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Row-Binder.

Description: Patent for a type of new row binders by "use of rotary cuffs and adjustable bottom disposed conveyer belts" (lines 14-15), with illustrations.
Date: September 11, 1917
Creator: Gruben, Edward J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Beet-Harvester

Description: Patent for a beet-harvester that improves the efficiency and lowers the cost of beet-gripping devices, including illustrations.
Date: December 22, 1914
Creator: Stone, John E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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[News Clip: Melons]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about watermelon harvesting season in the Parker County town of Weatherford.
Date: September 7, 1955
Duration: 3 minutes 47 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Cotton Picking Machinery

Description: Cropped copy-photograph of a cotton-picking tractor in San Patricio County, TX. Several large shields are protruding from the tractor to protect the tires and assist with harvest. A large piece of machinery is attached to the rear of the tractor. Several tanks and pipes are also on the top of the engine. A hardware and furniture store is visible behind the tractor.
Date: unknown
Partner: Bell/Whittington Public Library

Cotton Picking Machinery

Description: Cropped copy-photograph of a Farmall cotton-harvesting machine. A large, plow-type attachment is shown attached to the undercarriage. The rear half of the engine is also visible. The word, "Farmall" is seen on the console immediately in front of the steering wheel.
Date: unknown
Partner: Bell/Whittington Public Library

[News Script: Wire]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about list of shortages that the public has to contend with these days which has grown to include bailing wire and hay.
Date: July 26, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wheat harvest]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about harvesters who ran out of gasoline and diesel fuels in the Burkburnett area.
Date: June 8, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Wheel.

Description: Patent for "improvements in wheels particularly designed for use on harvesters in heavy or muddy ground." (Lines 8-10) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: May 26, 1891
Creator: Stroud, Wiley N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design, when "traversing soft and marshy soil[,] the ribs or lugs engage in the surface in the ordinary way; but in passing over hard or stony soil the flange bears on the surface and prevents jarring. The ribs and the flange are flush with each other . . . and this height may be considerably more than that of the ordinary ribs . . . for the reason that the said height does not affect the regularity of motion of the wheel in passing over hard soil. The … more
Date: October 16, 1888
Creator: Hatch, Jerome B. & Stroud, Wiley N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Wheel.

Description: Patent for a new and improved wheel. This design consists in "inner spokes [that] are inclined outwardly, and the outer spokes [that] are inclined inwardly toward their remote ends, whereby compression of the rim of the wheel is transformed into lateral thrusts on the hub, and the lateral thrusts counterbalance each other" (lines 45-51).
Date: April 9, 1889
Creator: Stroud, Wiley N.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Stalk-Pullers.

Description: Patent for an "improved machine designed especially for pulling cotton-stalks, but which may be used with advantage for pulling other stalks, weeds, &c., and which shall be so constructed as to clear itself of the stalks as they are pulled" (para. 4).
Date: April 11, 1876
Creator: Butler, George W. & O'Connell, Timothy P.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stalk-Cutter.

Description: Patent for "a new and valuable Improvement in Corn and Cotton Stalk Cutters" (lines 5-7). It includes a description and an illustration. The construction of this stalk cutter is "adapted to be driven across the field in the direction of the rows of corn, and the knives may be adjusted to operate on rows of different widths or at different depths, so as to leave only a small stubble in passing over the field" (lines 73-78).
Date: May 20, 1884
Creator: Brown, Azariah R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Harvester

Description: Patent for harvesting produce, as well as straightening fallen stalks for easier harvesting.
Date: November 14, 1916
Creator: Bachtel, J. Sidney
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Threshing-Machine.

Description: Patent for a harvester in a threshing machine, which can be put at different levels from the ground.
Date: August 31, 1909
Creator: Haynes, Thomas S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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