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mark
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Date Posted: 12:18:54 12/07/13 Sat
It amazes me at the depth & variety of readers who show up on the forum. I cannot tell you a thing about farm equipment but I enjoy reading this discussion.
Thanks for providing an avenue for these meetings.
>>I think this drill is set up to plant wheat or similar
>>seed in the large hopper and small seed such as
>>alfalfa or mustard from the small hopper. Where I am
>>from [Indiana] we plant oats or wheat as a nurse crop
>>for alfalfa and would use both hoppers to plant the
>>field. I never used a drill this old but the ones in
>>my generation were little different with the 2
>hoppers.
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>You're right, that's exactly what they were designed
>for, but my older brother happened to notice that the
>small hopper was just perfect size to use as a
>spreader for the 'brand-new' chemical fertilizer that
>had just come on the market. It worked too, but come
>to think about it, we only used it for that a time or
>two - you see my Dad died in 1952 and we had just
>bought a 44 Massey-Harris tractor, built a new house
>and bought a quarter section of land, so we had to cut
>back on the 'frills' for a few years. We simply didn't
>have the extra money to buy fertilizer and by the time
>we did, we had a much newer seed drill which we got at
>a neighbour's auction sale.
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>kp
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