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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
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Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a simple and inexpensive cotton chopper that is "adapted for simultaneously forming rows and cross-chopping the same, thus bringing plants, such as cotton, &c., to a stand, all in one operation, and thereby avoiding the necessity, as occurs in some cases of plowing or cultivating two ways in a field for the purpose of forming rows and then the stands or for any hand hoeing, as is also commonly done" (lines 12-19).
Date: September 12, 1893
Creator: Schofield, James Drommond
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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
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Texas Superintendent of Public Instruction Biennial Report: 1887-1888

Description: Biennial report of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Texas Department of Education discussing the educational needs in the state, documenting information and statistics regarding schools and students, and reporting on agency activities for the scholastic years 1887 and 1888.
Date: 1888
Creator: Texas. State Department of Education.
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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
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