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