Ken: Discs weren't used much with rocks because (a) they would get smashed to pieces (b) the old discs were fairly light and wouldn't make much of an impression,bush discs(extra heavy) were expensive and not many people had enough power to handle them.
The old Massey seed drills were about the best you could get and in their time, Canada had trade policies that favoured Massey, Cockshutt and IH equipment. John Deere and others, unless they were built here were beaucoup expensive. They usually had metal spiral tubes to feed from the seed box to the discs on the ground to control wind deflection. They were also the first things to deteriorate on those drills and a lot of people just let it fall and harrowed afterward with a spike tooth (diamond) to cover the seed.
Number three is a grain binder for the days of threshing with a stationary thresher. Here again it would have likely been a George White #6, Dion or Forano thresher. The sheaves were picked up by hand, put into stooks of 10 sheaves, left to dry for a week or 10 days, then either threshed in the field or the sheaves hauled to the barn and threshed with the thresher in the barn or put in the barn and left until the neighbourhood threshing machine came around, (MAJOR mouse and rat damage). BTW, grain is in stooks, corn is in shocks.
By the time most people got themselves into little pull-type combines, the custom guys who had run the neighbourhood threshing machine had moved on to bigger self-propelled combines and they were quick compared to the little combines. Same argument goes on today, wait for the big custom guy and sweat over the weather or get a smaller, older machine for yourself and go at it, slowly.
Not that many people used fertilizer when they still had a big manure pile. A lot of guys now just got the local Co-op and get them to spread fertilizer rather than handle it themselves.
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