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[News Script: Butz]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about an agreement made between the United States and Mexico to rid their cattle from screwworms.
Date: August 29, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Screwworm]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the construction of a screwworm eradication plant in Mexico City.
Date: August 27, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: D.E.S. controversy]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about beef feeders in the Texas panhandle being dejected after a ferderal ban on the use of D.E.S. hormone additive in feedlot rations and that the ban would cost them more to feed their cattle.
Date: August 3, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard to prevent animals from going on railroad tracks by installing plates which grate and rock if an animal steps on them to scare the animals away from the tracks.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: Herring, Henry H.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Cattle-Guard.

Description: Patent for a cattle guard, which is made up of a wedge shaped piece of metal that allows a cows leg to be caught rather than the foot to allow easier removal of the leg by the cow.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Mosher, Benjamin E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Midland County Courthouse, historic plaque on grounds

Description: Photograph of a historical marker in Midland, Texas. It reads: "Midland County (created and organized, March 1885). First known as the junction of many trails and site of the last Comanche raid into Texas. In 1881 the Texas and Pacific Railroad was built; equi-distant between El Paso and Fort Worth, this became known as Midland. First settler was a sheepman in 1882. Cattlemen came with Herefords in 1888. Water wells and windmills lured small farmers. Became headquarters for 1928 Permian Basin o… more
Date: August 6, 2005
Creator: Belden, Dreanna L.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Clip: Wild horses]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 17, 1979, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 42 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Beef]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 29, 1979, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Rain]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 4, 1978, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 10 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Transcript of Letter from Maud C. Fentress to David W. Fentress, August 29, 1859]

Description: Transcript of a letter to David Fentress from his mother, Maud, discussing news from Bolivar, Tennessee which includes: Maud's health and the health of Anne and Sallie; home improvements made to Maud's house; a horse purchased by Maud; the health of the cattle and the hogs as well as the death of a cow from "black tongue" and the death of ten hogs from cholera; news of David's baby, it's growth and health, and it's appearance; news of the weather; a dialogue about Jimmie and Mary as well as det… more
Date: August 29, 1859
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Animal-Stock.

Description: Patent for an improved animal-stock that holds animals during branding, dehorning, castrating, &c. It looks like an open-topped cage where the operator puts the animal, and the animal cannot move. The invention is on a platform and can tip to one side and a chain is tied from the top of the machine to the bottom of the frame.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Schecher, Conrad
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Ox Riding]

Description: Photograph of Jethro Holmes and his ox at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jethro wears a denim shirt and denim pants, a blue bow tie and a cowboy hat. He holds the reins to his pair of black oxen harnessed with a brightly-colored yoke as a child prepares to ride one of the oxen.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Cow Milking Contest]

Description: Photograph of a cow milking contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Two men wearing white shirts with jeans and brown belts lean over cows as they race to milk them completely.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jethro Holmes with His Oxen]

Description: Photograph of Jethro Holmes showing his oxen at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. Jethro wears a straw hat with a long-sleeve shirt and denim pants. He holds the ropes attached to each yoke of his oxen as he walks around festival grounds.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Milking Contest]

Description: Photograph of a festival-goer participating in a milking contest at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The woman wears a shirt and jeans as she sits on a small stool, milking the udders of a dairy cow. A contest judge stands to her left, on the other side of the cow, watching her milk.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Milking Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of festival participants presenting their dairy cattle at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The four festival participants stand on the hill outside of the Institute of Texas Cultures, preparing for a milking demonstration sponsored by the Associated Milk Producers.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Sugar Processing Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Jethro Holmes and his oxen working the sugar cane mill at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The black oxen are harnessed to the sugar cane mill, walking in circles to give the machine its' power. Jethro stands to the left of one of his ox, holding its' reins and guiding it around the circle.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections

[Jethro Holmes Sugar Mill Demonstration]

Description: Photograph of Jethro Holmes and his oxen working the sugar cane mill at the Texas Folklife Festival in San Antonio, Texas. The black oxen are harnessed to the sugar cane mill, walking in circles to give the machine its' power. Jethro stands to the left of one of his ox, holding its' reins and guiding it around the circle.
Date: [1976-08-05..1976-08-08]
Creator: Smith, Jim
Partner: UT San Antonio Libraries Special Collections
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