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Charles Dunn, rural Delia, brought this interesting gourd, shaped like a giant cucumber, into the "Star" office last week. The gourd measured 27" in length and was light green with darker green spots. Charles said this is the only gourd on that vine.

Dean Davis and Scott Kelsey, both of Rossville, and Mrs. Virg Huseman, Topeka, have volunteered to be county coordinators of the Kansas Beef Development Taskforce (KBDT).

A state organization of cattle producers, the KBDT is supporting a "yes"…

Three separate search and screening committees have been named by Kansas State University to review nominations and applications for the new associate dean positions designated in KSU's recent agricultural reorganization.

The committees were named…

Larry Kokenge, an employee of Continental Grain, Rossville, took a moisture sample from a truckload of corn Friday. The corn harvest is nearly complete and the bean harvest is starting.

Photo by Brandon Magette

Part A
Neighbors Help Neighbors
Elsie Rasch brought the noon meal for the harvest crew.

Small communities are caring communities and this fact was driven home Wednesday, November 5, when relatives and neighbors of the late “Bud” Rasch gathered…

Henry Martinek, Rossville, shows off some of the cotton he grew in his garden this season. Henry's daughter, Jo Copeland, contacted a sister-in-law in Alabama and asked her to send Henry the seeds, which he planted in April. He says the rows of…

Photo by Belinda Driscoll

HENRY MARTINEK, Rossville, has been growing sunflowers for about 15 years but has never had one this size! Planted the first of March from a Russian brand of sunflower seed, Martinek expected the plant to be short as…

This on-farm-grain storage system was installed on the Laird French farm 2 1/2 miles south of Rossville last year. Farmers are showing more and more interest in such systems. This one was included in the annual irrigation tour this year by Shawnee…

Campbell Nominee for Young Farmer Award

Art L. Campbell, 32, a Rossville farmer, will be among the nominees for the Kansas Jaycees’ Outstanding Young Farmer Award to be hosted to a weekend at Emporia February 15-17, 1980. The winners in the…

Rossville Has a New
Agri-Business
Representative
Dean Davis recently took over the DeKalb dealership which Curt Berkey had for many years. He will be selling corn and milo seed. Davis farms 400 acres and has an 80-head registered Hereford cattle…