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Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter. (open access)

Cotton Stalk and Weed Cutter.

Patent for a new and improved cotton stalk and weed cutter. This design calls for "[a]n interchangeable cotton-stalk cutter and sulky plow . . . adapted to receive a plow at its rear end" (lines 67-70). The cutting blades can be raised and lowered as needed.
Date: March 21, 1882
Creator: Vannoy, James Harvey
System: The Portal to Texas History