Declines in pork prices have allowed stores to advertise center-cut pork chops at 59 cents a pound. Rib-end roasts are advertised at 29 cents a pound.

If the Suez Canal continues to be blocked, it will prevent shipments of wheat from Australia to Europe. Federal officials expect to increase wheat shipments to Europe and 30 extra cargo ships have been placed in service to haul wheat. Poland, too, asks for American wheat. All of these factors should lift exports.

Gov.-elect Harold Handley re-pledged to seek the establishment of a veterinary medicine school at Purdue. He plans on placing this as one of the major goals for the 1957 General Assembly.

Real estate for sale near Knightstown, Ind.: Approximately 60 acres tillable, $125 an acre from Joseph Kellum, Realtor, Shirley, Ind.

Dock strikes are costly to farmers; many elevators in the Eastern Indiana Farmer area are dumping corn on the ground due to the strike.

Several area men were injured recently in corn picker accidents. They were Orvil Miller, Portland; Gary Hirschy, Berne; Richard Fairchild, Pleasant Mills; and Edwin Whitcomb, Sheridan.

Paul Burge of Winchester recently dug a carrot in his garden that measured 14 inches long, 21-1/2 inches at its largest circumference and weighed 1.75 pounds.  Removal of the carrot from the ground proved to be a task.

Indiana corn crop is up 41 percent from last year’s blight-damaged crop, and the highest on record. Yield is reported to be 96 bushels per acre, average. Soybeans are reported at a 10 percent increase from last year, with an average of 34 bushels per acre.

Real estate for sale: 63 acres with 50 tillable on Laughry Creek, $44,000; 96 acres with good set older buildings, 37 tillable, priced reduced to $60,000 – M. Terry Woolum, Real Estate & Appraisal Service, Versailles, Ind.

Farmers in the Farmweek coverage area have been busy shipping baled hay to drought-stricken Southern states to help feed their livestock.

Twelve counties in Kentucky are eligible for emergency disaster assistance, as a result of drought-related crop losses and other damage from this past summer. Those counties are Garrard, Madison, Pike, Harlan, Ballard, Livingston, McCracken, Allen, Bell, McCreary, Simpson and Whitley.

Kentucky will have 11 FFA members attending the national convention in Kansas City, Mo., receiving their FFA American Farmer Degrees. Those candidates are James Gardner, Andrew Roe, Robert Hines, Rodd Dickerson, Tim White, Bob Allen, Paul Langley, Timothy Chester, Richard Reynolds, Kelly Smith and Barry Gash.

Rushville, Ind., Stockyards (Old Doc Meyer Barn), daily buying station seven days a week: hogs, boars, sows, cows, fat cattle and backgrounded feeder calves available.

Members of the East Clinton FFA Chapter, Lees Creek, Ohio, were recognized as the winner and one of the 10 national finalists for the Chapter Development area of the Model of Innovation at the National FFA Convention in Louisville, Ky.

The Illinois 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl team took top honors in the National 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl recently in Louisville. Members of the team are Evan Brinkmeier and Kye and Lance Koester of Dakota and Julie Drendel of Hampshire. The team was coached by Dave Fischer, University of Illinois extension animal systems educator based in Edwardsville.

Dale and Jerri Jo Lair of Ashland, Ill., recently displayed their 1942 Case VAC antique tractor at the Capital City Farm and Ranch Show.