55 years ago Pickering’s Quality Indiana Certified Seed. Newton & Clintland Oats, Clark Soybean, Seed Corn A.E.S. 808, Conn. 870, 620C, 844D and 419 – Willard Pickering & Son, Lewisville, Ind.
Wally Caine, Middletown, has been elected president of Farmhouse fraternity at Purdue and William Murray of Mooreland has been named Rush chair for the coming year.
A registered Guernsey herd of 10 cows, about 40 sows and pigs, farm machinery, hay and grain were among the losses when fire leveled a barn on the Wayne Holwager & Son farm north edge of Middletown. All the cows had been shown at the Henry 4-H fair and the herd topped the Henry DHIA production report for January.
40 years ago Farm equipment for sale: 8N Ford Tractor, $550; 861 Ford Diesel with loader, $1950; IN. 806 with cab and deals, $7250; 1968 630 Combine with grain head, four-row corn head and cab, $11,200; 1970 Case 600 combine with cab & 13-foot grain head, $7,900; Massey Super 92 combine with 13-foot grain head, cab and three-row grain head, $6,250 – Grant County Ford Tractor, Inc., Gas City, Ind.
Gene Isler of Prospect, Ohio, will be the judge in the pre-sale show of the Indiana Duroc Assoc. Show and Sale to be held at the Fairgrounds in Greenfield, Ind. Col. Howard Parrish will call the bids. The sale committee consists of Albert Arthur, Rex Burge, Henry Bodenreider, Henry Comer Jr., Bruce Lugar and Merle Kemple. A motorist who traveled on Indiana Route 18 between Bryant and Indiana 1 north of Winchester, had to find alternate routes after a bridge on the east-west highway collapsed. The collapse happened after a semi truck passed over it.
25 years ago Carthage Tractor & Implement, Carthage, Ind., clearance sale on lawn equipment in stock: JD R72 riding mower, 30-inch elect start, $1,075; JD S82 riding mower, 30-inch elect start, $1,350; JD 330 16 hp diesel with 50-inch mower, $4,630; JD 750 MFWD Tractor with 60-inch mower, $7,850.
Tom Issler of Marion County, Ohio, has sold two of his finest bred Jersey milking heifers to a Japanese buyer and they will be shipped to Japan along with a total of 30 dairy cattle from Ohio. Tom and his family are a fifth-generation farming family from Prospect, Ohio, going back to 1847 when his great-great-grandfather, E.A. Finefrock, cleared 50 acres of land.
Winners of Master Farmer Awards, sponsored by Indiana Prairie Farmer, for this year are Leroy Brammer of Patriot, Tom Crane of Loogootee, Robert Foltz of Shelbyville and Bill and Kay Whitehead of Muncie.
10 years ago Beck’s Hybrids, a family-owned seed company in Atlanta, Ind., is celebrating 65 years in the seed business this year and with this celebration it is also adopting a new company logo that will help more broadly identify the company in the marketplace, said Sonny Beck, president of Beck’s.
Great Pyrenees livestock guard dog pups, AKC, raised on farm, from working parents – Knightstown, Ind.
Last year’s acquisition of Tri-Valley Growers East Coast tomato brands made Red Gold the largest tomato products processor east of the Rocky Mountains, and the third largest in the United States. Red Gold is based out of Elwood, Ind.
(Editor’s note: Tom Issler, mentioned in “25 Years Ago,” is the father of current Farm World Associate Editor Meggie I. Foster.) |
