Average farm prices for last month were: hogs per cwt., $16.30; beef cattle per cwt., $16; corn per bushel, $1.20; wheat per bushel, $2.07; eggs per dozen, 30 cents; wool per pound, 48 cents; and lambs per cwt., $19.80.

Albert Titzer and his son, Ralph, who farm near Evansville in Vanderburg County, recently won the Indiana DeKalb Top Honors Award in their corn growing contest, with a five-acre plot yield of 163.4 bushels.

Napoleon Lumber Co. of Napoleon, Ind., has for sale: 4-by-12-foot feed bunk, $35; combination ensilage feeder and hay rack, $70; hay rack, $60; combination hay rack and feeder, $90; calf feeder, $145; bunker silo, $90; cattle feeder-grain, $190 – delivered free anywhere in Indiana.

A progressive central Indiana farmer, Larry Harris of Cambridge City, is planning to take part in an experimental fly-on of 25 acres of corn on his farm in Wayne County. The fly-on will take place during the end of April, weather permitting. Low flying pass-over of planting of the field will require dropping of seeds, fertilizer, herbicides and defoliants.

Morton Buildings: installed 47-by-72-foot machine shed with big doors, $5,735; contact Glen McRill, manager, Michael Christy or George Cameron III, salesman, at Rushville, Ind.

English Shepherd puppies, 6 weeks old, natural heelers, tri-color – Albert Martin, Maxwell, Ind.

Farm activities have been running well ahead of schedule in Kentucky, with seeding of tobacco beds 82 percent complete. Twenty-two percent of the beds have emerged plants, with condition of the beds fair to mostly good.

Highest prices ever paid at University of Kentucky/ Kentucky Beef Cattle Assoc. Central Bull Test Station: average bull price was $1,606, with the top yearling, a Polled Hereford consigned by Longbranch Farm in Brandenburg, bringing in a record $4,000 bid from Furrow Farms of Adolphus.

Indiana farm acreage statewide has declined from 16 million acres in 1991 to 15.4 million acres last year, according to Chris Hurt, a Purdue University agricultural economist. The decline in number of Indiana farms is down 7 percent.

Paul W. Reidenbach Equipment Co., Decatur, Ind., used farm equipment for sale: 7000 12-row folding planter with dry fert., $12,995; New Killbros 24-foot field cult-$7,995; hopper wagon auger 14-foot, $750; New Hardi sprayer, 15-gallon foam marker, $995.

Purdue’s School of Agriculture is seeking host families for 10 Japanese exchange students traveling to Indiana this summer. The students will be here approximately four weeks, from early August to early September. They are all undergraduate agriculture students here to learn about Hoosier farming and families.