sillsens SEED PLANTER. by manufacturing and selling the planters he realized a net profit of some hired without his consent the royalty upon which at the rates which he employed and proper precautions had been taken against infringers the patentee would doubtless have been able to realize a profit of from be the harvest time of the manufacturers of agricultural implements. As stal muted into farmers. portant therefore to inquire how these seven years were spent. Since the patent was never sold b st has beenfrom first to last in tne hands of the his patent was not lost through any fault or


sillsens SEED PLANTER. by manufacturing and selling the planters he realized a net profit of some hired without his consent the royalty upon which at the rates which he employed and proper precautions had been taken against infringers the patentee would doubtless have been able to realize a profit of from be the harvest time of the manufacturers of agricultural implements. As stal muted into farmers. portant therefore to inquire how these seven years were spent. Since the patent was never sold b st has beenfrom first to last in tne hands of the his patent was not lost through any fault or neglect of his. planters 100; in 1857 800; in 1858 1500; in 1859 2000. Here was a rapid in crease of sales and every indication of a growing and prosperous busi to go into milling in N ow Mexico. This he did leasing his patent to a firm in Palmyra for one year. Upon the breaking out of the war he returned to the States to make some purchases for his mines. Ho appears to have made no inquiry after his lesees or their business ; but shortly afterward under pretense of a de went by way of St. Louis Louisville and Nashville to Memphis Tenn. where he was engaged 'most' of his time ' in making altering and re pairing patterns of different kinds such as cotton presses machinery ord na .ce stores cannon castings' etc. understanding that he was by virtue of his employment exempt from conscription. About six months before the taking of Jackson by the United States forces applicant went to Montgomery Ala. His principal reason for leav gaged in manufacturing machinery on his owi account and by his machin ery making castor and peanut oil. Subsequently he manufactured artificial limbs. After the war there being no more danger of getting hurt he re turned to Jackson where he remained until 1867 when lie came North and In 1868 and 1869 again made and sold his planter. Once and once only during the war lie attempted to leave the South. He walked up the railroad how farhe does not say when. finding


Size: 3308px × 4722px
Location:
Photo credit: © Corantos / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 100, 800, 1500, 1857, 1858, 1859, 2000, agricultural, beenfrom, busi, consent, crease, doubtless, employed, farmers, fault, growing, hands, harvest, hired, implements, indication, infringers, inquire, leasing, lost, manufacturers, manufacturing, mexico, milling, muted, neglect, net, ow, patent, patentee, planter, planters, portant, precautions, profit, proper, prosperous, rapid, rates, realize, realized, royalty, sales, seed, selling, sillsens, sold, spent, st, stal, time, tne, years