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Improvement in Cotton-Choppers (open access)

Improvement in Cotton-Choppers

Patent for improvement for cotton-choppers. Includes specifications and illustrations.
Date: October 28, 1879
Creator: Sauls, William W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants. (open access)

Improvement in Processes for Destroying Ants.

Patent for a method of destroying ants by digging a pit beside a colony, filling the hole with combustible materials and poisons, placing a pipe through the hole and into the mound, and then setting the pit ablaze.
Date: October 28, 1873
Creator: Dulany, John J. & Dreyer, Henry
System: The Portal to Texas History