Tractor History by A.C. Seyfarth -- 1910-1934

              allotted to the Nebraska territoriy.  About 100,000 acres of cotton had been checked in rows with a four-row corn planter near Greenville, Mississippi, and the reports on the crop were favorable. The cotton seed had been delinted, which explains why it could be planted with a corn planter. A letter from M.F. Holahan to F.Y. Timmons September 16, 1925, refers to the sale of the Farmall in the south and southwest and informs Mr. Timmons that little effort was to be expended on the sale of Farmalls in the Central District and that under no circumstances was the sale of Farmalls to interfere with the sale of 10-20's. Mr. Holahan's letter indicated that he had been instructed from higher up in this matter.

On December 14, 1925, Mr. Legge wrote the San Francisco branch saying that since the allotment of Farmalls had been made it had been decided to go ahead on a more liberal scale. (This was probably the reason for the 1,000 increase in the manufacturing order mentioned above.) The letter indicates that it was Mr. Legge's intention that the sales of the Farmall should be confined as much as possible to those territories where the 10-20 and 15-30 could not be sold. the reason for this policy was the fact that we had an enormous investment in equipment for building the 10-20 and 15-30 tractors, and he was afraid that the growing enthusiasm for the Farmall might cause the selling organization to let down their efforts on the other tractors. On August 5, 1925, B.R. Benjamin and Clemma R. Raney applied for patent on that feature of Farmall construction which we now designate as triple control. In this construction, steering the tractor, shifting the gang for an additional amount of dodge, and braking either year wheel for a short pivot turn were under the contorl of the steering wheel. This is the construction now embodied in our 201-A and 407-A cultivators. According to a tractor works booklet, 870- Farmalls were made and sold in 1925. It should be remembered that up until this time the Farmall had not been nationally advertised.

1925 Photographs The 1925 photographic file shows a hitch for pulling three ridge buster units, an amplification of the control mechanism of the middle buster, and proposed planting attachment for the middle buster in which the seeding mechansim was to be driven bya  spurred ground wheel operating pitmans. This construction was proposed by A.C. Lindgren. The device was never placed in manufacture. There is a hitch for pulling a No. 20 cotton and corn planter with a lever extension to enable the Farmall operator to raise and lower the planter from the tractor seat. The first attempt to hitch two two-row cotton planters in a four-row unit is shown in prints Nos.193 and 194. Print no. 195 shows the Farmall mower. Print no. 196 is the first photograph we have of a farmall four-row cultivator. Note that the date on this photograph is June 15, 1925. This is the culti-