Realistically, you'll probably always need to use a "puff" of ether to start it cold. Your tractor is 50+ years old, and those old ones weren't high enough compression to have much margin for wear until the compression got low enough that they wouldn't start on their own. Block heater would help. Key is not to use too much, and crank the engine without ether for about 5 revs before shooting a LITTLE ether into the intake as you continue to crank the engine.
You'll get a lot of doomsday posts about the evils of ether, but the fact is, if you don't use too much, and do it "on the fly" as described above, it really won't hurt it. I've been starting my Oliver diesel that way for 30 years, and it its going to wreck it, it better hurry, before I wear it out. It still starts as well now as it did 30 years ago.
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