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Albert and Emile Martinek pulling out hedge stumps with their 1917 Mogul tractor in March 1923.

Leo Dale Berry and Carl Rupin recognized the potential of irrigation and the benefits it would have to their current grain business. In 1953 they formed the Berry Irrigation Company and shipped the first carload of aluminum pipe to Kansas. In 1954…

This unidentified farmer is harvesting using his Farmall and McCormick-Deering in Rossville, Kansas.

Joe Penaz uses his Farmall 10-20 and combine to harvest wheat in Rossville, Kansas. His farm was a mile and a half north of Rossville according to Laverne Zlatnik.

An oil well located about three miles north of Rossville, Kansas. It did not hit oil.

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Future business outlook good

Future business outlook for Shawnee County appears to be on the better side. Regardless of what the recent tele¬vision show “The Land” said about small towns in Kansas dying, those in Shawnee County…

"Now is the time when corn needs water. If the water does not come from above, it must come from below, through irrigation," Herb Bulk, Shawnee County agent said in outlining plans for the annual irrigation tour in Shawnee County.

Bulk said a…

U.R. Zeller of Rossville was recently named the county sorghum yield champion at a banquet held in Topeka where county sorghum yield champions were honored. Zeller's yield of 6036.35 pounds per acre topped Shawnee County in the dryland division of…

Rossville Farmer Gets Jaycee Award

The Topeka Junior Chamber of Commerce has named Richard D. Kelsey of Rossville the outstanding young farmer of the year.

Kelsey, 30, has been farming for eight years. He operates a partnership project of 750…