Rossville Farmer Gets Jaycee Award

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Rossville Farmer Gets Jaycee Award

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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 acres, 360 of which is irrigated, and specializes in hybrid seed corn, hybrid milo seed, and certified seed wheat, and uses a deferred feeding system for cattle.

He was graduated from Kansas State College and is a member of the Farm Management Association No. 4 of Northeast Kansas, of which he served as president for one year and secretary for three.

Kelsey is a member of the state membership committee of the Farm Bureau and has been president for two years of the county group and a member of the board of directors four years. He also has served as editor of the county Farm Bureau News. He also belongs to Topeka Lodge No. 17, Scottish Rite Bodies.

He and his wife, Greta, have a daughter six years old a son, four.

Creator

We believe this clipping is from the Rossville Reporter, Rossville, Kansas

Publisher

Rossville Community Library

Date

ca. 1957-1959

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newspaper clipping

Identifier

RCL0302

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