Rugged, well-hammed meat-type Poland China boars, farrowed in August – Curtis Groves & Son, Fortville, Ind.

Tractor price specials: New Oliver, Super 55, $1,700; New Oliver Super 77 gas, $1,995; New Oliver, 17 tractor-spreader, $395; Fencing supplies including 1047 all #10 wire, $1.57 per rod; 1047 - 10-11-47, $1.55 per rod; seven-foot steel posts, $1.05; 6.5-foot steel post, 95 cents – John Bentley, Greenfield, Ind.

The recent fifth annual Junior Corn Growers’ Jamboree at Purdue University was held, with following selected: David Martin, Rockville, Ind., five-acre corn champion; Marilyn Smith, Knightstown, jamboree queen; and Melvin Clodfelter, Judson, five-acre contour winner.

The average size of an Indiana farm is 180 acres and the total land in farms in Indiana amounts to 17.6 million acres, according to the state-federal agricultural statisticians at Purdue University.

Used farm equipment for sale: 1256 3 pt., cab, 700 hours, $8,400; 856 F. H. HyS seat W.F., $7,200; 706 new engine, $3,950; 400 cyclo 6- to 30-inch dry fet., $2,550; 815 combine with 15-foot plat., corn and beans, $13,500; 815 demo combine 14- foot plat 4/38-inch hd, $18,500; one-ton Int. 10-foot body truck, $995 – Harrison Farm Equipment, Harrison, Ohio.

Good, sound Charolais bulls, farmer’s prices – Thompson Charolais Farms, Knightstown, Ind.

Mercer County in Ohio retained its No. 1 spot in agricultural cash receipts, with Darke County coming in second and Wayne County placing third. Cash receipts are from livestock, crops and government payments. Cash receipts totaled $3.9 billion for the entire state, an increase of 9 percent from the previous year.

Briggs Equipment, Inc. of Greensburg, Ind. – DMI fertilizer applicators Model 3200, 5 shanks, $1,797; 7 shanks, $2,755; 9 shanks, $2,843; 11 shanks, $3,199; and 13 shanks, $3,695.

The USDA has extended the period during which producers of dry-cured and country-cured hams may continue to use traditional, but as yet unapproved, methods of curing.

Hoosier Hereford producers have done something that many in the cattle industry might find hard to believe; They put aside their differences and merged the Indiana Horned Hereford Assoc. and the Indiana Polled Hereford Assoc. to form the Indiana Hereford Assoc.

Soybean diseases in Ohio have increased in number and severity over the past 10 years, so that today the loss of productivity is greater from disease than from any other factor except weather. The increase in disease pressure is due primarily to short crop rotations or no crop rotation.

Real estate for sale: 1031 opportunity, (290) tillable acres, $839,550 firm; presently cash rented, $47,850, 5.7 percent return, Crawfordsville, Ind.