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four brushes sweeping in various directions, and thoroughly rids the plants of. the pests. What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- 5 The combination with a straddle-row casing having a passage therethrough for the plants, of horizontal and vertical rotary brushes on each side of the casing, a horizontal brush on one side being opposite the vertical brush on
the other, and insect - killing devices under io the brushes. In testimony whereof we affix our signa- tures in presence of two witnesses. CHARLES V. DYER. WILLIE S. WILLETTE. Witnesses: L. BURNES, J. H. COLLINS.
Dyer, Charles V. & Willette, Willie S.Insect - Destroying Machine.,
patent,
September 8, 1903;
[Washington D.C.].
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth512854/m1/4/:
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