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Insectifuge Fertilizer for Cotton. (open access)

Insectifuge Fertilizer for Cotton.

Patent for an insectifuge fertilizer for cotton, which promotes the growth of the cotton plant and prevents boll weevils and cotton worms from attacking cotton plants by making them distasteful to the insects through the application of a mixture of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of soda, sulfate of copper, and crushed decorticated cotton seed.
Date: August 23, 1910
Creator: White, Reuben G.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for a plow that can be easily and inexpensively adjusted to plow shallower or deeper.
Date: August 12, 1919
Creator: Kilpatrick, Robert L.
System: The Portal to Texas History