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Device for Marking Live Stock. (open access)

Device for Marking Live Stock.

Patent for improvement in devices for marking livestock by using steel blades either to cut or heated to burn the surface of livestock’s skin. (Lines 71-73) There is no mistaking the marks of one owner from those of another. (Lines 85-86) Illustration is included.
Date: October 27, 1891
Creator: Conine, Frederick B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sulky-Frame for Agricultural Implements. (open access)

Sulky-Frame for Agricultural Implements.

Patent for "a new and improved sulky-frame adapted for the attachment of several agricultural implements and provided with means for elevating or lowering the frame and the implement thereto attached, whereby the latter is brought in contact with the soil or elevated above such contact." (Lines 16-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: August 27, 1895
Creator: Carson, John Richard & Denman, Jackson Harvey, Jr.
System: The Portal to Texas History