Poison - Distributer (open access)

Poison - Distributer

Patent for a new and improved poison-distributer. This design is to "provide a machine for distributing poison or a fertilizer to the plants at each side of the furrow through which the machine may be drawn" (line 7 - 9).
Date: February 8, 1898
Creator: Richter, Frank L.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-331 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: V-331

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Price Daniel, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: The authority of the Comptroller of Public Accounts to direct the Tax Collector of Lavaca County to pay a portion of the State's General Revenue taxes to the Lavaca County Flood Control District in accordance with H.B. 361, 47th Legislature.
Date: August 8, 1947
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Plow. (open access)

Plow.

Patent for improvements in plows that will break and bed the soil at a single operation while it was customary for a plow to have to go over the soil at least twice in order to break the soil. This invention is also meant to conserve time and labor and cultivate the soil more thoroughly.
Date: June 8, 1920
Creator: Wendtland, William Sr.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History