly designed for killing and preventing the growth of Bermuda and Johnson grasses." (lines 9-14)
Date: April 24, 1912
Creator: Owen, Hillery O.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Trap.

Description: Patent for an insect trap that entraps and kills insects that infest live plants or trees. This trap has a lantern to attract insects; the lantern is mounded in a pan that can be filled with liquid that injures and kills the insects.
Date: October 7, 1913
Creator: Cook, Katherine B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Lawn-Mower.

Description: Patent for a lawn mower that is easy to use and has long blades.
Date: May 2, 1911
Creator: Maldino, Mark
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transplanter

Description: Patent for a transplanter to move a rooted cotton plant and the soil around it to a different location. Illustrations included.
Date: September 17, 1912
Creator: Matthews, James T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Transplanting-Basket

Description: Patent for a basket for transplanting various types of plants. Illustrations included.
Date: February 18, 1908
Creator: Edwards, Charles L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Compounds for Destroying Insects on Plants.

Description: Patent for a “combination of flour and cotton-seed meal with paris green, for the destruction of cotton-worms or caterpillars, and other pestiferous insects” (lines 47-50).
Date: May 26, 1874
Creator: Royall, William B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Tree-Heater

Description: Patent for a tree heater for putting under small trees to protect them from cold weather.
Date: March 4, 1913
Creator: Wilson, Luther M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Exterminating Johnson Grass.

Description: Patent for a method to kill Johnson grass (Sorghum halepense) by repeatedly breaking up the ground around the plant during winter.
Date: July 16, 1901
Creator: Harpold, Clay
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Preserved Wood and Process of Making Same.

Description: Patent for a method of injecting preservative materials, in a manner that will reduce the cost of the treatment without greatly reducing the preservative action.
Date: March 19, 1912
Creator: Ellis, Carleton
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Process of Making Salve.

Description: Patent for a process for making salve from sheep sorrel leaves and stems in a copper pot that produces a medical paste.
Date: April 2, 1912
Creator: Herald, John W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Syrup-Pan

Description: Patent for a syrup pan for boiling down sap into syrup that keeps the solid matter in the pan and only lets the liquid syrup flow out.
Date: August 6, 1912
Creator: Baker, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Regulating Growth

Description: Patent for a method of regulating growth. This is new method of regulating the growth of the roots of trees, plants, and shrubbery.
Date: October 20, 1903
Creator: Risien, Edmund E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grass and Weed Exterminator.

Description: Patent for a grass and weed exterminator, especially those weeds that roots are a network of runners that can't be pulled up. The destroyer plows them up, ten inches or more, and sifts through the dirt, pulling up the network of plants.
Date: September 29, 1896
Creator: Briggs, George, W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Scuffle-Hoe

Description: Patent for a garden hand tool for destroying weeds and stirring, or aerating, soil. Used for garden crops.
Date: March 25, 1879
Creator: Munson, T. V. (Thomas Volney), 1843-1913
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Flower-Pot.

Description: Patent for a flower-pot that doesn't damage the roots of the plant while transplanting the plant. The pot has a removable bottom and sides made from sheet metal with clasps.
Date: October 29, 1895
Creator: Simpson, McDuff
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fiber-Cleaning Machine

Description: Patent for a machine for decorticating plants and cleaning the pulp from the fibers. Illustrations included.
Date: July 18, 1911
Creator: Vaughan, Henry L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Insect-Destroyer

Description: Patent for an insect destroyer in the form of an oven that can be placed on the ground in the rows between plants to kill insects. This machine has an added benefit of killing weeds, as well.
Date: February 5, 1918
Creator: Cameron, George W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Method of Destroying Stumps of Trees.

Description: Patent for a method of destroying the stumps of persimmon and sassafras trees using saltpeter, soda, and salt.
Date: April 1, 1902
Creator: McLelland, Jacob J. E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Root-Puller.

Description: Patent for a root puller for pulling up Mesquite tree root clumps.
Date: September 27, 1910
Creator: McGehee, George T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a planter which distributes seeds from the top of the seed hopper rather than from the bottom, allowing the operator to see that it is distributing seeds properly.
Date: March 10, 1914
Creator: Maddux, Jesse D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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