Ready to go, Border Collie puppies – Leo Keisling, Mays, Ind.

The New Salem Lions Club, boys of the high school and neighbors picked the corn of Harry Vogel in Rush County. There were 52 men with 14 pickers, 26 wagons, three elevators, tractors and trucks to pick the 42 acres. Methodist women furnished the lunch. The same afternoon, the group moved to the Arthur Wilkinson farm and harvested 14 acres of corn, then to John Wilkinson’s farm, picking his 10 acres.

Due to the fire that destroyed my barn and feed, I am forced to sell my cattle and sheep listed below with some other livestock at the Middletown Sale Barn – Jona Williams. Sale will consist of 50 purebred Angus cattle, 32 Corriedale sheep, hogs, feeder calves and one saddle horse.

Preble County, Ohio, Dog Warden Bill Campbell reports a pack of wild dogs that included two adult dogs and five pups have killed an estimated $20,000 worth of sheep recently. Twenty-seven head of registered sheep valued at up to $750 each were slain on the Leonard Beard farm north of Eaton.

Paul Lawrence of rural Greenfield, a farmer in the Sugar Creek Township area for the past 30 years, found a rarity while harvesting soybeans this fall. A soybean plant with 342 ponds, each pod containing four beans each, was found on the Ida Bell Trebly farm, which Lawrence also share-crops. An average soybean plant contains approximately 50-75 pods.

Jane Hardisty, of Greenfield rural route, became the state’s first female Soil Conservationist when she accepted a position with the Soil Conservation Service at the Delphi field office in Carroll County.

Used combines for sale: 1980 JD 7720, 2,300 hours, $29,500; 1981 JD 7720, 2,400 hours, $28,500; 1976 JD 6600, 2,500 hours, $12,900; 1984 JD 7720, 1,700 hours, $43,500; 1983 MF 860, 1,936 hours, with 16-foot platform, $25,500 – Smith Implements, Greenfield, Ind.

Scott Crouch, a 20-year-old from Cicero, Ind., was elected national FFA secretary at this year’s National FFA Convention in Kansas City, Mo. He is the son of Robert E. Crouch and Cheryl Ann Walsh and is a member of the Tipton FFA Chapter. His local advisors are Guy Kirby, Hank Carson and George Price. He will take a year’s leave of absence from Purdue University, where he is carrying a dual major in agricultural education and community development.

Farmers are advised to cease feeding corn screenings. Adult swine and horses in seven states have died from problems associated with being fed screenings from newly harvested corn infected with the fungus Fusarium moniliforme. Mycotoxins – toxic substances produced by fungi – are suspected as the cause, said Don Scott, Purdue plant pathologist.

Farmers in southern Illinois have been harvesting high corn yields this fall, perhaps the highest yields they have ever observed. Corn yield samples are averaging 190-210 bushels per acre, according to Scott Shepherd, a Pioneer sales representative who has been calculating test plot yields in two southeastern Illinois counties, Edwards and Wabash.

Used trucks for sale: 1996 Chevy K2500 re cab 4x4, Silverado, 350 Vortex, auto, PW/PL, CC/TW, gooseneck hitch, locking diff., trailering package, $8,995; 2000 Chevy K2500 extended cab 4x4, LT package, 4th door, 6.0 liter, auto, full power, heated leather, locking diff., trailering package, $18,995; 2002 Chevy K2500HD crew cab long bed 4x4, LS package, 6.6 Duramax, Allison auto, full power, locking diff., trailering package, 27,000 miles, $31,495 – Mann Chevrolet-Buick, Flora, Ind.