55 years ago

It has been figured that it takes 48 minutes to plow an acre using a tractor, compared to 2.6 hours required when horses are used.

Mount Comfort High School’s poultry and egg judging team won first place in the annual 4-H and FFA competition in Hancock County. Winning team members were Joyce Jarrett, Ronald Sparks and Barbra Borgman, Ora Callahan is the team coach. Greenfield team placed second. (Note: Ora is one of Farm World’s recent former correspondents.)

Real estate for sale: 181 acres, with buildings, $36,000, Blackford County; and 142 acres with buildings and house, $25,000, Blackford County – J.W. Wickersham, Realtor, Muncie, Ind.

Indiana Certified Hybrid C870 placed first in more county yields than any other number of corn seeds in 1955. See Willard Pickering & Son, Lewisville for your Indiana Certified Corn needs.

40 years ago

Funk Bros. Seed Co, held its annual banquet honoring the following for outstanding yields. Certificates and trophies were presented to Paul Sparks, 165.3 bushels per acre; Charles Mellee, 166.9; Phillip Groves, 168.6; and Robert Dickey, 179. French Hamilton received the highest yield award, with 208.2 bushels per acre. He received a plaque plus a portable color television.
New Butler Metal Buildings for sale, Greenfield, Ind. – tool and machine shop, 30-by-36-feet, walk-in door, 18-feet-by-11-feet-6-inches, DS Door, $2,440.
Triton Central FFA Chapter had students who recently placed in the District Contest held at Franklin High School. Those from Triton Central FFA were Rod Lawrence, first place in the Impromptu Speaking completion, and John Abston, placing third in the Sales Demonstration contest.

The First National Bank of Mays, Ind., is “Big Enough to Serve You, but Small Enough to Know You.” It offers 5.5 percent on certificates of deposit, 4.5 percent on passbook savings and 5.75 percent on 24-month certificates of deposit.

25 years ago

Spring Specials: JD235 20-foot disc, $8,879; JD 722 mulch finisher, 19-foot, $9.840; JD 2700 4-bottom plow, $5,859 – Farmers Tractor & Impl. Co, Rushville, Ind.

Jan Williams of Knightstown has been elected to serve as secretary of the National Pork Council Women for the coming year. She and her husband, Bill, run a 300-sow farrow-to-finish operation and market 5,500 head of hogs annually.

The Clinton Central FFA Livestock Judging Team won the Tri-High Invitational Livestock Judging Contest recently. The team was comprised of Todd Caldwell, Susan Shoup, Brent McKinney and Joe Rule.

Wholesale gasoline prices dropped 11.1 percent last month. Home heating oil costs declined sharply, by 26.2 percent.

10 years ago

Used farm equipment for sale: GP 15-foot no-till drill, $17,500; JD 1780 planter, 12-by-23-foot no-till, $45,000; Blu-Jet 7SH subtiller, $16,500; Wil-Rich 6600V disc ripper, 4SH subsoiler, $9,500 – Apple Farm Service, Inc. in Covington, Ohio.
Nash Pig Sale – selling 150 top show prospects of Hampshire-Yorkshire-Duroc-Landrace-Crossbreds April 3, 2001, 7 p.m., Tipton, Ind., 4-H Fairgrounds. Wm. G. Nash & Sons, Sharpsville, Ind.

Canada is Ohio’s leading foreign export market. Ohio sold Canada $14.4 billion worth of goods, while Canada exported $8.69 billion worth to the state.
Foot-and-mouth disease has been diagnosed in 34 countries during the past 18 months. The only continents currently free of the disease are North America, Australia and Antarctica.