In general, diesels like to be warm to start. A freeze plug heater, lower radiator heater or even a magnet heater on the oil pan will greatly help. They are in order of effectiveness and opposite order of installation ease.
Unlike gasoline engines, diesels are fired by the heat of compression only. The cold cylinders, pistons, head and air suck the heat up making starting harder. The tractor being 40 years old means it probably is down a bit on compression too, making it harder to start. And the starter may not be spinning as fast as needed with the weaker cold battery and thicker oil. Getting a new battery of the largest size that will physically fit may also solve many of the issues.
A caution is to not use ether. Ether can easily be misused and blow out piston ring lands. I have a piston that is a pencil holder now with 2 broken ring lands due to the prior owner going ether happy in the winter. (Idiot). At 8500 hours the cylinder bores were still in spec, except for the gouges from the broken ring lands! grrrr.
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