Machine for Assorting, Stacking, and Counting Coins (open access)

Machine for Assorting, Stacking, and Counting Coins

Patent for a machine which organizes, stacks, counts, and gives the total value of a collection of coins. Illustrations included.
Date: April 13, 1909
Creator: Brewster, Bertram Forrest
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Loco-Weed Disease (open access)

The Loco-Weed Disease

Report describing the poisonous plant locoweed, including its appearance and its effects on horses, cattle, and sheep.
Date: 1909
Creator: Marsh, C. Dwight (Charles Dwight)
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Extension of Public Building at Kansas City, Kans., Report (open access)

Extension of Public Building at Kansas City, Kans., Report

Report of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds detailing the opinions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed Senate bill 3159 to authorize the extension, enlargement, and alteration of the public building in the city of Kansas City, Kansas. It includes a report of the Secretary of the Treasury on the proposed legislation, in addition to a copy of a letter from the supervising superintendent of construction in Kansas City.
Date: 1908~
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forage Crops for Hogs in Kansas and Oklahoma (open access)

Forage Crops for Hogs in Kansas and Oklahoma

Report discussing forage crops commonly grown for hog feed in Kansas and Oklahoma. Among the more important crops are alfalfa, wheat, oats, and rye, while less important forage crops include clovers, rape, sorghum, cowpeas, Canadian field peas, soy beans, grasses, root crops, and pumpkins. There is also a brief discussion of systems of hog feeding and pasturing, particularly in Oklahoma.
Date: 1908
Creator: Quinn, C. E.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increasing Limit of Cost of Public Building at Wichita, Kans., Report (open access)

Increasing Limit of Cost of Public Building at Wichita, Kans., Report

Report of the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds detailing the opinions and recommendations of the Committee on the proposed Senate bill 5894 to provide for the completion of the enlargement of the Government building in Wichita, Kansas.
Date: 1908~
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economic Geology of the Independence Quadrangle, Kansas (open access)

Economic Geology of the Independence Quadrangle, Kansas

From introduction: The aim of this paper is to present the substance of what is known concerning the distribution, occurrence, and development of the oil and gas of the quadrangle, and to note briefly the more important industries growing out of these natural resources or depending on them within the territory considered.
Date: 1906
Creator: Schrader, Frank C. & Haworth, Erasmus
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Cream Separator on Western Farms (open access)

The Cream Separator on Western Farms

Report discussing the use of the cream separator on farms in Kansas and Nebraska, which have substantial dairy industries but are not typically considered dairy-producing states. Advantages of the cream separator, its care and management, milk and cream production on the farm, and delivery of cream to markets are discussed.
Date: 1904
Creator: Webster, Ed. H. (Edwin Harrison), 1871-1928 & Gray, C. E. (Charles Earl), 1881-1944
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Upper Carboniferous Rocks of the Kansas Section (open access)

Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Upper Carboniferous Rocks of the Kansas Section

From introduction: This report presents the results of reconnaissances on the coal formations of the area of Kansas south of the Kansas River.
Date: 1903
Creator: Adams, George I.; Girty, George Herbert & White, David
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sash-Fastener. (open access)

Sash-Fastener.

Patent for new and improved sash-fastener so as to "lock the sash when elevated as well as closed" (line 15 & 16), including illustrations.
Date: May 6, 1902
Creator: Neher, John F. & Neher, Noah N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sheeps, Hogs, and Horses in the Pacific Northwest (open access)

Sheeps, Hogs, and Horses in the Pacific Northwest

This bulletin gives a broad overview of the livestock industry in the Pacific Northwest with respect to sheep and hogs; there is also a brief discussion of the horse industry. I. Sheep Husbandry. II. Hog Raising. III. The Horse Industry.
Date: 1900
Creator: French, Hiram T. (Hiram Taylor), b. 1861; Nelson, S. B. (Sofus Bertelsen), 1867-1931 & Withcombe, James
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library