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Soil Survey of Williamson County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Williamson County, Texas.
Date: 1983
Creator: Werchan, Leroy E. & Coker, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

General Soil Map, Williamson County, Texas

Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, towns, schools, churches, power transmission lines, oil and gas pipelines, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols. Scale 1:316,800.
Date: 1982
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil survey, Williamson County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, agricultural methods and management, and morphology and genesis of soils in Williamson County, Texas.
Date: November 1938
Creator: Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry), 1903-; Bean, Arnold H., 1908-; Huckabee, J.W. (John Walter), 1912-; Smith, Leslie H. & Layton, M. H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil map, Williamson County, Texas

Description: Map displays soil types along with creeks, rivers, towns, schools, churches, roads, and railroads. Includes legend and symbols.
Date: November 1938
Creator: United States. Bureau of Chemistry and Soils.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Sam Bass 100 Years Later 1878-1978

Description: Pamphlet published on the 100th anniversary of the death of Sam Bass that provides a biographical sketch of the man, a description of Round Rock, Texas, information on his grave site, and the ballad and legend that came from hos death.
Date: 1978
Creator: Sam Bass Centennial Commission
Partner: Round Rock Public Library

[Andrew J. Nelson Farm in the Country]

Description: Photograph taken facing east of the Nelson family gathered on the back top and bottom porches of the farm house built by Andrew J. Nelson, whom can be seen sitting on the bottom porch. A label with text on the front mat of the photo reads, "A. J. Nelson Farm in the Country. Family on proch. Built by Mr. A. J. Nelson in 1854, stone hand sawed. Stone from Cedar Park. (Notice lightning rods on top of roof)". The text can be seen repeated in penciled handwriting on the back.
Date: unknown
Partner: Round Rock Public Library

Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.

Description: This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date: 1895
Creator: Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
Partner: UNT Libraries

Plow-Beam.

Description: Patent for "effective means whereby the component parts of a plow-beam can be relatively adjusted according to the nature of the work in hand or to meet certain conditions, thereby facilitating the work and increasing or decreasing the draft." (Lines 8-13) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 25, 1897
Creator: Miller, Henry A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Plow Attachment for Planters.

Description: Patent for an invention "to equip any style of planter with a plow attachment for breaking and opening the soil in advance of the furrow-opener and seeding mechanism." (Lines 8-11). Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: September 7, 1897
Creator: Conoley. Malcom C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Planter.

Description: Patent for a planter "especially designed for planting seed and preparing the ground in advance of the opener, so as to remove weeds, trash, and other foreign matter from the path of the shovel preparing the furrow to receive the seed." (Lines 9-14) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: October 12, 1897
Creator: Tinning, James D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seeder and Cultivator.

Description: Patent for "an arrangement whereby the usual corn and cotton planters are supplied with a preceding or furrow-opening plow." (Lines 8-11) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: June 11, 1895
Creator: Hester, William
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Seeding-Machine.

Description: Patent for "a new and useful improvements in Seeding-Machines" (lines 5-6) the light draft interchangeable seeding-machine can be converted from a cotton-planter to a corn-planter, and vice versa. The invention is "compact, simple, and durable" (line 13)
Date: June 29, 1880
Creator: McCall, John L.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Gang-Plows.

Description: Patent for "a novel means of hanging the gang of plows beneath the draft-frame, in combination with levers and link-connections, whereby the plows can be adjusted to run at any desired depth, and firmly held after the adjustment." (Lines 18-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: December 21, 1875
Creator: McCormick, John R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Automobile Attachment

Description: Patent for an automobile attachment designed to utilize the power produced by motorized engines for various farming implements.
Date: September 23, 1919
Creator: Klima, J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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