Six Rush County farmers have consigned to the 4-H and FFA pig sale. Consignors are Virgil and Carl Ging, Lowell Norris-Russell Norris-John Green farm, Donald Gray, Don Richey, E.P. Stanley and family and Stanley Hurst. Hoyt Vanderbeck of Falmouth and Landy Phares of Shelby County will be the auctioneers.

Orbie Padgett, Morristown auto dealer, has obtained the Ford tractor franchise for Shelby County to add to his car business. He has leased a building in Morristown to house the tractor sales agency.

Used 1953 car specials: Dodge four-door 6-cylinder, $733; Pontiac four-door 8-cylinder, $899; Mercury hardtop, $1,099; Plymouth convertible, $877 – Goodwins Dodge & Plymouth, Knightstown, Ind.

Alfalfa weevil is spreading in Indiana. David Matthew, Purdue University extension entomologist, advises farmers to examine fields to determine the need to spray for weevil control.

Bolens Model 728 riding lawn mower with 7 hp Tecumseh motor-recoil starter or electric kit optional – Berkemeier’s Feed & Grain, Sexton, Ind.

Sickle Suffolk’s of Winchester, Ind., will hold its first production sale at the 4-H grounds in Winchester. Duane Sickle started raising Suffolk sheep 15 years ago as a 4-H club member and now owns 300 head of sheep. Auctioneer for the sale will be Roland Rosenboom of Clifton, Ill.

Crop report: Indiana tillage is 90 percent complete, corn planting is 8 percent done. Winter wheat is rated 65 percent good, with 25 percent roughly at the joint stage and 10 inches tall. Oat seeding is 92 percent complete, tobacco is virtually all planted, pasture quality is 61 percent good. Soil moisture is 66 percent adequate for topsoil and subsoil is 75 percent adequate.

Real estate for sale: 117-acre farm in Randolph County, Ind., 105 acres tillable, priced at $80,000: 552.86 acres in Rush County, near Arlington on U.S. Highway 52, 496 acres tillable, priced at $1,400 per acre.

Used farm equipment: 1983 JD 8820D, 560 hours, $56,500; JD 1982 7720D, 920 hours, $44,500; JD 15-foot rotary hoe, $1,250; Art’s Way 450 grinder with scales, $4,000; JD S-tine cultivator, $1,500; JD 7000, 4RW, dry, insect, $4,500; JD 7000, 16 RN, liq. Insect, $18,500 – Smith Implement, Greenfield, Ind.

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Real estate for sale: 1031 Exchange farmland, 213 acres tillable, prepaid 6.2 percent return on $564,450: Crawfordsville, Ind.

The Ohio FFA Convention was held recently with the following new state officers selected to serve for the coming year: President Marlene von Stein; Vice President Lindsey Calhoun; Secretary Bethany Frew; Treasurer Chris Sprangue; and Sentinel Jill Tyson.

War Emblems won the Kentucky Derby, the winning jockey was Victor Espinoza and the owner is Saudi Prince Ahmed Bin Salman. Seventeen horses completed the race.