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[News Script: Corn]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: September 11, 1970, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Headlines]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story recapping the daily science headlines.
Date: January 24, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Girls Holding Corn

Description: Postcard of two girls in a rural setting holding several large ears of corn. In the background are several animal-drawn carts secured to what appear to be horses. The girls are identified as, from left to right, Mogie Callaway and Geraldine McCullough
Date: unknown
Partner: Mesquite Public Library

[News Script: Beer]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about agriculture department which says supplies of corn and other feed grains are headed towards their lowest level in 20 years.
Date: August 24, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Stalk Cutter

Description: Patent for a motor powered cutting machine to cut large amounts of vegetation, such as corn, at one time.
Date: October 10, 1916
Creator: McNally, Frank A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planting Mechanism.

Description: Patent for a hopper that attaches to a planter that allows different types and sizes of seed to be dropped from it. Especially targeted toward corn and cotton seed.
Date: May 21, 1907
Creator: Hodge, Neely B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Portable Scale.

Description: Patent for an improved, simple, and inexpensive portable scale meant for weighing cotton, corn, and other similar produce. It folds compactly when not in use, and has a tally device.
Date: August 8, 1893
Creator: Storey, Julius W.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Grain-Planter.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive, simple, and durable grain planter that plants large grains like corn, peas, and wheat. The improved machine is perfectly timed and does not crush the seeds.
Date: February 7, 1893
Creator: Yarbrough, Orceneth Fisher
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automatic Cotton or Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for an automatic cotton or corn planter that is simple and inexpensive, and is a line of planters that sows in parallel rows that does not need to be guided by hand. The devices are independently adjustable.
Date: March 13, 1894
Creator: Nehrmeyer, Henry
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a planter meant for planting corn and cotton seeds, although it can be used for distributing seed and fertilizer in general. It doesn't need a covering-shovel or supporting-wheels, and covers the seeds through adjustable covering-disks. The seeding mechanisms are operated by shafts on which the disks are mounted.
Date: September 3, 1895
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn and Cotton Planter.

Description: Patent for an inexpensive and simply constructed corn and cotton planter that has an "improved mechanism for transmitting motion from the drive-wheel to the seed-disk; to so construct said mechanism as to operate only when the planter is being advanced and to remain inoperative when being drawn backward; to provide for a change of speed for the seed-disk so as to plant close together or far apart as may be desired; and to provide a new and improved hood or protector for the gear connection betw… more
Date: December 5, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Combined Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for an improved, inexpensive, and simple planter that is "adapted to plant either corn or cotton and that at predetermined distances; to so construct the machine as to adapt it readily for change from one form of planter to the other; and to improve the manner of securing the furrow-opening shovel-carrying standard and the seed tube, whereby the former and latter are prevented from breaking or becoming injured should they contact with a stone, stump, or other obstacle of sufficient size … more
Date: May 16, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton and Corn Planter

Description: Patent for "a durable and illexpensive planter which will serve to plant both corn and cotton in a perfect manner, and thus combine the two machines in one" (lines 11-14).
Date: October 15, 1889
Creator: Letot, Clement
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cotton and Corn Planter.

Description: Patent for a cotton and corn planter that does not put as much pressure on the tongue of the machine as previous models and that allows the plow attachment to be lifted higher off the ground to avoid obstacles.
Date: June 4, 1907
Creator: Goodnight, Frank H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Corn or Cotton Planter

Description: Patent for improvements on corn or cotton planters, especially referring to patent no. 692,646. These improvements are meant to "Simplify the means of adjusting the position of the plows and seed-dropper, to improve the frame construction, and in general to simplify and improve the whole machine" (lines 16-19) Includes instructions and illustrations
Date: September 4, 1903
Creator: Simmons, Gideon B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Composition Fuel

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvement in composition fuel, the object being to produce fuel in compact form which will burn quickly, rapidly generating an intense heat, and leaving but a small quantity of a residue or ash" (lines 10-15).
Date: January 15, 1901
Creator: Patterson, Warren A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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