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Boll Weevil Catcher.

Description: Patent for an insect-catching device with collection receptacles that operates on skids for better maneuverability in fields.
Date: March 30, 1920
Creator: Stukes, John Marion

Grass Destroyer

Description: Patent for mechanical grass destroying equipment. This machine produces the results of harrowers, diggers and plows to destroy unwanted plants such as Bermuda and Jackson grass by "sifting the earth off their roots and dropping it back on the ground, and collecting the tops and the roots." (lines 15-17).
Date: March 2, 1920
Creator: Coker, Alvin

BRIDLE-BIT

Description: Patent for an improved bridle bit for veterinary services, including illustrations.
Date: March 31, 1914
Creator: Mateer, Wilbur N.

Clothes-Pin.

Description: Patent for a clothes pin consisting of a single piece of bent wire.
Date: March 13, 1906
Creator: Stewart, James W.

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Description: Patent for "an automatic weighing-machine possessing simplicity, accuracy, and capable of continuous and automatic operation" (lines 13-16).
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.

Automatic Weighing-Machine

Description: Patent for new weighing machine and hopper dispensing cotton-seed meal, including illustrations
Date: March 12, 1901
Creator: Perry, Frank S.

Hay-Press.

Description: Patent for a hay press, which can form the hay bale without much pressure being exerted by the operators of the machine.
Date: March 15, 1910
Creator: Guynes, John W.

Cotton Gin

Description: Patent for cotton gin. Illustration included.
Date: March 7, 1905
Creator: Fuller, James T.

Oil Tank.

Description: Patent for a new and improved oil tank. This design "relates to improvements in oil-tanks, and has for its object to prevent the waste of oil when emptying the can or vessel in which it is received from the factory, and to avoid the odor arising from the oil, and also to prevent evaporation after the oil has been introduced into the tank" (lines 9-15).
Date: March 24, 1885
Creator: Fisher, Charles A.

Muzzle-Yolk.

Description: Patent for a cattle-yolk that stops the animals from jumping or breaking through fences. The yolk "will bind upon him, thus effectually stopping the animal from any further effort" (lines 12-15) if it tries to jump or break through a fence.
Date: March 10, 1896
Creator: Courtney, Thomas Lafayette

Fish-Trap.

Description: Patent for an improved fish-trap consisting of a net drawn in the rear of two boats with illustrations.
Date: March 26, 1889
Creator: Green, John E.

Cotton-Chopper.

Description: Patent for a new "machine for chopping surplus cotton or corn out of the rows or drills, leaving it in hills at the desired distance apart" (lines 8-11) including instructions and illustrations.
Date: March 23, 1886
Creator: Farley, John C.

Improvement in Car-Couplings.

Description: Patent for an improved train car-coupling, including illustrations.
Date: March 30, 1875
Creator: Garrett, Charles C.
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