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40 years ago: Centerville Feed & Grain under new ownership
 

1964: 50 years ago

Indiana residents watched hopefully for rain, while cornfields burned, thousands of acres of woods in southern Indiana went up in smoke and farm buildings ignited with fire of unexplained origin, except the drought.
Real estate for sale: I have 170 acres, first farm west of Greensboro, north side of road, price $36,000 easy terms – Alva O’Rear, Indianapolis, Ind.
Sales grossed $23,912.81 at the Southeastern Indiana Feeder Auction Assoc. feeder pig auction at Osgood. The average price per cwt. was $19.47 and the average price per pig, $23.43.
1974: 40 years ago

Feeder cattle at the recent feeder calf sale at the Producers Marketing Assoc. Stockyards, Centerville, brought from $18-$33.25 per cwt. One consignment of 16 Angus steers weighing 625 pounds sold for $33 per cwt.
Twelve black white-faced steers weighing 512 pounds sold for $31, and 11 white-faced steers weighing 715 pound returned to the feedlot at $32.25 per cwt.
Rowland Lawton, who resides on the Roy Carson farm in the Kitchel area, reports he had 22 pigs, weighing approximately 65 pounds each, killed by dogs recently.
The Centerville Feed and Grain Elevator has new owners, Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Oldham, who have purchased the business from the estate of Loren Cates. Mr. Oldham has served as manager of the elevator for the past four years.
1989: 25 years ago

Once the standard means of transportation around rivers, ferryboats are seldom seen operating anymore.
There is still, however, the Darwin Ferry, which plies its way back and forth on the Wabash River between Illinois and Indiana. For the past year, it has only been used to haul farm equipment and harvested crops to and from the Indiana side, where a group of Illinois farmers hold land.
A new soybean called “kunitz” developed by Dr. Theodore Hymowitz, a University of Illinois plant geneticist who has spent 21 years on research, may be available soon for hog farmers to use as direct feed for hogs without being processed.
Lyles Station is a pocket of history in southwestern Indiana. According to historical accounts, it is the only town in the state to be named by black residents. It has more black farmers per capita than any other area in Indiana and is the last all-black settlement in the state.  It is located in Gibson County, five miles west of Princeton.
It was settled by freed slaves before the Civil War and named after Joshua Lyles, a freed slave himself. The tiny burg was once part of the Underground Railroad. Lyles brought agriculture to the area, owning more than 1,200 acres between 1859-74.
2004: 10 years ago
Used equipment: JD 4450, PS, SGB, $28,800; JD 8210 T, 2001, 615 hours, 16-inch tracks, $112,500; JD 637 dis., 32-foot, 2000 hyd., wing control, $19,995; Glencoe 11 shank disk chisel, $7,395; JD 1770, 1997, 16-30-inch, no-till, $34,900; JD 4x2 E-Gator, 2002, $5,500 – Hendren’s, Inc., Mooresville and Franklin, Ind.
Heimeri Farms, based out of Johnstown (Licking County) and with wine operations located across much of Ohio, was recently named one of four Environmental Stewards for 2004 by the National Pork Board.

Genesis Tillage, Inc., a company located in Hope, Ind., recently announced a plan to move to a new larger manufacturing facility on South Street in Hope in the near future, in order to increase its manufacturing capacity and streamline its manufacturing operations.
11/26/2014