Usually it is not worth dealing with liquid fertilizer for the small acreages that a 2-row planter works best for. This, in my opinion, makes a dry fertilizer-equipped 246 better than a 71 for foodplots, sweetcorn patches and such. A 71 will give you better seed placement, depth control etc, but you can do ok in those areas with a 246. A 71 would certainly be considerably better than the 246 in that picture however because that one dont have working fertilizer attachments. It probably would not be very difficult to locate the required parts to get starter fertilizer down with that 246. It looks like it is just missing the spinner and bucket on one side, but the base in addition to those parts on the other. The lower assemblies with disk wheels (different on 246's and 290's) look like they are both there. All the parts you are missing are shared with the 290/490 pull-type models and you may be able to locate them. FWJ, did you use your restored, older MF planter with dry fert attachment this year, or did you use the 71 with liquid? How did it work? My corn came up a lot better this year since I replaced the shoes on my 246. Because of that, tons of rain this year, and higher fert application due to cheaper prices this spring, my corn yield looks like it will be about the highest I have ever had on my farm since going semi-organic. It will probably go 125 bu/acre or so which aint too bad for 36" rows, cultivated and useing no herbicides. I have (13) acres of fieldcorn (to kill deer in and around) and (2) of sweetcorn this year.