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[Photograph of Small Farm House and Shed]

Description: Photograph of a very small, one-story, wooden house sitting on cinder-blocks in the middle of a wide, open area of dirt and small weeds. To the left, a small wooden shack sits within a barbed wire and wooden fence. Other wooden shacks and small houses are visible in the background.
Date: [1900..1929]
Partner: Howard Payne University Library

Insect-Destroyer.

Description: Patent for machine "designed to be carried by a cultivator or mounted upon wheels and adapted to discharge the fumes of sulfur and other insecticides upon cotton and other plants to destroy the cotton-weevil, caterpillar, worms, and various other forms of insect life [and to] provide a construction which will insure a steady feed of the sulfur or other insecticide employed and thereby render the discharge of the fumes regular and of uniform strength" (lines 12-23).
Date: January 9, 1900
Creator: Passmore, Benjamin H. & May, Robert B.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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