Glenster & Cowman are correct. Wide front axles didn't have enough clearance to cultivate taller corn without breaking off the stalks. This was back in the day of planting on beds instead of flat planting not to mention notill & RR seeds. When I was a youngster my Dad took me out of school to cult beds in front of the other tractor that was equipped with a 2 row frt mounted planter. Then later after corn and cotton was up the crops were cultivated 2-3 times to control weeds & grass plus my days of walking up/down rows with a HOE. My Dad also thought corn must be cultivated to stimulate growth & production.
Plus my Dad bedded and re-bedded several time before planting. Re-bedding required the 2 frt narrow wheels to be reversed so frt tires would straddle the top of a bed. This was attempted with wide frt axles with little success because 3 rows must be straddled for rebedding instead of 2.
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Today's Featured Article - Grain Threshing in the Early 40's - by Jerry D. Coleman. How many of you can sit there and say that you have plowed with a mule? Well I would say not many, but maybe a few. This story is about the day my Grandfather Brown (true name) decided along with my parents to purchase a new Ford tractor. It wasn't really new except to us. The year was about 1967 and my father found a good used Ford 601 tractor to use on the farm instead of "Bob", our old mule. Now my grandfather had had this mule since the mid 40's and he was getting some age on him. S
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