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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

[News Script: Butz]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Earl Butz who says administration will stand by its decision not to control exports of wheat and corn despite news that those crops might be smaller than projections of a moth ago.
Date: August 9, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Harvester

Description: Patent for a harvester for corn and other, similar crops with a cutting mechanism that may be raised or lowered based on the height of the stalks. Illustrations included.
Date: February 9, 1909
Creator: Parton, Andrew Jackson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn and Cotton Planter

Description: Patent for "a novel planting mechanism for planting either corn or cotton-seed, at the pleasure of the operator, by a simple adjustment of parts, and thereby adapt the machine for sowing different kinds of seeds and save the farmer the expense of two different machines" (lines 19-25).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Cathey, Thomas Jefferson
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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