55 years ago
Members and families of the Hoosier Hampshire Breeders Assoc. held their annual picnic at the Willard and George Pickering farm east of Lewisville, Ind. Raleigh Pemberton, national breed secretary, spoke at the meeting. State officers are Bill Johnson, president, of Merom; Don Gray of Mays, vice president; and Tom Denhart of Lebanon, secretary.

For sale: 1955 Ford V8, 1-ton pickup truck, deluxe cab, one owner, $1,345; 1954 Chevrolet half-ton pickup truck, hydromantic trans, radio, fresh air heater, $595 – Morris Chevrolet, New Castle, Ind.

The Wayne County 4-H Garden Tour will make stops at the Homer Scott home west of Jacksonburg, Onie Cain farm east of Hagerstown and the John Bond farm west of Greensfork. John Scott, David Cain and David Ray Bond will discuss their projects at each stop.

David Ross was installed as president of the Morristown FFA chapter recently. Others to take office were Jerry Bass, vice president; Max Gosnell, secretary; Marlin Everhart, treasurer; Vernon Goode, reporter; and Richard Logan, sentinel.

40 years ago
President Richard M. Nixon and Secretary of Agriculture Clifford Hardin visited Indiana recently. The schedule included briefings and aerial watch on the corn blight areas in Indiana, dedication ceremonies in Jennings County honoring the president’s late mother’s birthplace and a retirement dinner honoring old friend Dr. Frederick L. Hovde, retiring president of Purdue University.

A dairy barn owned by Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Kolb of R. 9, Indianapolis, was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Lost in the blaze were feed, hay, dairy equipment, a truck and tractor.

Portable farm buildings for sale: Hayracks, 4-by12-foot $95; 4-by-16-foot, $125;  4-by-12-foot with roof, $150; 16-foot, $185; Feed Bunks, 4-by-12-foot, 8-inch sides, $60 and 12-inch sides, $65; 4-by-16-foot, 8-inch sides, $75 and 12-inch sides, $80: all at Napoleon Lumber Co. in Napoleon, Ind.
Sixty laying hens at 50 cents each; two range buildings, $25 each – Leonard Reeder of Parker, Ind.

25 years ago

Indiana State FFA concludes its annual convention at Purdue University. 1986-87 state FFA officers are: Belinda Jo Weaver, North Montgomery Chapter, northern region vice president; Scott Stump, Prairie Heights Chapter, president; Karl Weiss, Hagerstown Chapter, southern region vice president; Michael Burton, Shenandoah Chapter, secretary; Millie Corbin, Jennings County Chapter, treasurer; Donna Berry, South Putnam Chapter, state reporter and Michele Lasley, Hamilton Heights Chapter, state sentinel.

Kent Leichty, South Adams chapter in Berne, was named the State Star Farmer and Tom Crowe, North Decatur chapter at Greensburg, was named State Star Agribusinessman at the recent State FFA Convention.

Newly elected Indiana State Extension Homemakers Assoc. offerings for 1986-87 are: Connie Williams, Valparaiso, president; Janet Lippold, Peru, vice president; Nancy Jo Prue, Kentland, treasurer; and Joann Ford, Redkey, secretary.

Carroll and Clinton counties continue to lead the state of Indiana in number of hogs and pigs. Elkhart is the top county in cattle and calves, in milk cows and in milk production. Dubois leads the way in hens and pullets of laying age.

10 years ago

Hot, sunny days and some shots of rain have helped improve crop conditions across Kentucky, a crop reporting service said. Fifty-six percent of the corn crop was rated in good condition and 28 percent was rated excellent. Sixty-one percent of the soybean crop is in good condition as well. Most of the other soybean crop was in either fair or excellent shape.

Lyle Hoffmaster of Bucyrus, Ohio, attends several steam engine shows throughout the Midwest, taking his Reeves Steam Engines with him, accompanied by his daughter and son-in-law, Anne and Don Atzinger of Bargersville, Ind., and their children, Joy and Carl. The Reeves Steam Engine was manufactured in Columbus, Ind.

Pastures to Prairie is an Ohio Department of Natural Resources program designed to help landowners improve grassland habitats.

The Agricultural Development Board, created to oversee distribution of half of Kentucky’s share of the national tobacco settlement, approved 32 projects for $4.1 million in funding earlier this month.