Public sale of property belonging to Herbert Riser, New Palestine rural route, consisting of: 15 head beef Shorthorn cattle, 10 head of Landrace Hampshire hogs and equipment, 1,000 bushels of corn and miscellaneous farm equipment.

Brandywine Blue Ribbon Girls choose 4-H club officers: President Glolma Allen; Vice President Linda Hutchings; Secretary-Treasurer Margaret Polley; News Reporter Rita Kocher; Song Leader Marilyn Daugherty; Recreational Leader Carmen Swain; and Health Leader Thelma Goodloe.

Real estate for sale: 160-acre large modern home and barn, attractive, east of Fisher in Hamilton County, $300 per acre for quick sale – contact Earl Kiger, Realtor, Indianapolis.

Knightstown Sale Barn top prices: feeder pigs $18; shoats by pound $22; piggy sows $87; fat hogs $24.40; butcher sows; baby calves $58; Holstein springier heifer $345; Angus heifers $250; feeder calves $38.25 per pound; dollar calves $80-$148; Butcher cows $24.10.

A pack of three Saint Bernard dogs killed or seriously injured a flock of 24 registered Cheviot sheep belonging to Ronnie Stephens of Waldron. 

Thirteen ewes and five baby lambs were dead and a ram and the other ewes were “chewed up” so badly they were not expected to live. Ownership of the dogs has not been determined. The dogs were destroyed.

Public auction of real estate: 90 acres located southeast of New Lisbon. This farm is used primarily as a stock farm; all the buildings are either new or completely rebuilt. The 122-year-old brick house is completely modern, with a basement under the entire house, new oil heating system and new well. New three-car garage with workshop, implement storage sheds, butchering rook, lights and water in the barn. Noble Stokes Jr., Auctioneer.

Dave Hamilton of New Castle, Ind., has 30 acres of “sugar bush” or maple groves that he harvests maple syrup from each year and sells from his home. Hamilton states it roughly takes 45 gallons of tree sap to produce one gallon of finished syrup, but quickly adds it also depends on the sugar concentration.

Indiana U.S. Sen. Richard Lugar, Republican leader of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has received confirmation that Korea will purchase 170,000 tons of soybeans this year from the state of Indiana. Central State Enterprises in Decatur, Ind., will be the distributor of the soybeans to Korea.

Grand Champion overall truckload of barrows at this year’s Hoosier Barrow Show was William Nash & Sons of Sharpsville and Reserve Champion truckload went to Guy and Kent Jackson of Warren, Ind.

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Illinois pork farmers are in the process of building their own packing plant at Rantoul. The Meadowbrook Farms project marks the first farmer-owned packing plant to be built in the United States. The plant will be capable of handing 6,000 hogs per day.

A cow that eluded police for 10 days after escaping from a meatpacking plant was captured when an SPCA officer shot it with a tranquilizer dart.

Under a new bill pending in the Ohio House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee, farms of 1,000 acres or more would be eligible for an additional tax exemption worth up to 75 percent of the property value, by promising not to sell the land to strip mall or housing developers and keeping the land in agriculture for 10 years.