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[Plants by the river(1)]

Description: Photograph of mountain laurel growing along the banks of a river. There is a scythe visible hanging in a tree in the right of the photo. Hazel Petrey and Gilbert Dove collected pine-baugh and mountain laurel to decorate the Sunny View Methodist Church for their wedding. Narrative by Junebug Clark: More images and information can be found in the July 28, 1941 issue of Life Magazine, pages 82-85 in the story “Life Magazine Goes to a Kentucky Wedding.” Also in the Joe Clark, HSSS book “ Country … more
Date: 1941
Creator: Clark, Joe
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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.
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Separating Machine

Description: Patent for separation of the foreign materials from the seed meats by means of an air blast directed against the materials as they fall by gravity from an inclined shaker or agitator, the lighter foreign matter being thereby separated from the heavier seed meats which continue their decent so a suitable conveyer of recptacle
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Buckley, Andrew Jackson
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Swingletree Clip

Description: Patent for providing an improved form of swingletree clip which is simple in construction, may be cheaply made and in which the eye which connects the hook to the clips swiveled so that the hook may rotate and thus there will be no change of disengagement between the draft connections and the swingletree.
Date: August 14, 1917
Creator: Leasman, John D.
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for a cotton chopper designed so that the blade moves "transversely across a standing row of plants" (lines 15-16). Illustrations included.
Date: February 23, 1909
Creator: Ellis, Thomas Henry
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Cotton-Chopper

Description: Patent for new improvements in cotton choppers which allows them to be durable and strong, yet flexible with adjustable parts to accommodate soil and growth conditions including instructions and illustrations.
Date: July 7, 1903
Creator: Gerding, Fred F.
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