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[News Clip: Still]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 4, 1981, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 29 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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Two-Row Planter

Description: Patent for a two-row planter, which includes two planting mechanisms. The planters are adjustable, "so that the distance between rows for seed planted can be regulated."
Date: March 30, 1915
Creator: Payne, Bishop M.
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Stalk-Cutter

Description: Patent for invention that "relates to improvements in 'stalk-cutters,' and pertains to a machine which is adapted to cut three rows of stalks at one operation and is provided with simple means for laterally extending the side cutters to permit the adjustment of the machine to cut rows of different widths" (lines 8-14). Illustrations are included.
Date: July 22, 1902
Creator: Williams, Mark D.
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Seed-Planter

Description: Patent for a seed planter operated by an axle. Illustrations included.
Date: February 22, 1910
Creator: Wilson, William A.
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Peanut-Harvester.

Description: Patent for improvements in peanut harvester machines with illustrations. The improvement is specific to "improved organiz[ation]" (line 10) and to "simplify and improve the construction" (line 18) of the harvester.
Date: August 12, 1919
Creator: Beard, Willie Lee
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Cultivator-Shovel

Description: Patent for a shovel that is designed for scrapping and opening furrows. The angle of the shovel blade can be easily adjusted to the correct angle as to make the correct size furrow row in the field.
Date: December 19, 1902
Creator: Johnson, Alvis
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Seed Planter

Description: Patent for a seed planter for use with planting corn and cotton. Illustration included.
Date: December 28, 1909
Creator: Wilson, William A. & Whaley, James M.
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Boll-Weevil Catcher

Description: Patent for a Boll-Weevil Catcher. This inventions allows for an attachment to cultivators to catch weevils existing on growing cotton plants. The weevils are extracted, captured in a pan, and can be disposed of. This is an important tool that catches and destroys insects without damaging the plants.
Date: August 2, 1921
Creator: Hitt, Reed R.
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Automatic Plow-Foot.

Description: Patent for an improved plow foot that allows for the easy installation or removal of the plow foot, secured connection of the plow foot, and improved regulation of the angle of the plow foot.
Date: July 29, 1913
Creator: Dugger, Thomas M.
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Cotton and Corn Chopper.

Description: Patent for an "attachment to a cultivator to chop or thin corn, cotton, and other drilled plants at the same time it is being plowed and without interfering in the work of the cultivator" (lines 14-18).
Date: February 26, 1907
Creator: Graham, Daniel O.
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