U.R. Zeller, County Sorghum Yield Champion
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 the 1958 National Selected Five Acre DeKalb Sorghum Yield Contest. C.V. Cochran (left) of Topeka was the second place winner with a yield of 5010.89 pounds per acre. The third place winner, Clyde Wyatt (right) of N. Topeka, had a yield of 4870.98 pounds per acre. (RCL Note- U.R. Zeller not pictured)
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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.
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Charles Dunn with unusual gourd, Delia, Kansas
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.
Davis and Kelsey Serve on Shawnee County Cattle Task Force
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" vote in the national beef referendum to promote the industry through increased beef promotion, consumer education, research and foreign market development. The Taskforce estimates the program to raise $30-40 million a year through a national voluntary check-off program of three-tenths of one percent on the sale value of all cattle. More than 80 national and 20 state producer organizations have endorsed it. As Shawnee County coordinators they will be organizing campaign efforts to pass the referendum by holding county meetings and disseminating information.
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 Tuesday, September 23, by John O. Dunbar, who will become the University's new Dean of Agriculture and Director of the Agricultural Experiment Station on January 1. KSU is now conducting a nationwide search to fill three positions established in a recent reorganization of the University's agricultural programs. The positions are associate dean and director of agricultural research; associate dean and director of the Kansas Cooperative Extension Service; and associate dean and director of resident instruction. In announcing the search committees, Dunbar said the closing date for nominations is September 25. "As soon thereafter as all applications and references can be assembled, the committee for each position will proceed as quickly as possible without sacrificing the quality of their efforts." Final recommendations from the committees will go to Dunbar, who in turn, will provide recommendations for appointment to the Provost and the President. No specific appointment deadlines have been set. But, Dunbar said, officials hope all the positions can be filled by late November. According to Dunbar, Charles Deyoe, head of the Department of Grain Science and Industry, will chair the committee for associate dean and director of agricultural research. Rolland "Red" Parr, an agricultural producer from Rossville, is one of the screening committee members.
Earl Mitchell, Tractor Accident, Delia, Kansas
Earl Mitchell of Rural Delia escape serious injury Friday afternoon when his tractor fell from the Soldier Creek bridge throwing him clear. Mitchell suffered only broken ribs. The front wheels of the tractor fell into a plank crack on the bridge and pulled the tractor to the side, dropping it about ten feet.
From the "Rossville Times:" Last week, A.L. Stalker weighed 50 ears of corn for William McGuire and 50 for J.M. Parr. They weighed 74 and 78 pounds, respectively, an average of a little better than one and one-half pounds each. They were plucked in haste, and they think they could select even bigger ears.
Originally published in The Rossville Times, Rossville Kansas Reprinted in the St. Marys Star, St. Marys, Kansas
Original date of content: September 1895 Reprinted: September 25, 1990
Not only being honored by his Masonic brethren (sic) on 50 years of membership in Hesperian Lodge, Ed Patterson, also is the owner of a farm on the Reservation, five acres of which produced 119 (sic) bushels of corn to the acre. It was the second crop on land near the North Branch which empties into Big Soldier Creek. Mr. Patterson had scale tickets from the Willard Grain Co. to back up his corn record. It brought $1.54 a bushel--a white hybrid variety: (10c a line for naming the variety.)
Ralph Page and 1967 Corn Harvest, Rossville, Kansas
It's harvest time again--corn harvest began this week and Ralph Page of Rossville was one of the first farmers into the field. Mr. Page remarked that he hadn't had such a weedy field for years. He said he was only able to work his field twice because of the heavy rains.
Shawnee County Reporter, Rossville, Kansas
Larry Kokenge and 1990 Corn Harvest, Rossville, Kansas
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