McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors and ... - Antique Farming
McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors and ... - Antique Farming
McCormick-Deering Farmall Tractors and ... - Antique Farming
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A Favorite Potato<br />
Cultivator No. 203-A<br />
THE <strong>Farmall</strong> No. 203-A cultivator can be used<br />
in rows as narrow as 34 inches (28 inches for<br />
N-203-A), which accounts in part for its<br />
popularity with potato growers. It can also be<br />
used in st<strong>and</strong>ard corn rows up to 42 inches apart,<br />
so that the man who grows both corn <strong>and</strong> potatoes<br />
finds this cultivator well adapted to his requirements.<br />
To use this wide range of adjustment the<br />
regular F-20 with steel wheels should be equipped<br />
with adjustable overtires or the adjustable wheels<br />
should be used if the tractor is on rubber.<br />
Blued. 90. The No. 203-4 <strong>Farmall</strong> cultivator on the F-20<br />
tractor. It can be supplied also for the F-30 <strong>and</strong> for the<br />
narrow-tread <strong>Farmall</strong>s. The vine lifters are not a part of the<br />
cultivator hut available as tractor at tachments.<br />
Illust. 89. Cultivating potatoes with the Farman <strong>and</strong><br />
No. 203-A cultivator on the Bonnymeade Farm, Lubing<br />
County, Ohio.<br />
On this cultivator the front gangs are attached to a<br />
heavy pipe extending across the tractor just under the<br />
frame <strong>and</strong> just back of the front wheel. This makes very<br />
compact construction <strong>and</strong> an outfit that is easy to h<strong>and</strong>le<br />
in narrow rows <strong>and</strong> in small or odd-shaped fields.<br />
The No. 203-A is considered regular with two springtrips<br />
with shovels <strong>and</strong> double-spring teeth on each front<br />
pair of gangs <strong>and</strong> seven double-spring teeth on the rear<br />
for 34-inch rows <strong>and</strong> up. Other combinations are available<br />
to suit requirements. It can be supplied as a h<strong>and</strong>lift<br />
or as a power-lift cultivator.<br />
When this cultivator is used in potatoes it is the usual<br />
thing to equip the tractor with vine lifters, as shown in<br />
Illust. 90. While they cost a little extra, they protect<br />
the vines <strong>and</strong> are especially valuable in later cultivations.<br />
A Stout Cultivator for Tough Going, No. 210-G<br />
CORN <strong>and</strong> cotton growers who have to contend<br />
with hard or stubborn soil conditions<br />
like this No. 210-G cultivator. It is built<br />
to do a good job in hard ground, <strong>and</strong> st<strong>and</strong> up to<br />
it. The beams are heavy steel pipe, <strong>and</strong> adjustable<br />
pressure springs put the shovels down where<br />
you want them to go, while spring-trips in front<br />
<strong>and</strong> double-spring teeth in the rear prevent<br />
breaking the shovels or sweeps used. To take<br />
advantage of the full range of the cultivator as<br />
to row widths, steel-wheel tractors should be<br />
equipped with adjustable overtires, or rubbertired<br />
tractors with adjustable wheels.<br />
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Illust. 91. The <strong>Farmall</strong> No. 210-C two-row cultivator.<br />
Other shovel arrangements are possible. This<br />
cultivator is built for hard work.<br />
The No. 210-G is considered regular with six springtrips<br />
in front <strong>and</strong> seven double-spring teeth in the<br />
rear. Shovel equipment is optional. Equipment available<br />
includes rotary weeders, rotary shields, disk Millers,<br />
bean harvester attachment, moldboard hillers, etc.<br />
Illust. 92. This shows E. C. Clayborn,<br />
Knox City, Texas, cultivating a feed crop<br />
with the No. 203-A cultivator.<br />
age 22