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Seed Planter and Cultivator. (open access)

Seed Planter and Cultivator.

Patent for a new and improved planter and cultivator. This design "relates to combined seed-planters and cultivators intended for different kinds of seeds and crops; and it consists of a novel construction of machine having a detachable harrow and seed-drum, and being what [the inventors] call a 'universal seed-planter and cultivator'" (lines 14-20).
Date: October 5, 1880
Creator: Thompson, James W. & Lloyd, James
System: The Portal to Texas History