I don't know what my folks first tractor was, but I know they had a "B" Allis Chalmers at one time. I was born in 1950, and they bought a new "C" Allis and had it delivered to the farm the same week I was born. I used it to cultivate tobacco when I farmed, and it was still running and working in 1996 when it was burned up in a fire that also burned up my 2 other tractors.
I also remember my grandfather and his mules, Jack and Jim. He believed that mules were the best for working out the garden, and for plowing out tobacco. The last time I remember seeing any farmer around here use mules to farm with was in the 1960's, and then it was only to plow out tobacco. They could plow closer to the plant with a mule drawn cultivator as opposed to a tractor.
