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escape or pass over obstructions that may be 

 in their path, substantially as herein shown and 

 described. 



2. The employment of two adjustable plow 

 shares or scrapers, capable of scraping or culti- 

 vating both sides of the rows of cotton or other 

 plants by once passing over the ground, when 

 arranged and constructed substantially as set 

 forth. 



29,127. JOSEPH HINMAN, Water- 

 town, Mass., and D. S. FRENCH, Mar- 

 ietta, Ga., assignors to themselves and Nath- 

 an King, Middlesex, Mass. Cotton Culti- 

 vators. July 10, i860. 



This invention consists in the use of a series 

 of runners or plates provided with cutters, or 

 shares, and attached to a suitable framing a 

 requisite distance apart, and in such away that 

 a certain degree of vertical adjustment will be 

 allowed them, and the plants thinned out by 

 the cutters by drawing the implement trans- 

 versely over the drills in which the plants are 

 growing. 



Claim. 1. The employment or use of a series 

 of plates B, provided with cutters C, and at- 

 tached to a frame A, substantially as shown, 

 for the purpose set forth. 



2. Attaching the cutters C to the plates B, 

 by means of tangs h, secured by set screws in 

 semi-circular bars g, on the plates directly over 

 slots /therein, as and for the purpose speci- 

 fied. 



29,166. JACOB A. HARTSFIELD, 



Kinston, N. C. Cotton Cultivators. July 



17, i860. 



Claim. The arrangement of A, the main 

 frame ; A 1 and A 2 , the cross bars ; E and E 1 , 

 the scrapers ; G, the gear wheels; C, the shaft; 

 D, the chopper ; F, the guide pole ; H, the 

 handles; B and B 1 , the vertical posts; c and c x , 

 the slots; d 1 , the slot in revolving shaft; a 1 , the 

 pinion gear wheel; and F 1 , the hounds; the 

 whole being constructed and combined as de- 

 scribed, for the purposes set forth. 



29,413. JESSE SPERR, Hazlehurst, 

 Miss. Cotton Cultivators. July 31, 1880. 



The object of this machine is in the cultiva- 

 tion of cotton and other things that are plant- 

 ed in rows, in that manner known as " drill- 

 ing," and when the plant is small, from its 

 uses, the rows can be divided and made into 

 hills, leaving the plants to grow in uniformly 

 separated bunches or hills. 



Claim. The combination of the wheel a, 

 hoe h, and bar I, arranged and operated as or 

 substantially as and for the purpose set forth. 



29,507. JAMES L. MIDDLE- 

 BROOKS, Salem, Ga. Cotton Cultiva- 

 tors. Aug. 7, i860. 



In the operation of this machine the cutters 

 prepare the ground for the plows d d, which 

 follow to turn and loosen the earth; after these 



come the revolving hoes, which thoroughly 

 chop the weeds from between the rows of cot- 

 ton; the plows //, following in the rear, leave 

 a furrow on each side for drainage. 



Claim. The revolving hoes a a, secured 

 upon the shaft b, and operated as shown, in 

 combination with cutters c c, and plows d d 

 and ff; the whole being constructed and ar- 

 ranged substantially as and for the purpose set 

 forth. 



29,877. W. W. GOLSAN, Autaugaville, 

 Ala. Cotton Cultivators. Sep. 4, i860. 



A rectangular frame, composed of the par- 

 allel longitudinal beams B B, and the trans- 

 verse end beams C D, forms the main portion 

 of the framework of this implement. The ends 

 of the hindmost transverse beam D of said 

 frame project a short distance beyond the side 

 beams B B thereof, and those ends are securely 

 combined with the central portion of the up- 

 rights F F. 



Claim. The arrangement of the cultivator 

 point L, and the central driving-wheel A, with 

 the crank shafts a a, the laterally acting hose 

 h h, and the uprights F F, substantially in the 

 manner and for the purpose set forth. 



30,163. J. C. SELLERS, Woodville, 

 Miss. Cotton Cultivators. Sep. 25, i860. 



This invention consists in the arrangement 

 of a reciprocating hoe frame and cam grooves, 

 in combination with an independent revolving 

 shaft, plow shares, and coverers of a cotton 

 thinning plow. 



Claim. The arrangement of a recipro- 

 cating spring hoe frame N N G, and cam 

 grooves L H, in combination with an inde- 

 pendent revolving shaft E, and with the plow 

 shares V V, and coverers U U, of the cotton 

 thinning plow, substantially as and for the 

 purpose set forth. 



30,721. I. W. COLLINS and R. Y. 

 WILKINSON, Clinton, La. Cotton 

 Scrapers. Nov. 27, i860. 



Claim. 1. The arrangement of the hoe 

 wheel E and shaft D with the yielding bar F 

 and spring K, for the purpose of automatically 

 raising the hoe wheel after it has been depress- 

 ed by the operator, substantially in the manner 

 described. 



2. In combination with a spring or yielding 

 rotary hoe wheel for thinning cotton,* the ad- 

 justable and non-yielding mold plows secured 

 to the rear supports of the machine, for the 

 purpose of thinning and molding cotton at 

 one operation, substantially in the manner de- 

 scribed. 



31,122. J. D. HOUSTON, Pope's Depot, 

 Miss. Cotton Scrapers. Jan. 15, 1861. 



This invention consists in combining in one 

 frame two rotary hoes and a double scraper, or 

 two scraping wings of a peculiar construction, 

 in such a manner, and in operating them in 



