Nine hundred Heavy breed 20-week-old pullets; 500 New Hampshire Reds yearling hens – Mooreland, Ind.

Will talk to a prospective tenant for a 210-acre farm; must be sober and honest – D.W. Grossman, Realtor, Knightstown, Ind.

New television farm show hosted by Harry Martin will feature “Today in Indiana” live on channel 6 WFMB Indianapolis, from 6:30-7 a.m. Monday-Friday, brought to you by your Purina Dealer.

1974

An unusual occurrence took place at the Joe Hodson farm west of Mays, Ind., when a registered Duroc sow gave birth to her second litter within four weeks.

The Duroc, which farrowed in a crate, first had a litter of nine, seven of which survived and four weeks later, she had a litter of 14, with nine living, for a total of 16 thriving offspring. The breeding was done by hand and was strictly accounted for, according to a mystified Hodson.

Dora Mega, a 17-year-old Holstein, was the guest of honor when more than 300 people attended a party at Jim Beane’s dairy farm near Godfrey, Ill., recently. The cow has produced more than 300,000 pounds, or 35,000 gallons, of milk since 1960. The average dairy cow produces about 15,000 pounds of milk a year.

An ova transfer experiment was con-ducted at an Ohio ranch. Normally a cow gives birth to a single calf; twins are a rarity and triplets, hardly ever. But on the Schearbrook Ranch near Dayton, Ohio, eight three-quarters Chianina are romping around and all eight have the “same” mother. The mother, a 30-month-old half-blood Chianina, is daughter of the famous Diaceto, who was bred to another full-blood Chianina bull artificially when she was 20 months old.

1989

More than 80 percent of all Kentucky farms sell less than $40,000 worth of products each year. Yet, most of them have little debt, according to an economist with the University Of Kentucky College of Agriculture. Some 63 percent of Kentucky’s small farms have no debt whatsoever and the study found that most of the small-scale farming was in the central and northern parts of the state, with nearly 70 percent of them located there.

Pigs, not politics, was the hot topic when Soviet politician Boris Yeltsin visited the John Hardin pig farm in Hendricks County, Ind.

Rye seed for cover crop, $4.50 a bushel over 100 bushels, $4 in bulk – Franklin.

2004

First-cutting mixed grass hay, 60# average, small square, $1.75-$2.50 a bale and 1200# 5-by-6-foot round bales, $20; first-cutting mixed alfalfa hay, small square, $2.50 a bale. Will deliver – Oxford, Ohio.

Antique tractors for sale: 8N Ford, rebuilt engine, 4 new tires and rear rims, extra good, $3,000; 1951 TO30 Ferguson, $2,850; 1943 9N Ford, good solid tractor, $1,800; 1958 IHC Cub with front blade and mower deck, $2,100; 1948 (?) “B” Allis with Woods finish mower, $2,250 – Crawfordsville, Ind.

For the third time in seven years, Rex Schrader of Schrader Real Estate and Auction Co. of Columbia City, Ind., received the National Auctioneer of the Year Award and was named Grand Champion of the entire marketing competition during the National Auction Convention held this summer in Madison, Wis.