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[News Clip: Farm equipment]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 9, 1981, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 46 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clipping: Stump Thumper]

Description: Newspaper clipping from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch with articles about a Stump Driver in Arkansas, new garment pieces for woman, advertisements, the Rose Parade, hospital stays, and a building demolition.
Date: January 9, 1955
Creator: Witman, Arthur
Location: None
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Photograph of Farm Equipment and Debris]

Description: Photograph of a piece of farm equipment with large tires covered and surrounded by debris after the Higgins/Glazier, Texas tornado. There are wires across the top of the photograph. The debris includes many pieces of wooden beams and there are cinder blocks in the background.
Date: April 9, 1947
Creator: McMurry, J. W.
Partner: Wolf Creek Heritage Museum

[News Script: Farm show]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the second day of the Southwest farmers convention which is displaying from the latest innovations in farm equipment to hotrods.
Date: March 9, 1974, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Clod-Crusher

Description: This patent is for a clod crusher. The purpose of this patent is to make clod crushing more effective and efficient through the action of the cutting members and not by the weight of apparatus alone.
Date: April 9, 1918
Creator: Weems, Thomas J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wire Fence Building Implement

Description: Patent for a wire fence building implement. This implement is "adapted to take up slack in an unbroken fence-wire, draw together ends of a broken fence-wire, so as to permit said ends to be spliced together, cut off surplus wire, and pull staples from the fence-posts" (lines 9-15). Illustrations included.
Date: June 9, 1903
Creator: Hall, Ed Francis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Sulky-Plows.

Description: This pantent was created for the construction and preperation of a sulky plow cultivator. The invention was created for new and mechanical improvements.
Date: April 9, 1878
Creator: Tucker, Argyle W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Percussion-Shells.

Description: This patent was created for individuals to be able to hit an object with the instrument and the oject immediately explodes on impact. It then produces an excessive amount of explosions. The invention is made out of shells with sections assembled together infused with different substances, and connected by a fuse.
Date: April 9, 1878
Creator: Urquhart, John M.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

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

Tramper-Press

Description: Patent for a tramper press for pressing cotton into bales. Illustrations included.
Date: April 9, 1912
Creator: Wilson, Ralph E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement In Corn And Cotton-Seed Planters.

Description: This patent is an upgraded corn and seed planter machine that plants corn, cotton, and other types of seeds for mass production. The machine is aligned with the surface of the ground. It does not converse with the plows that are attached to it, freeing up the machine to release seeds proficiently with ease.
Date: April 9, 1878
Creator: Adams, Benjamin F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter that attaches to a cultivator and will move up if it hits an obstacle.
Date: May 9, 1911
Creator: Bird, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter that is light but durable that cuts the stalks up small enough that they can be plowed under the field to enrich the soil for the next crop.
Date: April 9, 1907
Creator: Cooper, Joseph P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a stalk cutter, which can go through small obstacles without harm to the machine and has easily removable blades.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Chapa, Francisco Pena
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for a cotton stalk cutter, which cuts the stalks into small pieces that easily decompose into the soil.
Date: January 9, 1912
Creator: Sikes, Rufus N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow

Description: Patent for improvements to plows with laterally extending adjustable wings, as well as other different styles of plow and cultivator standards, with illustration.
Date: March 9, 1915
Creator: Armentraut, Richard B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Seed-Planters.

Description: Patent for a seed feeder using a tube connected to a revolving cylinder at the bottom of the hopper to deposit the seeds into the earth, including illustration.
Date: March 9, 1858
Creator: Doss, William C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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