Used cars for sale: 1955 Plymouth, four-door, radio and heater, one owner, $1,399; 1954 Chevrolet, two-door, radio and heater, $1,099; 1954 Plymouth, four-door, new tires, heater, low mileage, $1,099 – Goodwin’s Dodge & Plymouth, Knightstown, Ind.

Administrator’s sale of personal property at public auction, estate of Noble W. Jonas of Moral Township, Shelby County, Ind., north of Shoestring Pike: 18 head of Angus cattle, 33 head of hogs, 17 head of sheep, four mares, farming implements, hay and seed – Emerson Brunner and Fred Cramer, co-administrators; Sexson and Bradley and Cox, Auctioneers.

Passed in the Indiana legislature, HB 15 would require licensing of contract seed dealers, labeling of treated seeds and an annual retest for germination, and prohibits false advertising of seeds; passed, 48-0, and goes to the governor.

Parkinson & Rodibaugh of Rensselaer exhibited the Reserve Champion Bred gilt and the second Top Selling Bred Gilt at the recent National Chester White Spotlight Congress held at Duncan, Okla. The reserve champion gilt sold for $725.

Otto Galyen, a farmer north of Westport, was bitten on the right leg by a rabid fox as he entered his barn and has started taking the series of rabies shots. There were also several lambs on his farm bitten by the rabid fox.

Junior Williams, Bob Helms, Tony Terhaar and Duane Hill were elected directors of the Wayne County Holstein Breeders Assoc. at the recent annual meeting held at Hagerstown.

Bryant Equipment of Bryant, Ind., equipment for sale: JD 7520 dual sharp, $14,500; MF 1805 cat. Engine, nice, $9,500; Case 930 gas, $2,850; IH 490 20-foot, extra nice, $5,200; MF 17-foot wing disk, $850; and Hiniker FC, $2,800.

The Indiana Young Farmers Assoc. recognized John Hardy of Walton as Star Farmer, Marcheta Davis of Russiaville as Star Farm Wife and Steve Jackson of Evansville as its Star Agribusinessman, during the association’s recent annual conference in Indianapolis.

David Robinson of Union County won first place in the statewide corn production contest conducted by the University of Kentucky’s College of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service. Robinson averaged 212.69 bushels per acre on his conventionally-tilled Union County farm. He used Stauffer 7759 corn seed on a 11.5-acre plot.

Despite opposition from major farm groups, the U.S. Senate voted 66-31 to cap payments at $275,000 per farm annually.

Ohio’s winter wheat acreage is down 8 percent because of the unusual wet weather during planting in October that waterlogged fields, creating ideal disease situations that either killed the seeds during germination or killed the seedlings after emergence.

The Johnson County Farm Bureau, Inc. Young Farmers were recently named the Outstanding County Young Farmer Chapter at the Indiana Farm Bureau Young Farmers convention.