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Safety Stop Information courtesy of Kansas Farm Bureau’s Safety and Ag Ed Division Do you allow young adults to perform farm work on an ATV or UTV? If so, a responsible adult needs to make sure: • All safety features are in place • Engine size is appropriate for the operator • Machine is in good working order • Machine is not operated after dark or in bad weather • Work area has no hazards • Operator knows safe route to work site • Operator can communicate with adult by cell phone, walkie-talkie or other method • Operator wears DOT approved (or equivalent) helmet with eye protection, long sleeved shirt and long pants, leather gloves and non-skid shoes.

Speaking dat Hace American By John Schlageck, Kansas Farm Bureau

While most people in our state speak the same language, there’s still a couple of counties in north-central Kansas where the King’s English Dicamba herbicides Engenia, FeXapan, and is spoken in a unique manner – heck let’s call a XtendiMax are classified as Restricted Use spade a spade. It’s a totally different language. Pesticides (RUPs). In order to be able to purAfter spending four years at Fort Hays State Unichase these herbicides, you must possess either versity, listening to my Uncle Alex, who grew up on a private applicator license or a 1A (Agriculture a farm northeast of Hays and visiting with farmers and ranchers who continue to live in and call this Plant) commercial applicator license. In addition, the products have additional label part of our state home, I’ve decided to write about their language – so rich and unique to Kansas. restrictions when applying. An applicator must And please don’t think I’m making fun of these attend specific auxin inhibitor (dicamba) training people who share this strong Volga German heriin order to apply these products in the field for tage. Just look at my last name. I’m one of them. 2018. In Kansas, the trainings will be sponsored Sit back and read ‘cause here’s how the story by K-State Research and Extension, as well as gosse (goes). Whoa boyce (the fellas), I’m getting industry representatives from BASF, Dow/Dupont ahead of myself. and Monsanto. It will be the responsibility of In case you haven’t visited, Hace is a small city the applicators to obtain this training before the in the north-central region of Kansas. A Cow’ndy is application of these herbicides. a small district within a state and Hace is located in Ellis Cow’ndy. And Wine is a major street in Q: Is all Dicamba now a restricted use pestiHace. cide (RUP)? Tounce are even smaller cities and there are sevA: No, only the new formulation of Dicamba, eral tounce in Ellis Cow’ndy. Muncher, Chinchin the products that are approved for use in crops and Cat’rin are some of these small towns. with XtendiMax technology (i.e.: Engenia, FeXaChirman has long been the unofficial language pan, and XtendiMax) spoken in Hace. Grimpa (your father’s father) talks Chirman to the boyce. Q: What if my hired help runs the sprayer My Uncle Alex was forever axding (inquiring) working under my pesticide license, do they need me, “How much money do you make?” He also the training? axed me dis and dat (this and that) and do you have A: Yes, even if they are working under your one of deese, two of dose and three of dem (these, pesticide applicators license (commercial or pri- those and them)? vate). Anyone operating the application machine Farmers around Hace generally kept cattle in red is required to have the training in order to legally barns built with borts. Borts are pieces of lumber like dem 2 X 4 borts. The livestock in the barns apply the product. were usually couse (cows). You might even find a cult inside the barn. A cult is a young horse. These Q: Where can I get the training completed? farmers sometimes feed their cult by trowing (to A: K-State Research and Extension as well as toss) them a bale of hay. many private companies have been approved to Hace farmers haul their livestock to market in provide the training to applicators. Just be sure a pigup (small truck). And they put the livestock the training is approved by EPA/KDA. You will in the back-a-duh (back of the) truck. When these need to sign and provide your information on a sheet upon completion of the training to become folks go to town for church on Sunday they drife (drive) their carse. These automobiles include the officially registered. This is a list of trainings following types: Fort, Pony’ac and Olce. Until a KSRE currently has. Please check back if you few years ago no one would be seen dead driving a do not find one near you, as trainings are being leedle (little) forn (foreign) car made in Japan. scheduled daily and the list is constantly being Every few years these farmers are blessed with updated. rain and the roads become (Continued on page 21)

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The Covered Dish: Chocolate Zucchini Cake Nothing beats the freshness of a zucchini cake whether it’s chocolate or regular zucchini. In fact, I think zucchini makes its’ best presentation in baked goods. I enjoy sautéing the vegetable and stuffing the squash, but it’s always been one of my favorite things to use in baked goods. When I’m freezing zucchini I always grate and freeze more than I’m going to need because of how it gets so mushy in the freezer. Using vacuum sealers helps this process greatly. Lately I’ve jumped into using the new spaghetti style graters and turning zucchini into more of a pasta. One of my favorite breakfasts would be two over medium eggs served on top of grated zucchini with onions. Of course, the zucchini is sautéed under those lovely eggs. Geeze a little cheese wouldn’t be bad either. This will give the feeling of eating potatoes without the potatoes. Saves on starch/sugar, big time.

In this chocolate zucchini cake there is room for all kinds of swap outs. Some of you will ‘choke’ when you see the amount of vinegar to cream that I use for substitute buttermilk. I know, but let me tell you it’s yummy! The cinnamon jumps in and enhances the chocolate flavor and is a nice energizer bunny for the cake. If you think it’s too much, pull back to 1/2 teaspoon. I usually strive for a good brand of chocolate. If you think 1/4 cup of cocoa is not enough, just wait until it’s totally stirred together. I felt the same way when I ran it the first time. Some cooks use only a couple of eggs in a cake of this nature. I like the extra richness that eggs bring to a cake and it’s also a nice volumizer. On the sugar you will find 1 1/2 cups to 2 is pretty common. I actually used less sugar than most chocolate zucchini cakes. You will note the cake was prepared in a Bundt pan. There’s no reason

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Chocolate Zucchini Cake

The Covered Dish By Debbie Dance-Uhrig

not to use a 9 x 13, muffin tins, or bread pans. Just remember these pans will take a great deal less time to bake than the Bundt pan. It’s been a great week on the home front. Realizing my down time is about to come to an end is difficult. However it’s also good to return to a routine in our lives. I’ve bumped into many guests over the break and I’m looking forward to a new season at Silver Dollar City. We’ll have lots of new recipes to help shake up your family menus. Do something out-

1/4 cup cocoa, (use good brand) 1/2 cup canola oil or oil of your 1 teaspoon soda choice 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 cup very soft butter, almost 1/2 teaspoon salt melted 1 teaspoon cinnamon 1 1/2 cups granulated sugar 2 cups grated zucchini, (skin left 3 large eggs, whisked on) 1 teaspoon vanilla 1 cup mini chocolate chips 3/4 cup buttermilk or (1/2 cup 1/2 cup Pecans or English half/half with 1/4 cup vinegar) Walnuts, optional 2 1/2 cups flour This recipe is a culmination of several of my favorite cake ingredients. So easy to prepare. Set oven at 325 or even 300 degrees if desired. For baking I used a Bundt pan. The recipe will also fit in a 9 x 13 nicely. Spray Bundt pans with vegetable spray that includes flour, or dust by adding flour. Make sure to do a good job covering the bottom of the pan. Start at the top of the recipe and cream the oil, butter and sugar together. Bring in whisked eggs, vanilla and buttermilk, combining all ingredients. Make a ‘well’ in center, as best as you can and add all dry ingredients. Stir mixture by hand to blend. Lastly; stir in the grated zucchini, chocolate chips and nuts, if you’re using them. Once ingredients are well blended pour into prepared bakeware. Set timer for about 40 minutes in a 325 degree oven and begin monitoring for doneness. Sometimes a Bundt pan can be a ‘fooler’ making you think it’s done, when it is not. Use a toothpick to test besides the pulling from the sides of the pan. Allow to cool about 20-25 minutes before inverting the cake. My family does not care for icing so I usually create a simple glaze and pour over the entire cake just to help hold the moisture. A white glaze or a chocolate glaze works on this baked good. Enjoy! rageous this week. So what if someone suspects you’re a bit ‘off.’ Take a risk, step out and squeeze

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Wholesome ingredients can help up your intake during Friday, the darkFebruary days of winter 16 (Family Features) Staying indoors and wrapping up in a blanket is one way to avoid winter’s frigid weather, but less exposure to the sun can also put you at risk of a vitamin D deficiency. Milk is the primary source of vitamin D in the American diet, according to research published in the FASEB Journal, making it a great choice on dark winter days. An 8-ounce glass of milk provides 30 percent of the daily value of vitamin D, so just three cups of milk each day will provide 90 percent of your body’s recommended daily requirements. Milk is also an easy way to get other essential nutrients like B vitamins for energy, high-quality protein for lean muscle and vitamin A for a healthy immune system. When you need a quick way to warm up on a cold day, try this creamy chicken corn chowder recipe that can be made with a pressure cooker. Cooked with wholesome ingredients like milk, chicken and potatoes and topped with bacon and green onions, it’s an easy and delicious addition to your weekly meal rotation. For more recipes to warm up your winter, visit milklife.com. Pressure Cooker Corn Chowder Servings: 12 6 slices (6 ounces each) thick-cut bacon, chopped 1 small yellow onion, diced 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 pound boneless skinless chicken breast, diced 1 bag (16 ounces, about 3 1/3 cups) frozen corn kernels 4 cups chicken broth 1 pound unpeeled or peeled Yukon Gold pota-

toes, cut into 1/4-1/2-inch chunks 02-14 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt, plus additional, to taste 1/2 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper, plus additional, to taste 2 tablespoons cornstarch 1 1/2 cups fat-free milk 2-3 green onions, sliced (optional) 1 tablespoon heavy cream or half-and-half 02-21 (optional) Heat large skillet over medium-high heat. Add chopped bacon and cook until crispy. Using a slotted spoon, transfer cooked bacon to paper towel-lined plate and pour off all but 1 tablespoon bacon fat. Return skillet to stove. Add onion and garlic; saute 2 minutes, stirring frequently. Add diced chicken and frozen corn; saute for an additional 3 minutes, stirring02-28 often. Remove skillet from heat and transfer contents to pressure cooker. Add chicken broth, potatoes, salt and pepper. Close and seal pressure cooker, making sure the vent is in the sealed position. Cook on high 8 minutes. While the chowder cooks, make a slurry by whisking cornstarch (or flour) into milk. Set aside.

When done, remove pressure and creamShrimp or half-and-half, if Grilled cooker from heat. Allow presdesired. Season with additional sure to release on its own or salt and pepper, to taste. 17 Saturday February carefully quick-release pressure Nutritional information after a few minutes. Stir in the Smothered per serving: 190 calories; 5 g Breast cornstarch-milk slurry. Cover Chicken fat; 1.5 g saturated fat; 35 mg and allow chowder to thicken for cholesterol; 14 g protein; 20 g 6803 w. hwy. 61, hutchinson Open Mon.-Sat. 10-15 minutes before serving. carbohydrates; 2 g fiber; 530 mg 620-662-2554 6 am-8 pm Portion soup into bowls and sodium; 52 mg calcium (6% of www.dutchkitchenrestaurant.org generously top with bacon. daily value). Nutrition figures Garnish with green onion based on using fat-free milk.

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Wednesday, MarchJalapeno 7th, 2018Pork Chop 1:00 PM at the ranch 6803 w. hwy. 61, hutchinson Open Mon.-Sat. Selling 70 Registered Angus Bulls 620-662-2554 6 am-8 pm

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Simply Savory Meals

(Family Features) Farm-fresh is what many families desire. Straight from the farm to your table is one of the best ways you can ensure you’re delivering a nutritious and delicious meal for family or friends. Wholesome meals can bring everyone together around the dinner table; even little ones can enjoy flaky, baked fish, a nutritious potato-based side dish and a trendy-twist on a farm-fresh beverage with these fun, flavorful recipes. Find more farm-fresh recipes at Culinary.net. Delightfully Baked Fish When it comes to baking fish, flaky and fresh can make for a great combination. For a classic meal with a seasoned flare, try this delicious baked fish with lemon pepper seasoning and onions. Find more traditional, tasty recipes at USDA.gov.

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Baked Fish Baked Fish Recipe courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture Servings: 4 Nonstick cooking spray 1 pound fish fillets (whitefish, trout or tilapia) 1 onion, sliced 1/4 teaspoon salt 1/4 teaspoon black pepper 2 teaspoons vegetable oil 1/4 teaspoon lemon pepper seasoning (optional) Heat oven to 350° F. Place 12-inch piece of foil on counter. Coat foil with nonstick cooking spray. Place fillets in middle of foil. If fillets have skin, place skin-side down. Spread sliced onions, salt, pepper and oil on top of fillets. Add lemon pepper seasoning, if desired. Fold foil over fish. Place foil pouch on baking sheet and place in oven. Bake fish 15-20 minutes until fish reaches a minimum internal temperature of 145 F on a food thermometer and is flaky when tested with fork. Divide into four portions and serve.

A Sensationally Simple Side Dish

When you’re looking for a delicious and nutritious side dish to complement any meal, look no further than this Fingerling Potato Salad. Made with nutrient-rich Wisconsin Potatoes and topped with a lemon dressing, this simple potato side packs plenty of flavor. Find more potato recipes at eatwisconsinpotatoes.com.

Fingerling Potato Salad Prep Time: 15 minutes Cook Time: 15 minutes Servings: 6 1 1/2 pounds mixed Wisconsin fingerling potatoes 2 large lemons, divided 2 cups water 2 tablespoons coarse kosher salt pepper, to taste 3 tablespoons white balsamic 4 green onions, thinly vinegar sliced 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1/3 cup chopped fresh dill 1 1/2 teaspoons whole cumin salt, to taste seeds 2 cups baby arugula 3/4 teaspoon whole coriander seeds In large pot of boiling, salted water, cook potatoes until just tender when pierced with fork, about 15 minutes. Drain and cool slightly. Slice one lemon into 1/8-inch-thick rounds. In small saucepan, combine sliced lemon, water and kosher salt; bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer until lemon slices are tender, about 10 minutes. Drain lemons then coarsely chop. Cut remaining lemon in half and squeeze out 2 tablespoons juice. In small bowl, mix chopped lemons, lemon juice, white balsamic vinegar and oil. Coarsely crush cumin and coriander seeds using mortar and pestle. Mix seeds into lemon dressing. Season, to taste, with pepper. Cut lukewarm potatoes in half lengthwise. Place in large, shallow bowl. Mix in green onions and dill. Pour lemon dressing over and toss to coat. Season, to taste, with salt and pepper. Add arugula and toss gently. Serve lukewarm or at room temperature.

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Bioengineer takes a stand Sandra Coleman

For many years Darwinism has been the undisputed law in academia, despite its ugly history, including opening the door of Eugenics. Any challenge of the theory continues to invite ridicule and loss of status. Surprisingly, a leading Finnish bioengineer, Dr. Jonathan Witt, has dared to face the consequences of seriously questioning the theory of neo Darwinism in his book, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design. Now a Christian, Dr. Witt realized that his naturalistic worldview had acted as a powerful filter preventing him from considering certain types of evidence. He had not questioned the assumption that DNA had a lot of junk, that it would be easy to improve on it. His research ultimately revealed that the cell is

brilliantly designed and that ascribing random change to the incomprehensible complexity and sophistication of a genome is absurd. Within each cell is an error correcting device, somewhat like spell check on your computer, that is quite accurate. He compared it to transcribing the complete works of Shakespeare with only one error. The cells themselves create information code that makes software systems child’s play. To think that each part developed separately one step at a time fails to address the fact that all parts have to be in place simultaneously. All evidence points stronger than ever to the original biotechnologist- a Creator whose “skill and reach dwarf those of even our finest bioengineers, and leave blind evolution in the dust.” “I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Ps. 139:14

17th Annual Tree Festival

Saturday April 7, 2018 8:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Sedgwick County Extension Education Center - 4-Hall & on the Grounds 7001 W. 21st Street North (at Ridge Rd.) Wichita, KS 67205 Sponsored by Sedgwick County Extension Master Gardener Volunteers and K-State Research & Extension - Sedgwick County Healthy Trees for the Urban Environment Trees are an investment in our landscape, for both financial and aesthetic reasons, and choosing, planting, and maintaining the best trees for our local conditions is important. Tree Fest will feature information on choosing, planting and maintaining trees that provide an important element for our quality of life and that are well-suited for our area of Kansas. Tree care professionals will be on hand at the 2018 Tree Festival to share their advice on these topics, and more, on Saturday, April 7, 2018 at the Sedgwick County Extension Education Center, 21st and Ridge Road in Wichita. Seminars include appropriate topics for both the homeowner and commercial audience. Plant vendors from around the region will have unique trees and plants for sale. Admission is FREE. Seminars and Demonstrations include: Seminars in 4-H Hall: Homeowner Decisions on Tree Selection and Placement-Bob Neier Planting and Maintaining a New Tree-Dr. Jason Griffin

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Reno County Quarter of land in CRP, $329,000. 80 acres, CRP, $165,000. Pretty Prairie-Castleton area. Possible owner finance. 620-664-4628 ---------West Central Missouri Farmland For Sale 967 Total acres *90% Tillable 150,000 Annual Cash Rent Contact Brad Brown * 318-680-7809 bbrown@ brownrealtyco.com Seller is a licensed real estate agent ---------SPORTMAN PARADISE 60 acres with beautiful lake just west of Silver Creek, NE. Across from Hwy. 3. Access from Hwy. 39 and to waterway to Platte River. Beautiful trees, lakes, wildlife galore. Near-new 3-car garage w/ year around apartment above. Large ranchstyle home under construction. One-of-a-kind Opportunity. $550,000 terms: Cash. Mike Langan, RE/MAX Total Realty. Cell 402-276-1234. Office 402-564-5999 ----------

80 A Planted Native Grass $120’s KINGMAN REAL ESTATE kingmanksre.com 620-532-3581 KINGMAN, KS

AKC REGISTERED GERMAN SHEPHERD PUPPIES ($800) These puppies will be ready to go home on March 24. They are playful, protective, and train very easy. Up to date on vac. & worms. Dam is blk/tan, Sire is blk/slvr, both have American bloodlines with strong pedigree background, $800 ($400 deposit). For more information please call 316-641-6579

Pasture 2018 Pasture Rent Young farm family in search of pasture to rent for 50+ docile pairs in central Kansas for summer 2018 and beyond. Premium price for quality grass/ fence/water. 620-242-5460 MCPHERSON ---------NEEDED: PASTURE FOR cows and calves or Fall calving cows. Phil Robinson, 785-456-3952 ---------NEED GRASS FOR 50 PAIRS, WILLING TO PAY GOOD MONEY FOR GOOD GRASS. 620-770-0560

Pets Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier Puppies, For More Information Please Call 785-792-6281 ---------Gorgeous Tiny Yorkie Puppies for sale Gorgeous Tiny Yorkie Puppies for sale. Very Playful and friendly. Home breed and well socialized. Comes with AKC Registration, Pedigree, vaccination card and. Very small, short legged and short muzzle. Perfect apple dome head. Wormed de flead and toilet trained. Fully vaccinated text for more details and pictures 651-321-3622

Livestock BUFFALO WANTED. ALL Classes, any quantity. 402-694-9353 ---------QUALITY STOCKER and FEEDER CATTLE, 100% Black or mixed, whatever fits your need. Fred Marley, 812-8524061. ---------“The Good Doing Kind” Abundance of light weight old crop green East Texas calves. These cattle are cheap. Call for quotes. 800-328-3433 ---------Non-Registered Black Angus from Final Answer, Net Worth, and Resource. From $2000 up. 620-546-4256 GREENSBURG ---------CATTLEMEN High Quality Green Nebraska & South Dakota Calves & Replacement Heifers 400-750 lb. and yearlings 650-1000 lbs.; In load lots to suit the most particular buyer. Satisfaction Guaranteed. HEINRICHS CATTLE CO LLC Bryce Heinrichs. O 402-365-7670 C 402-768-8107 ----------

FARM LAND AUCTION ONLINE ONLY

60 Acres M/L Farm Land, Development Potential Property Located 1/2 mile South of Old 81 Hwy on Anderson Avenue in Newton OFFERED IN 2 TRACTS TRACT 1 - 54 Acres M/L (43.43 Acres plus 25 platted lots) *Approx. 5 Acres reserve/pasture on Tract 1 is believed to have original, Historical Chisholm Trail Ruts. TRACT 2 - 5.6 Acres M/L BID ONLINE AT: ucnra.hibid.com Bidding will END on 3/2/2018 at 8:00pm CST. Subject to seller Confirmation. 10% Buyers Premium applied.

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EMPLOYMENT/OPPORTUNITIES Drivers, Class-A CDL: Increased Pay And New Trucks!! Dedicated Routes! No CDL? No Problem! Call Swift Today! 855-292-2945

Pratt Feeders, LLC, Pratt, KS, currently has full time opening in animal care. Responsible for pen riding, processing cattle, weighing inbound and outbound cattle. Tack and valid driver’s license required. Computer experience helpful. Salary is negotiable, based on experience. Benefits include health insurance, profit sharing, 401(k) Plan, overtime, and vacation and sick pay. Applications available by calling (620) 672-6448 or emailing kenny@ prattfeeders.com We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. 620-672-6448 PRATT Hiring Dependable People; Apply In Person. 415 W. 2nd Hutchinson. Preferred Roofing & Guttering, LLC. ---------Farm Employee Looking for person to help with all aspects of crop farming and also some cattle work such as feeding. Duties would include helping with tillage, planting, harvesting, haying, irrigation, and maintenance. Experience and references required. Wages based on experience. 316-644-2238 VALLEY CENTER, KS ----------

CDL DRIVER/EQUIPMENT OPERATOR OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY. Hazmat a plus. CDL class A or B. Must be willing to work 50 plus hours a week plus weekends. Responsibilities include: Truck maintenance, truck driving to and from job, operating equipment onsite, some heavy lifting, paperwork and miscellaneous other duties. 620-200-4822 Leave message if no answer. MCPHERSON

CDL Drivers: COMPETITIVE WAGES, per diem, Benefits. Salinabased company. step-deck, van or grain. Call 785-476-5076. Home most week-ends. ---------OFFICE/CLEANING help wanted. Part time or Full time available. Please email your resume to Brooklyn@vappropertysolutions. com or call 785-626-9400. ---------Colwich Gardens Assisted Living CMA’s needed for 12 hour shifts, Days and Nights, Fulltime & PRN Print application on-line at ColwichGardens. com Or stop by to fill out application 300 East Chicago, Colwich, Kansas 67030 316-260-1034 if you have questions. ---------Full time RANCH HELP needed. Call Lapp Ranch at 308-286-3644 ---------Reno County Job Openings: hrepartners. com. Solid Waste Management General Laborer. 620-694-2982 HUTCHINSON

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Sandstone Heights is seeking a Full time ACNA 2-10 shift and RN 2-10 shift and every other weekend. Please call 620-897-6266 to inquire or stop by Sandstone Heights and check us out.

440 State Street - Little River, KS 67457 620-897-6266 Sandstone Heights has openings in our Assisted Living Cottages.

We provide assistance in accordance to individual needs. Rent includes full access to 24-hour nursing with medication administration and monitoring and, all Sandstone Heights activities, such as shopping trips and exercise class. We provide three home cooked family style meals delivered to the AL dining room. It also includes laundry appliances in the AL building, weekly housekeeping and daily trash removal, and a reserved parking space in front of the cottages. Extra amenities provided are an emergency call system, security locks and cameras in parking lot and community living areas, kitchenette, handicap accessible bathrooms, and all utilities including television/internet are included.

Dawson County Nebraska Feed yard is looking for a qualified Feed Truck Driver and Pen Rider. Benefits include health, dental, vision, life insurance, paid holidays, vacation, sick leave, & 401K. Please call 308-529-0791 ---------JON HAJNY TRUCKING Need full time OTR truck driver 2500 to 3000 miles per week. Class A CDL required, current medical card, must have 2 years’ experience. Great pay & home time weekly, $1000 incentive bonus every 6 months, Christmas bonus, holiday pay, paid vacation. Trucks less than 3 years old & APU’s on most. Trucks are owner operator spec. Contact Jon at 785-738-8493 ---------Reno County Job Openings - hrepartners.com. Bus Driver Full-Time RCAT. 620-694-2982 HUTCHINSON ---------Help Wanted: Waitress and Bartender; 21 yrs / older; $10-$20 per Hour. 316-444-2416. Little Bear Sports Bar, Andale.

EXTENSION AGENT, Livestock Production opportunity in Central Kansas District. Office located in Minneapolis, Kansas. See www.ksre.ksu.edu/jobs for responsibilities, qualifications, and application procedure. Application deadline: 2/7/18. K-State Research and Extension is an EOE of individuals with disabilities and protected veterans. Background check required.

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February 21, 2018 The two teenagers in the front seat spent the time we were driving around town talking to each other. My sister and I, in the back seat, were just along for the ride and we enjoyed every minute of it. Even my sister was quiet during our joy rides with them. Max always stopped at the Sinclair Station and bought us a bottle of pop from the pop machine just inside the door of the building. That would have been the only place open in the evening when we were out for our ride. We really looked forward to those bottles of pop since we never had pop at home. He

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L D Angus Ranch Bulls, Pick now for Spring delivery. Larry Davisson. 620-200-4867 PLEVNA

MAINE ANJOU BULLS & replacement heifers, Call 580-334-3439 580-824-1041 WAYNOKA, OK

25 Head Of Ultra Black And Brangus Bulls, 18-30 Months Old, Calving Ease Bred For Disposition. Breeding Brangus Since 1967 Free Delivery valleyviewranchvvr.com 816-387-7322 ---------30 -18 month old Sim & Sim Angus Bulls; 80 Registered Bred Heifers, Sim Angus; 100 Registered Sim Angus Heifer Calves, 150 Yearling Bulls, BULL SALE MARCH 17. Kirk Dickinson 785-735-4347 888-603-2855 ---------45 Red Angus, 3-5 years, bred spring calving cows. 918-625-5689

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Central Livestock 811 N Main South Hutchinson, Kansas 67505 Saturday, Saturday, March 3, 2018 1st Saturday of Every Month Tack Sale at 10:00 A.M. Horse Sale at 1:00 P.M. Randy Smith: 620.200.7971 Earnie Schenker 417.309.9352 Central Livestock: 620.662.3371 www. central livestockks.com Facebook.com/ CentralLivestockHorse

Bulls & Females For Sale Registered Angus Cattle bred A.I. for: Feed Efficiency/ Fertility/Growth Nelson: 620-727-5415 2 miles south 1 ½ west of Yoder TS RANCH HEREFORD & QUARTER HORSE SALE 54th Annual Production Sale SAT. FEBRUARY 24, 2018 –12:30 P.M. 50 HEREFORD TWO YEAR OLD BULLS 50+ FEMALES 16 AQHA COLTS & FILLIES www.tsranch.net [email protected] Wes & Richell Bailey 620-273-6906 or 620-583-4172 Buck Bailey 620-340-2237

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Janssen Red Angus Silent Auction March 17 Yearling Red Angus and Sim Angus bulls Good selection of heifer bulls, performance and combination of both. Strong maternal traits, above average carcass genetics all with a quiet disposition. Semen tested & ultra sound data. Call for a catalog or visit the website. Call for a catalog: Jack 620-824-6426 (H) 620-562-7041 (C) Travis 620-824-6492 (H) 620-562-8361 (C) Geneseo, Kansas www.janssenredangus.com Seedstock Producers with a commercial focus.

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CCC Bull Sale Sat. Mar 17th - 1 PM Meal 11:30 AM Colby Community College Farm Beef Unit Breeds represented: SimAngus, Gelbvieh, Balancers Angus, Salers and Charolais Jori Steele-1255 S. Range Colby, KS 67701 785-460-5465 • 307-399-9655 email: [email protected] Live on DVAuction.com ---------Black Angus Fall Bred heifers. AI to GAR Unassisted (+14 CED). Cleanup by GAR Prophet sons (+16 CED) and Comrade son. Calve Aug 10, for 45 days. Mark Spare: 620-635-0541 ----------

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Livestock Whitetail deer farm, bucks, does, fawns, superior genetics for sale, for info & to visit farm, 6 miles North of Elk City, Donnie Jordan, 580-225-5367 580-339-0669 JENSEN BROS. Sale- Thursday, March 1, 2018, 1:00 at the ranch. 100 Hereford Bulls . 20 Replacement Heifers* Calving ease Bulls *Performance Bulls *DNA Enhanced EPD’s. Free Delivery. Kevin & Shelia Jensen, Courtland, KS. 785-374-4372, home. Kevin’s Cell: 785-243-6397. JensenBros.net jensenks@coutland. net. Performance counts because POUNDS PAY $$$ ---------POLLED HEREFORD Bulls: 12-24 months old, performance data available. Brannan and Reinhardt ~Bison, Kansas~ 785-387-1846, email [email protected] kansaspolled herefords.org/bandr ---------HONEY BEES FOR SALE: now taking orders for 3-lb packages. Rowan’s Honey Shop. 620-478-2210 620-478-2275 ---------Polled Hereford Bulls. Bred for Complete Performance. Fertility Tested and Guaranteed. DETTKE FARMS, Marysville Ks. Andy Dettke 785-268-0423 Brian 785-562-6257 ---------PREMIUM PUREBRED CHAROLAIS BULLS & COWS Top bloodlines w/ excellent selection at affordable prices. Accurate BW, WW, YW, pelvic measure, ultrasound & semen tested. Test results available on 11 years of Gene Star DNA testing for marbling, tenderness & feed efficiency, as well as performance test results. Great disposition & halter broke. These bulls are the home raised product of 49-years of progressive breeding success in the Sonderup Charolais program. Also have bred females & cow/ calf pairs. CONTACT Sonderup Charolais Ranch c/o Mark & Ryan Sonderup. 308-550-0486/cell. scrcharolais.com FULLERTON, NEBRASKA.

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600 HEAD BLACK replacement heifers, Montana origin, ready to go. Cell 785-673-9589 ---------POLLED HEREFORD BULLS: 2 yr. olds Low BW, Performance & Fertility Tested, Guaranteed, Free Delivery Available Matt Stucky, oakcreekph.com 620-386-0989 HESSTON, KANSAS ---------10 Simmental/Angus bred heifers. Calving February 20th. Extra nice set of quality, gentle heifers. 1100-1200 lbs. 316-323-8777 ----------

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High quality black Simmental bulls for sale. Priced right. Good blood lines. 316-323-8777 ---------12 RED ANGUS BULLS 21 months old, Never Locked Up, Raised on Grass, Heifer & Growth Bulls, Semen Trich, Hoft Red Angus. 785-472-3734, 785-472-1033 ELLSWORTH ---------Two year old Registered Red Angus Bulls for Sale - fertility tested, good disposition. 620-672-6934 or cell: 620-770-0593 ---------45 Angus 2nd calf bred spring calving cows. 3 & 4 year olds. 918-625-5689

Registered and Crossbred one year old Red Angus Heifers for sale. All shots. 620-672-6934 or cell: 620-770-0593 ---------Good quality Red Angus and crossbred 4-H Steer and Heifers FOR SALE. 620-672-6934 or cell: 620-770-0593 ---------15 Cross-bred cows, start calving Feb. 20. 620-491-2301 ---------Gelbvieh and Balancer Females, Breds, Pairs and open heifers. Myron Miller 620-314-0537 ---------Polled Hereford Bulls 21 months old, semen checked Good dispositions, Good EPD’s. 316-796-1977

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www.centrallivestockks.com Call today to consign your cattle Feed and water pens available for early arrivals 620-662-3371 Office or 620-727-0913 (Matt Hoffman) Hay Sale- Every Tuesday at 9:00a.m. Cattle Sale- Every Tuesday at 10:00a.m. Hog/Sheep/Goat Sale- Every 3rd Saturday Horse/Tack Sale every 1st Saturday

Tues., Feb 27th- Holstein Special Sat., Mar 3rd-Horse & Tack Sale Tues., Mar 6th-Cattle & Hay Sale Tues., Mar 13th-Calf/Yearling Special Sat., Mar 17th-Hog/Sheep/Goat Sale Tues., Mar 20th-Cattle & Hay Sale

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Stucky Ranch annual PRoduction Sale . WedneSday, MaRch 14, 2018 421 ne 70th ave. . kingMan, kanSaS . 1:00 PM

Stucky SunriSe 6833 . 18872624

Stucky croSSBow 6850 . 18872931

GAR Sunrise x Final Answer CED +14 / BW -1.2 / WW +72 / YW +118 MB +1.17 / RE +.65 / $W +75.60 / $B +159.76

Black Granite x Final Product CED +4 / BW +3.4 / WW +81 / YW +133 MB +.62 / RE +.51 / $W +81.39 / $B +177.36

Spring Cove Crossbow x Final Answer CED +14 / BW -.4 / WW +64 / YW +121 MB +.75 / RE +.34 / $W +57.17 / $B +156.25

Stucky renown P6709 . 18895759

Stucky eiSa erica 6197 . 18872551

Stucky eiSa erica 5440 . 18541542

Selling 20 Sunrise sons!

SAV Renown x Bismarck CED +8 / BW +1.9 / WW +73 / YW +127 MB +.31 / RE +.40 / $W +74.44 / $B +140.41 Selling 25 Renown & Resource sons!

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Stucky Black Granite 6919 . 18872608

Selling 25 Black Granite sons!

GAR Sunrise x Consensus 7229 CED +6 / BW +1.6 / WW +66 / YW +122 MB +1.01 / RE +.61 / $W +64.62 / $B +152.69 Superior genetic value with outstanding phenotype!

Selling 18 Crossbow sons!

Baldridge Willie x MCC Daybreak CED -2 / BW +4.2 / WW +87 / YW +155 MB +1.02 / RE +.85 / $W +60.01 / $B +188.71 Sells open & ready to flush with a fancy Commando heifer calf at side!

SELLING 150 14-18 month old registered Angus bulls 30 yearling registered Angus heifers 6 2&3 year old registered Angus donor cows with fall heifer calves at side embryo packages sired by Basin Payweight 1682 & Jindra Acclaim

Sires include: GAR Sunrise . Basin Payweight 1682 . Spring Cove Crossbow . GAR Prophecy Connealy Black Granite . SAV Renown . SAV Resource . Baldridge Jennings . WR Journey 1X74 . Connealy Ten Fold For a sale book and more information email [email protected] www.StuckyRanch.com . Gordon Stucky . (620) 532-4122

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Passing Of ‘This’ Bonnie And Clyde, Renowned Draft Pulling Team, Leaves Big Void For Loving Family Owners

“Bonnie and Clyde have died.” That’s old, yet still good news when heard repeated. Lawmen shot and killed the infamous bank robbing duo on May 23, 1934. Recent news is the same: “Bonnie and Clyde have died.” This is a bad, very sad report. “It was a tough day when Bonnie died on December 23, and then I found Clyde dead eight days later. I think he died from a broken heart.”

In deep melancholy, Cleve Beckman reflected loss of the renowned draft horse pulling team Bonnie and Clyde. “They were really quite a team. Bonnie and Clyde were nearly impossible to beat. That pair won major pulling matches all over the Midwest,” Cleve confirmed. Yet, the Mound City man was quick to advise: “The team belonged to my dad Merle. He was the one who made them so great. I just helped out.”

Merle quickly verified, “I’ve pulled a lot of horses in my lifetime, but Bonnie and Clyde truly had to be the best of all. They’re gone, we don’t have any more, but there’ll never be another team of pullers like Bonnie and Clyde.” Pulling horses is a family affair. “Merle bought Bonnie and Clyde after they’d beat his team over at a match in Missouri,” remembered Kendall Hutton of Welda. “Merle and I’ve been pulling teams since we were hooking ponies as kids,” added Hutton, Merle’s lifelong match traveling partner and brother-in-law. Hutton’s wife Joyce is twin sister to Gloria, Merle’s wife. “We all went to most of the matches. Bonnie and Clyde had so much

charisma. They always drew lots of attention and applause,” Gloria insisted. So it doesn’t appear strictly family bias, longtime Linn County Fair leader John Teagarden, LaCygne, verified: “I’ll tell you everybody knew Bonnie and Clyde. They might not have known Merle Beckman, but they knew that Belgian pulling team. “Bonnie and Clyde won the pull during the Linn County Fair at Mound City several times, but it was just one of many. The team was nearly impossible to be beat. Merle always had them fit and was sure there to win, too,” Teagarden confirmed. “I’ve never seen anybody with more passion for anything than Dad has for pulling horses,” Cleve inserted.

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MONDAY - HOGS & CATTLE THURSDAY - CATTLE Total for the Week- Cattle: 4071 Hogs: 43 Steers Heifers 300-400 $195.00 -- $210.00 300-400 400-500 $190.00 -- $203.00 400-500 500-600 $185.00 – $200.00 500-600 600-700 $170.00 – $183.25 600-700 700-800 $150.00 – $163.00 700-800 800-900 $136.00 – $150.00 800-900 900-1000 $130.00 -- $143.50 900-1000 Early Consignments for Thursday February 22nd 33 red and black steers and heifers, long time weaned, no implants, heifers guaranteed open, 550-700. 10 mostly black steers and heifers, long time weaned, no implants, heifers guaranteed open, 550650. 25 steers and heifers, 2nd Round vacc, long time weaned, 700-800. 69 steers and heifers, home raised, fall vacc, running out, no implants, 550-750. 100 black steers and heifers home raised, weaned, vacc, green, 500-700. 65 black heifers, no sort, 800. 44 mostly black steers and heifers, long time weaned, vacc, guaranteed open, 700-800. 7 steers, vacc, knife cut, 350-400.6 black steers and heifers, long time weaned, wormed, vacc, 650-700. 60 black steers and heifers, 700-800. 65 steers and heifers, 700-900. 62 black steers 850875. 16 steers and heifers 850-950. 120 steers 850. Early Consignments for Tuesday March 20th Special Cow Sale Heifer pairs 5/5 Balancer heifer pairs, Red Angus calves on side. 85/85 black heifer pairs, January and February calves, Angus calves, been worked. Replacement Heifers 30 black heifers, OCHV’d, pelvic exam, 750#+.

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Bonnie and Clyde were a handful for owner-trainer Merle Beckman, but that’s exactly the way he’d conditioned the team for winning draft horse pulls. “We started out pulling ponies all around the country, then went to big horses, had lots of teams over the years,” Merle said. “I’ve had four strokes, slowed me a bit, yet really fortunate to have had such a great last team Bonnie and Clyde. “I’d say they died from old age. Bonnie was down, got up, but died before the vet could get here. Clyde just could not live without her, and died eight days later,” Merle reiterated. Bonnie was a registered Belgian with papers verifying she was 21-years-old when passing. Clyde the gelding was thought to be three or four years older. “I’m pretty sure they were renamed, but they were Bonnie and Clyde when I got the team from Tommy Nichols. That’s what they’ve always been to us,” Merle said. Competing in the heavy division, Clyde was the left hand horse at about 2,100 pounds. A bit lighter, Bonnie weighed nearly a ton. “They pulled their best most of the time,” Merle credited. “Sometimes, Bonnie wanted to be a mare and wouldn’t give her all, but that really wasn’t very often.” Gloria insisted to get on the phone: “Bonnie was really a show horse. When they’d go in to hook she perked up and was ready to go. I just loved to watch that Bonnie at a match.” Yep, Bonnie and Clyde were champions, but they never had a life of leisure. “I worked them every day,” Merle said. “We’d hook at daylight and work until early afternoon. I generally wouldn’t work them

the day before a pull, so they’d be more ready and anxious.” Here’s where Cleve would come into the picture. Living right across the road from his parents, he said, “I’d help harness and hook the team every morning before I went to my real job.” With an elaborate track, there were various weight sleds used in the training program. Only Merle knew the precise regimen for best results. After daily training, exact routine continued as the team was unharnessed, hosed down, and cooled out with fresh hay in the barn. Merle’s horses always had the most nutritious feed to win, but only he knew the exact ration. “I fed oats, bran, corn chop, some vitamins; that kept them in good shape,” he claimed. Hutton intervened: “Bonnie and Clyde were hard as rocks. You’ll never find a team more prepared for a match than Merle had them.” Merle noted, “I’d usually keep the horses off water several hours before a match. They’d generally be more ready to pull and have a better weigh in.” Over the years exact timeframes and dates get a little shady varying from memory to memory. “You know I’m just not certain what year we got Bonnie and Clyde. Bonnie must have been about seven,” Merle calculated with Gloria’s input. Likewise, just how many match titles Bonnie and Clyde have claimed is not exact. “Most of them, but not everyone,” Merle admitted. (Continued on page 13)

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Riding Hard By Lee Pitts Hi ladies, it’s me, the wife of the slob who usually writes this column. He’s resting now, getting his beauty sleep and believe me, he needs all he can get. Unbeknownst to him, I’m taking over the column this week because what I have to say is much more important

than any gibberish he’d have written. Are you keeping up on all the reports of evil athletes, actors, politicians and businessmen who’ve been harassing and discriminating against women? Do you know who you haven’t heard one peep from? The wives of farmers and ranchers that’s who, and yet there is not a group in America who’s been harassed or discriminated against more than us. I consulted with an attorney who said we’d have a great discrimination case in court against our husbands but there’s one small problem. In his words, “You can’t get

any blood out of a turnip.” The attorney said we’d need to go after “deeper pockets” and suggested a class action lawsuit. To win we’d have to prove guilt in just one of the following areas: • Hostile work environment- Have you ever been yelled at because some cows leaked through the gap in the fence you were supposed to be blocking? Has your husband ever used foul language in your presence when you accidentally slammed the squeeze chute door on his hand or accidentally vaccinated him against lepto-vibrio? Do you work in a clean environment or are you constantly being bombarded by cow poop? Has he left you in a seedy motel room without feed or water while he went to “an important committee meeting” in a saloon? Are you referred to as “hired help”or a “peon?” If so, you’re rights have been violated.

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• Missed meals and potty breaks- While on a bull buying trip in your car you informed your husband you needed to pull over at the next rest stop for a bio-break did he tell you to just “hold it”? That’s criminal abuse! If you are not given an hour for lunch and at least two breaks lasting 15 minutes you need to be suing someone. • Pregnancy discrimination- Did you get six months maternity leave prior to having your last child and were you also given six months after the baby’s birth? Or, instead were you given one of those backward papoose thingies with your baby strapped to the front of your body and put back on a horse or tractor one week after popping out the kid? If so, you should be squalling louder than Meryl Streep about having been abused. • Working off the clock- I know what you’re thinking,

what clock? Since you don’t punch a clock to begin with proving this could be difficult. Unpaid overtime compensation is also included under this heading and would include any work before 7:30 or after 4:30. Were you paid triple time last Christmas when you fed the cows in a blizzard? Also, you should be getting at least minimum wage for keeping the house and raising the kids while also performing your daily chores. • Disability discriminationRemember when your husband asked you to hold a post while he pounded it with a sledge hammer and he missed badly but you weren’t given sufficient time to recover from your broken arm? That’s disability discrimination. So was that time you were fixing fence and you had to ride in the Bobcat bucket with the wire and the posts and your hubby hit a rock and bounced you out of the bucket and then

ran over the top of you but you weren’t even given the rest of the day off. • Wrongful terminationMost women I know would love to be fired by their husbands. Comrade sisters, if you’ve been abused you may be eligible for what’s left after the male attorneys take their $290 billion cut out of a $300 billion class action lawsuit. You’re going to need the money because having done all this free work means you’ll have no Social Security or an IRA to fall back on when, after 43 years of wedded bliss, your husband trades you in for a newer model. I hear my hubby stumbling about so that’s all for now. Let’s keep this just between us ladies for now. And remember, WE SHALL OVERCOME! Someday. (Maybe). wwwLeePittsbooks.com

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• Selling 55 Angus Bulls Falls & Yearlings sired by SAV Renown, Capitalist, Conquest, Greeley and Tour of Duty • 6 Charolais Bulls sired by Easy Blend & WC Benell

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Legs Sure Are Important “She has good legs.” Somehow it seemed an ornery mentor professor’s jive when congratulating him on engagement and upcoming marriage. Thinking of the comment numerous times since Dr. Norton, dairy team coach, was in most seriousness about his bride-to-be. Being just out of college going rambunctious with a young family and pursuing dual careers, being able to get around well was no concern. It certainly was to a professor looking to retirement with pleasures and enjoyment intended. Well, the comment of nearly a half century ago

has hit home. After one of the best years ever competing in local horse shows, everything seemed fine in early October. Then all of a sudden the Big Man upstairs showed his power, whatever it was: “Slow down.” Never having much any pain in a lifetime, despite falling off way too many times, all of a sudden the left knee hurt. “Oh, it’s just imagination.” Maybe so, but it still hurt, and seemed to be getting worse. “It’s just in the head, get the work done, quit complaining.” Never had been to a back cracker, but more than one suggested that was

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though. Next thing, the right knee hurt too, and the medicine man verified no imagination old man, there’s bone and against bone. The only way to fix that is get them replaced. “Well, that’s a major ordeal, there are horses to ride.” Nothing’s ever going to improve, so best get it taken care of now. Well, two hours under the knife, woke up, walked that day, walking daily. “He has good legs.” Reminded of Proverbs 26:7: “Like the legs which are useless to the lame, so is a proverb in the mouth of a fool who cannot learn from its wisdom.”

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Kansas Hay Market Report Ground alfalfa movement: Southwest/South Central Tonnage: 10,324/4,926 Last week: 9,217/4,515

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Hay market activity moderate; Demand good for both grinding alfalfa and grass hay. Alfalfa supplies continue to dwindle and buyers are actively searching for all qualities. Grass hay inquiries have increased. Prices overall are generally steady with grinding alfalfa continuing to strengthen. Once again, northern counties were the recipients of snow fall. Unfortunately, current drought conditions continue to expand. The abnormally dry (D0) category is at 100 pct, moderate drought (D1) is at 62 pct, severe drought (D2) is at 36 pct and extreme drought (D3) remains at 9 pct. If you have hay for sale, and/or need hay here in Kansas, use the services of the Internet Hay Exchange: www. hayexchange.com/ks.php. Southwest Kansas Dairy alfalfa, grass hay, grinding alfalfa and ground/delivered steady; movement moderate. Alfalfa: horse, small squares 240.00-250.00. Dairy, .85-.95/point RFV, Supreme 155.00-175.00, Premium 155.00-165.00, Good 135.00-155.00. Stock or Dry Cow alfalfa, 115.00-125.00. Fair/Good grinding alfalfa, 130.00-140.00 with an instance at 150.00. Ground and delivered locally to feedlots and dairies, 145.00-165.00 with an instance at 165.00. Grass hay: Bluestem large squares 80.00-90.00. The week of 2/4-2/10, 10,324T of grinding alfalfa and 2,094T of dairy alfalfa were delivered. Cornstalks: large rounds 55.00-65.00, ground and delivered 70.00-75.00. The average paid by feedlots on February 1 for alfalfa ground and delivered was 143.21, up 5.89 from last month, usage was 742T/ day, dn 8 pct, and total usage was 23,007T. South Central Kansas Dairy alfalfa, grass hay, alfalfa pellets, stock cow and ground/delivered steady, grinding alfalfa steady to 5.00 higher; movement moderate. Alfalfa: horse, small squares 240.00-245.00. Dairy, .90-.95/point RFV. Supreme 155.00-165.00, Premium 150.00-160.00, Good 130.00-150.00. Stock cow alfalfa, 135.00-140.00 delivered. Fair/Good grinding alfalfa, 110.00-125.00 with instance at 130.00. Ground and delivered locally to feedlots 135.00-145.00. Alfalfa pellets: Sun Cured 15 pct protein 175.00-180.00, 17 pct protein 180.00-190.00, Dehydrated 17 pct 207.00-217.00. The week of 2/4-2/10, 4,926T of grinding alfalfa and 933T of dairy alfalfa were delivered. Grass hay: bluestem, large squares 80.00-90.00, large rounds 65.00-75.00; Oat hay, large squares 95.00-100.00, Sudan large rounds 70.00-75.00. Cornstalks: large rounds 55.00-60.00, cornstalks ground and delivered 60.00-70.00, Straw mid to large squares 50.00-65.00. The average paid by feedlots on February 1 for alfalfa ground and delivered was 134.39, up 2.60 from last month, usage was 401T/day, up 20 pct, and total usage was 12,437T. Southeast Kansas Dairy alfalfa, grass hay, grinding alfalfa, ground/delivered and horse/goat steady; movement slow to moderate. Alfalfa: horse or goat, 215.00-225.00. Dairy .80-.90/point RFV. Stock cow alfalfa

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2/21/2018

Pratt

Equipment Sells At Approximately 11:00 AM, Real Estate Sells at Noon

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Pratt

Pratt Kansas - Dry Cleaning Business Liquidation

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2/21/2018

Partridge

JOHN DEERE TRACTORS, FARM MACHINERY, CATTLE EQUIPMENT & ANTIQUES

Floyd Auction & Real Estate

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2/21/2018

Andover

Carnival Equipment – Trucks – Shop Equipment - Rides, Bunk House, Trucks, Trailers

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2/21/2018

Kearney

Special Calf & Feeder Auction

Huss Livestock Market, LLC

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2/22/2018

Wichita

Former Bar/Restaurant w/Walk In Cooler, Absolute Sale

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2/22/2018

Mount Hope

1 ,1 34 SqFt house, with two bedrooms and one bath

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2/22/2018

Augusta

320+/- Acres, 4 Individual Tracts, Augusta, Kansas, Investment Land For Sale

Sundgren Realty

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2/23/2018

Wichita

FRIDAY NIGHT AUCTION!

Bud Palmer Auctions

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2/24/2018

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(Continued from page 9) Incomplete records show Bonnie and Clyde won 74 pulls with Merle on the lines. “Cleve drove them some. He won the last match with Bonnie and Clyde about seven years ago,” dad Merle credited. “That must be a record for wins by a Kansas draft horse team?” Teagarden inquired. “It surely won’t ever be matched in this day and age.” Be hard to name which was the most prestigious win. “Dad won the Kansas State Fair several times with different teams, but Bonnie and Clyde won it five times straight. That was a pretty big deal,” Cleve insisted. Championships were claimed in Kansas, Oklaho-

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ma, Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa maybe other states. Trophies throughout the Beckman home verify the accomplishments with only a check of engravings to know when and where. “We’d pull at Tulsa one day, Oklahoma City or Stillwater the next night and not get back home until 4 o’clock that next morning, and I still had to be work by 8 o’clock,” Cleve remembered. “It was sure worth it seeing Dad and everybody enjoying themselves so much,” he added. Bonnie and Clyde have been in retirement of recent, under watchful eyes and daily care from Merle, Gloria and Cleve. Although not with hands on the lines, Merle and everyone in the family still get biggest thrill from draft horse pulls. “We’ll drive ten hours over to Kentucky just to watch a match and then back home again. That’s what we love to do,” driver Cleve commented. A team in life, Bonnie and Clyde are buried side by side in the yard at Merle and Gloria Beckman’s place near Mound City. “I probably won’t have any more horses, but we were all so fortunate to have Bonnie and Clyde,” Merle declared.

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As I’ve been working on amor fati, I’ve been paying more attention to the thoughts I enteris well-known for his tain, and the words I (usually misunderspeak. Give it a try for stood) “God is dead” statement, but those of a few days. You’ll be you who are Christians surprised, if you’re anywhere near as terrible can embrace the wisas I, how much garbage dom here as well. If is floating around in you believe Christian the old thought pipes. dogma then you believe you will stand How much bile leaks out from the heart’s before “the dread Judgement Seat” of the overflow. And, well, that’s a Alpha and Omega, and whole other topic, but surely this is something like peering with here’s the point: I’m realizing that I must eternal eyes on the be really exasperatentirety of your life. We should strive to bring as little shame to that moment as we can in the time remaining to us.

Amor fati By Tony Woodlief The thing about babies is they don’t care about your big plans. This past year I’ve had occasion to laugh at myself many times, a man like me, middle-aged and rooted in habit, suddenly a father again of newborns. Yes, that’s plural. Twins. Boys, of course, because for the rest of my life it seems I am slated to have people ask me why I don’t have a girl. So for those of you keeping score at home, that’s six boys total. I’ll let you pause to catch your breath. God knows I need to catch mine. Like I was saying, I’ve had many occasions to laugh at myself, but I haven’t always taken advantage of them. The truth is it’s been really, really hard. Back before my first marriage ended and I had friends I spent time with, one of them, upon hearing me lay out my woes about a stalled writing career, smiled and told me, “You’re experiencing the death of a vision.” This was not very comforting, and I told him as much. “No,” he said, “you don’t understand. Look at Abraham. Moses. Jacob. Do you think any of them had their lives work out the way they’d planned? Sometimes our vision has to die, so that God can bring us into the one fitted to us.” That’s not exactly how he put it—there were a lot of interruptions from me, and he wasn’t that poetical at the end, but it’s my story and I’ll tell it how I want and the point is I think he was right. But man, it’s hard to watch your vision die. So lately I’ve been really striving to follow Nietzsche’s dictum: Amor fati—“love your fate.” Many people have articulated this better than me, but you can boil it down to this: Live your life in such a way that you can repeat every moment of it for eternity without shame or regret. Nietzsche

ing to God. I say that because I hear myself saying things that in one way or another he’s been telling me for decades. As I struggle to push a chubby arm through a shirt sleeve: Stop fighting me, I’m trying to help you. As I drag an imp away from the woodpile: Why are you always trying to get somewhere you shouldn’t be? As I fend off four fat grasping hands when

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trying to grab the spoon I’m using to feed him: Quit trying to do it yourself; you’re only making it take longer. As I lift them, squawking, from the (Continued on page 15)

February 21, 2018 (Continued from page 14) fireplace: I’m just trying to keep you alive long enough for you to get some sense. And, as I repeat all these a hundred times a day, in addition to parenting my older boys, I find myself thinking this, like a litany: Why are you so stubborn, so stubborn,

Page 15 so damnably stubborn? You could fill a sermon with the things I say to babies, and play it back for me every day. Sometimes I think the things I want my children to learn would root better if they found more fruition in me. And then I think: How long, dear God, have you been trying

with me, and when will you finally lose patience? I formed early in life an image of the fierce and vengeful Almighty, and it’s hard to reconcile that with love, you see. Burying a child made it so much harder. And all those earlier admonitions aside, I think that’s the truth

I’ve had the greatest struggle letting in, this truth about love. And then I am holding a baby by a window, saying good morning to the sun, to the trees, to the birds congregating in the trees. Look at what God made for us. He smiles, and this is the lesson I most want him to remember, and to believe for myself as well: You are loved. You are loved. No matter what comes, you are loved.

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CSA Day Offers Second Chance for New Year’s Resolutions Celebrate Community-Supported Agriculture on Feb. 23 with ICT Food Circle Wichita, Kansas - Are and the produce is either quality of fresh fruits and • being kind to our on February 23, and use & Extension-Sedgwick your New Year’s resoludelivered to your door or vegetables for their famiplanet; the hashtag #CSAday to County started managing tions already in the rearly, while supporting their you pick it up at a local • learning something join the online conversathe program in spring of view mirror? If so, you’re tion. local farmer. distribution center. CSA new; and 2017. Learn more about not alone, but you still “We have several local According to Small members take pleasure in • being adventurous in our local food producers have time to make good CSAs,” says Rebecca Mc- and how to buy local at Farm Central’s CSA knowing where and how the kitchen. Mahon, horticulture agent www.ictfoodcircle.org. on those resolutions. ICT Farming Annual Report, their food is grown, and CSA (community-supported agriculture) is a with K-State Research Food Circle is pleased the most popular time to typically have an open Follow us on Facebook subscription to a season’s & Extension-Sedgwick to band together with join a CSA each year is line of communication at www.facebook.com/ worth of sustainable, loCounty. “Each CSA is farms and organizations at the end of February. To with their farmer. ictfoodcircle to get weekly cally grown produce that for the third annual CSA promote this important “Community-supported a little bit different and updates on what is in seais distributed to members time for farmers, CSA Day agriculture is all about you can compare them to Day on February 23. Join son and see features from throughout the harvestfind which will best meet other like-minded people was coined, and each year relationships and feeding local farmers. ing season. It is a form your needs. CSAs aren’t around the country who it falls on the last Friday families,” said Simon About Small Farm Cenof investment that allows for everyone, but they are tral and CSA Day are committed to: in February. It’s an entire Huntley, CEO of Small a great way to support a • eating healthful foods small farmers to continue day dedicated to the Farm Central, a company In 2006, Simon Huntley growing on a scale that local farmer and experiand preparing them for celebration of communithat provides marketing combined his passion for ty-supported it falls on the support for small farms ence the range of local may not be sustainable their families; helping small farmers and last Friday in February. produce. You can learn • supporting their local without the CSA model. and started CSA Day. his experience in technolIt’s an entire day dediabout some of our local CSA members enjoy the farmer; “CSA farmers typically ogy to found Small Farm cated to the celebration CSA farms by visiting teach members what’s Central. The organization of community-supported the Local Food Directory in season throughout serves the technology need it most for the grow- the year, and help them on the ICT Food Circle needs of small business ing season. website at www.ictfoodcir- farmers, including webappreciate and cook food cle.org.” Getting food from a to which they may not sites, ecommerce, CSA About ICT Food Circle CSA is different from otherwise be exposed.” member management and ICT Food Circle was going to a farmers marHow to Get Involved marketing tools. Small ket or using a grocery started in 2015 with with CSA Day Farm Central coined CSA delivery service. As a the goal of connecting If you would like to Day in February 2015 to CSA member, you make a celebrate CSA Day and local food producers with celebrate local agriculture seasonal commitment to a support a local farm and consumers in the Wichita among CSA members and small farmer in your area, CSA, sign up for a share area. K-State Research farmers. Small Farm Central has worked with more than 1,000 farms across the U.S. and Canada. For more information, please Specializing In Older JD Tractors visit www.smallfarmcenAll tractors go through shop tral.com and www.csaday. info. & Dyno tested prior to sale For more information on JD Air Seeders & No-Till Drill Repair & Service local CSAs and ICT Food *Work done on your farm *Satisfaction Guaranteed Circle, call Rebecca Mc*Very Experienced Technicians Mahon at 316-660-0142 or e-mail rmcmahon@ksu. www.jacksqualityusedequipment.com edu.

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800-205-5751 Yellow Field Pea Seed, $16/bushel, germination tested. Free delivery on semi loads within 100 miles of Oberlin, KS. Contact Lee 620-672-4490 ---------CRP MIXES Quotes for Winter and Spring planting. Free shipping, Feyh Farm Co., Alma, Ks. 866-765-3415/ 785-765-4681 Fax ---------OPEN POLLINATED SEED CORN $67, out produces hybrids for silage & grazing. Highly nutritious grain. 217-857-3377 Teutopolis, IL ---------**GRASS SEED: Iron Master, WW Spar, Plains, B-Dahl, Little Bluestem and many more. For best pricing call Moss Seed Company. 580-334-7842 ---------BUYING DAIRY QUALITY ALFALFA & GRINDING HAY, large squares and rounds, semi loads only 620-285-1278, 620-285-5100 LARNED ---------HAY SALE, SATURDAYS @ 10AM, 2147 E NORTHVIEW, MCPHERSON, KS. 620-755-2828 620-654-3898 ----------

COMING SOON IN MEMPHIS, MO!! LARGE MACHINERY CONSIGHMENT AUCTION FRIDAY MARCH 9, 2018 - 8:00 AM 1 mile west of Memphis Mo. on HWY 136 Ph# 660-883-5501

• 100+ Tractors • 20+ Combines & Heads

• 40+ Planters & Drills • 40+ Skidsteers

Many more items expected!! • Construction • Loaders • Brushcutters • Manure Handling • Hay & Forage Equip • Grain Handling Equip • Sprayers & Applicatiors • Trucks & Trailers • Tillage Equip. Including: • Vertical Tillage • Field Cultivators • Disks • Row Cultivators • Chisels & Rippers • Plows

Buyers from 10 different states expected!! Make plans to attend!

We will be selling 3 Auctions Rings!! Many itmes selling absolute! Financing available as low as 3.75% to qualified customers. Call for details! Stop by our website www.edsmachinery.com for pictures and info. Can’t make it to the auction? View complete listing and Bid on Proxi-Bid.

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1992 Bobcat 643 28.5 hp, diesel, $2089,3000 hrs. Call 316-413-3751 SHAWNEE

---------LARGE SELECTION of new, used, & rebuilt TRACTOR PARTS, IH, JD, MM, MH, AC, OLIVER & others. We ship daily. Please call 217-370-1149 --------------John Deere 1050 cultivator with Harrows $4,500 316-772-1146

KS REP: Kevin Ford 620-290-1963 -----------WINDPOWER KATOLIGHT Standby Alternators, Service, Buy Sell. For questions or Parts call Daren Drouhard. 886-845-1046/cell 620-845-0140

423 AC in 4 Tracts, Sumner Co. KS TILLABLE | GRASS & POND | RECREATIONAL

AUCTION: Tues, March 13, 7pm Raymond Frye, 320 N Jefferson, Wellington KS

TRACT 1: 156± Ac SW of South Haven; NE/4 Sec 9-T35-R1W; 149 ac †llable, 7 ac grass; cash rent to Buyer. ELIZABETH ALTHOUSE TRUST, Seller TRACT 2: 78.6 Ac near Hwy 44 & S Argonia Rd; S/2 NE/4 Sec 20-T33-R4W; 75.6 ac †llable; 1/3 wheat crop to buyer; seller retains 50% minerals for 10 yrs. LONDA FISCHER, ALVIN WILLIAMS, KEVIN WILLIAMS, Sellers TRACT 3: 83.23 near Hwy 44 & Blackstone Rd; W/2 NE/4 Sec 30-T33-R4W; all †llable; 1/3 wheat crop to buyer; seller retains 50% minerals for 10 yrs. LONDA FISCHER, ALVIN WILLIAMS, KEVIN WILLIAMS, Sellers TRACT 4: 105± Ac east of South Haven; W/2 NW/4 Sec 21-T34-R1E; 29 ac †llable, 76 ac grass, pond, recrea†on site w/electric meter perfect for recrea†onal and hun†ng; 1/3 wheat crop to buyer. MICHAEL & TINA ANDRA, Sellers

Farm Machinery

We buy all ferrous & non-ferrous metals! FARM CLEAN-UP Travel up to 100 miles! WANTED: any used farm equip, irrigation pipe/pivots, oil field pipe/equip, vehicles, radiators, motors, batteries, etc. Call - JOE VOEGELI 316-650-0327 Mt. Hope, KS ---------NEW AND USED TRACTOR PARTS John Deere 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 &55 series & newer (No 2-Cylinder) Allis Chalmers-all models. Large Inventory! We Ship. Mark Heitman, Tractor Salvage. 715-673-4829 Durand, WI. HEITMAN TRACTORSALVAGE. COM

Farm Machinery Aggressively buying antique tractors. Good prices paid for all makes & models in all conditions. Please call 217-370-1149 ---------New Holland Bale Wagons. Sell/Buy. All self-propelled/ pull type models/parts/ tires/manuals. Can deliver/finance/trade. 208-880-2889 balewagon.com. ------------------JC 750C DOZER, NEW UNDER CARRIAGE, cab air, $37,000. Can Deliver. 816-225-1152 ---------2017 Case IH 75C Tractor, MFD 4WD -WITH 2017 CASE IH L620 LOADER with skid steer quick attach 84 inch bucket - Only 130 hrs. -Factory Warranty till 10/30/19 - Deluxe Cab with air/ heat and radio -12x12 Power Shuttle -75 HP -$49,500 620-357-8686 ---------John Deere 5085E with loader, $39,750 316-619-7300

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BALER BELTS Made in U.S.A. For All Balers. Diamond Top w/

We are a parts dealer for MACDON, BUSH HOG, & BRILLION. We also have new & used parts for MF, Hesston, Krause Universal Reels and Bush Hog. We supply filters, chains and hydraulic hoses. We now have our parts online through Fastline.com

Genuine JD Plate Fasteners Call 1-800-223-1312 www.balerbelts andaccessories. com

1300 GRAIN CART w/ scales and tarp, excellent condition: 1300 with floater tires, scale and tarp; 1300 on tracks with scale and tarp. 712-579-1825 HARLAN, IA ---------Krause 8000 30ft. excellerator, like new, $51,900 OBO. SORENSEN EQUIPMENT. 712-579-1825 HARLAN, IA ---------HORSCH 370, 37ft. high speed disk, good condition. $59,000 obo. 712-579-1825 HARLAN, IA ----------

Howards, INC 601 N Ohio Mt. Hope, Ks 316-667-2381 316-661-2552

---------75 Chevy Tandem 20-foot bed, 366 motor, Allison Automatic $10,500 316-772-1146 ---------WANTED: SPRACOUPES for salvage, (3430/3630) 785-547-7711

Triple K Auction

Taking Consignments for Machinery Auction March 10 at new location: 523 4th Avenue, Inman Ks. Kevin K. Krehbiel Auctioneer/Broker Your Complete Auction Service 523 4th Ave. Inman, KS 67546 Cell: 620-386-0650 [email protected]

Now taking consignments for the 48th Annual Kingman Co. Young Farmers Farm and Ranch Consignment Auction

Monday, March 19, 2018 Demand is good for all types of Farm and Ranch Equipment. Please have consignments in by Monday, February 26 for Best Advertising! To Consign, Contact Austin Kinsler 620-532-6659 Jason Belt 620-532-6380 Mike Floyd 620-532-4144 or any Kingman Co. Young Farmers Member

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Spring Turkey Permits Available Over-the-counter and Online March 1 PRATT -– Everyone likes a good sale, and hunters are no exception. That’s why the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism is giving turkey hunters the equivalent of an “early bird special” (pun intended) by offering discounted spring turkey permit/game tag combos through March 31. Hunters who purchase spring turkey combos between March 1 and March 31 can save $7.50 when compared to purchasing the spring turkey permit and turkey game tag separately after

Farm Machinery For Sale: Upgraded 4020 Diesel John Deere Tractor, in Good Condition, single battery operation and block heater $12,000/obo. 316-640-2767 ---------04 R75 RWA $59,500, 94 R62, $21,500, (2) L2’s $8,500, Krause 33’ FC $5,250, Baker 24’ Disk, $12,500; New GP 7329 Disk, Call; Call 81 Farm Equipment. 620-241-3100 ---------1977 Ford F700 Diesel, tanden axle, 18ft. bed & hoist, good engine, rubber. $16,500. 405-494-8302 jacksqualityused equipment.com ---------2012 Kubota M135GX, 4WD, 5890 hrs. power shift w/LHR, new 7ft. bucket, 3pt. & PTO work properly. $41,900. 405-494-8302 jacksqualityused equipment.com. ---------2006 Case IH Steiger 385 HD, 4100 hrs. 4WD, very good unit, $75,600. 405-494-8302 jacksquality usedequipment.com. ---------2005 Case IH STX375HD, 11,150 hrs. 4WD, highly fuel efficient. Call. 405-494-8302 jacksqualityused equipment.com. -------------------WANTED: junk cars, farm machinery, old combines, tractors, implements, etc. also catalytic converters, alum wheels, radiators, aluminum pipe. Scrap License #16-010370. 316-650-7482 ANDALE ----------

March 31. 2018 SPRING TURKEY SEASON DATES YOUTH/DISABLED SEASON: APRIL 1-17, 2018 ARCHERY SEASON: APRIL 9-17, 2018 REGULAR SEASON: APRIL 18 - MAY 31, 2018

Any resident or nonresident hunter may purchase a turkey permit (good for one bearded turkey) valid in units 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. Hunters with a spring turkey permit are eligible to purchase one spring turkey game tag (good for one additional bearded turkey)

valid only in units 1, 2, 3, 5, and 6. In addition to a turkey permit and game tag, spring turkey hunters must also possess a valid Kansas hunting license, unless exempt by law. For more on the Kansas spring turkey season, visit ksout-

doors.com/Hunting/Applications-and-Fees

PRAIRIE BUILDING SYSTEMS, INC. • Agricultural • Commercial • Residential

Metal Frame & Wood Frame Buildings 10423 W. Dutch Avenue, Moundridge • 620-327-2798 [email protected] • Charles Dyck - Sales

Turn Key Construction Services

February 21, 2018 (1Continued from page 1) wet and slippery. That’s when they opt to drife their Cheap. A Cheap is a 4-wheel drife vehicle. Drife dat Cheap

Page 21 down dat @#$&**# wet wrote (road) right now and don’t get him stuck. Nearly all inanimate objects are referred to in the male pronoun.

Disc Rolling & Sharpening

When they finish Sunday worship services, and with color in their language like that, they certainly need religion – just kidding – some of the folks of Hace like to eat at one particular chigan (domestic fowl) house. There they have frite (cooked in grease) chigan ant frice (and French-fried potatoes). They also like to eat bret (bread) ant chelly (fruit preserves). I can still remember my Uncle Alex telling me at the dinner table when I was a boy of five, “Eat dis bret ant chelly sandwich what I figs’d (fixed) for you.” Sometimes after eating too much Sunday dinner, Hace residents had to take pilts (med-

ication) – especially after too much beer. That’s when they might have a het (part of the body above the neck) ache. Take dese pilts for dat het ache. Sonofapitch’ was an often-spoken exclamation that tumbled liberally out of the mouths of members of the male sex in Hace. “Sonofapitch’ its hot out here boyce (boys, men).” Chunk (junk) is something almost everyone in Hace has at one time or another and it is better than trash. Haul dat chunk over by (to) da dump. &*#%dam’mitahell (another exclamation). Wint (moving air currents) blowing heart (strong, powerful) can

often be found in Hace. Most residents keep their carse in a garot’ch (building). The word toged’her actually means just the opposite – apart. &*#%dam’mitahell dat wint blew so heart last night, my garot’ch all fell toged’her. Now my all-time favorite story is about this long-time Hace stockman who tells about driving out to his pasture one morning to look at his course. Here’s how he told his tale: “I drove my pigup out in the grass. I drove down the hill by my windmill up the hill and over by da fence line, back down another hill,

Recent Sales

Anthony Youngers 316-648-4634

Arlene Fasbender 316-210-3604

Pam Day 316-641-2454

Jami Viner 785-550-6203

John Hillman 316-619-9500

208 N Harrison - Cheney 1002 E 6th Ave - Cheney 160+- acres improved - Cheney/Suppesville 16618 NE 20th - Cheney 80 acres - Cheney/Garden Plain 40 Acres - Garden Plain/Andale 121 W B Ave - Garden Plain 160 acres - Cheney/Garden Plain 160 acres - south of Cheney 160 acres - south of Cheney 80 acres - Garden Plain/Viola 160 acres - Garden Plain/Viola 80 acres - west of Cheney Lake 80 acres - Greenwood County 320 acres - Greenwood County 804 Allison - Newton 2 home lots - Cheney 131 S 5th St - Colwich 11032 SE 130th Ave - Norwich 216 E 6th - Cheney 510 S Ohio - Mount Hope 1921 N Shelly Rd - Wichita Plus a number of pending transactions!

These are our sales for the last two months of 2017! Let us explain our marketing program that gives you tremendous local and internet web exposure at a reasonable cost. Now is a great time to sell! We want your listing! List your property today and it will be available to all South-central Kansas REALTORS tomorrow! LOCAL EXPERTISE - REGIONAL INFLUENCE - NATIONAL MARKETING

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through the creek and back up again. When I reached the top of the hill, dere de vere (momma cows) – GONE! I’m out of here too. Tanks for reading and hope you enjoy Valentine’s Day and all the upcoming Holidace. Sometimes we get requests. Recently a couple close friends and I were discussing taking care of livestock during winter when this task can be a down-right chore. Well once you lay out all the cons, the conversation generally takes a 180 degree turn and you wind up talking about the humorous or lighter moments as well. In doing so, we stumbled onto the subject of how some of the folks around Hays speak. Here’s a column I wrote just for fun back in December of 2004. Enjoy.

Shuck Implement

MF 2706 E w/L135E Loader (2015) 130 Eng Hrs, Like New Hydrostat Trans, 1 Rear Remote, Wheel Weights, L135E Loader, W/72” HD Bucket with Tooth Bar, 3rd Function installed on loader (no grapple), Bale Spear, Extra Bolt on Tooth Bar for Loader Bucket, War expires 3/10/18 on Tractor 3/10/18 Power Train….$26,900 Hesston 9260 SP Windrow (2006) 2,008 Eng Hrs, Cummins Engine, 9075 Rotary Headwer 15ft…$42,500 Farm King Hy Capacity Rake........$11,000 Utility Service Bed$1900 OBO White 2-62 FL Forklift – High Lift, Extra Good Condition, Reverse-O-Torc, 6 Cyl Diesel, few hours on Overhaul…$6,500 Michelin Agribib Radial Tire Set, pair 380/90 (14.9) R46 R1W on rims for Cast Centers (no centers); Pair 380/85R30 R1W on Waffle Wheels off of 2013 MF 7615 w/765 hrs. $3,900. Woods PRD7200 Finish Mower (2013) Barely Used, MF Red Brand 72” Wide Premium…...$1,900 E-Z Trail GC37 Header Transport, Red, 37’, Lights, Brakes, Straps CONSIGNED 2015 MF 3710 Manual Spreader, 175 Bu, Lightly Used…$9,500 Kubota M6-111 GrandX-Cab, PFA (2016), 24x24 Intellishift, Power Shuttle, Grill Guard, (75 hrs) AM/FM/ CD Stereo, Rear Worklight, HD Metal Fuel Tank Guard, Deluxe Self Canceling Detent Valve, 3 Remotes…$59,900 Just In 64” Wide, Ser#2142 Diamond Side Mount Rotary Mower, Hydraulic Dr WE & Lift MF 1839 Small Square Baler (2010) Hyd Bale Tension, Hyd PU, 50,000 Bales – Fully Recond, Harvest Tech Hay Boss Preservative System…$ 1 9 , 9 0 0 MF 2856A Round Baler (2012) 3,947 Bales, Twine & Mesh, Fully Auto Cycle with On Board Hydraulics, Hyd Pickup, Fire Extinguisher, C1000 Monitor, Service and Ready to Go Coming In ASV SR80 Compact Track Loader (2006) 2,000 Hrs, Enclosed Cab, Tracks 80-90%, Undercarriage Recond

800-654-5191 Lawrence, KS

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2013 JD 569 Premium round Baler w/17,000 bales. $20,000. 2009 568 JD round baler, 22,000 bales on it, $10,000 obo. 620-282-0004. ---------Tree Saw for Skid Loader or Tractor, $2500. CVR mfg., 620-763-2500 ---------4020 John Deere with loader and joystick. 145 John Deere loader off of 4010 John Deere. 316-641-6639 ---------Tractors, 1998 Peterbilt Cat motor, 13 spd., aluminum trailers, ready to work. Serious inquiries only, Please call 712-370-0087 ---------IH 1460 Combine, good for parts. $2,000. 620-381-3254 BURNS, KS. ---------1982 JD 8640, 7600 hrs. 500 hrs. on overhaul. PTO, 3 scv’s, duals, very good, $21,800. 620-200-0435. ---------Case IH Magnum 110 with Case L740 Loader, 954 Actual HRs, like new tractor $74,500. 405-494-8302 jacksqualityused equipment.com. ---------VERSATILE SUITCASE WEIGHTS and Weight Bolt Plates for late model tractors. 402-427-7756 ---------835 Versatile, $17,500;....895 Versatile, $19,500;... 1990 946 Versatile, 5400 hrs, with 30.5x32 duals, $35,000;... 1755 Oliver, $7500;... 2360 Versatile, 5500 hrs, really clean. Helten Farm Repair 316-943-0203 ---------Wanted: Native Grass DRILLS or native grass drill boxes only. 20ft. to 30ft. 3 pt. Drill. Roller 12ft. to 20ft. Fertilizer plant. Pull tongue/caddy/trailer w/3pt. hookup. Office/ Voicemail 641-766-6790 or Cell/ Text 641-340-0294 [email protected] johno@ iowatelecom.net ---------Older Farm Machinery Liquidation Sale, Make Offer- Tractors, Combines, Grain Drills, Tillage, Hay Equipment, Model #977-K Cat Track Dozer, Big A 2600 Field Sprayer. 620-921-0320 Haven. ---------1972 JD 4620, $16,500. 785-747-8239

IH 1026 Hydro w/Cab, Farmhand 228 Loader 7’-8’ Buckets, Good Condition. 620-382-4829 ---------16’ Kraus Tandem Pull Type Disc, Needs Some Repair, Very Wide Set Dual Wheels. 316-772-5057 ---------2005 JD5425; 65 Hp; 4wd; with loader / bale spear. $17,500 316-251-1619 ---------Wanted: Gleaner F series combine and four row corn head 316-747-2749 ---------Pro Ag 16K BALE RUNNER, remote, perfect condition, no leaks. 620-353-7394 ULYSSES, KS.

AC 190 diesel, runs good, needs some repair, $2000. 620-212-3363 620-431-1012 Two tractors, planter, and mower 2 Allis Chalmers C’s with planter and sickle mower 580-430-9405 ALVA, OK ---------Rare John Deere 830 Industrial JD 830 Industrial. Pony Motor Runs and drives great! $18,500 580-430-9405 ALVA, OK ------------------1972 JD 4620, $16,500, Oliver 550 $2,250. 785-747-8239 JD 4020 Wheatland Diesel Cab Duals 5110 hrs. $5,000 620-921-0025

550 JD Mulch Master chisel, 30ft setup for anhydrous, cooler, w/ Raven 440 rake controller. 620-431-8449 New Holland Bale Wagon Tull Type in 44 - hauls 120 bales $4,500 620-358-3432 ---------790 John Deere 4x4 Tractor with Ldr $13,250 Kubota L4300F Tractor with Ldr - $14,500 4040 John Deere Tractor with Cab and Ldr $23,500 4430 John Deere Tractor with Cab and Air - $15,700 753 Bobcat - $9,850 CAT 426B Backhoe - $22,500 RIGGS TRACTOR COMPANY 620-736-2038 620-583-3376 620-583-4577 SEVERY, KS.

2011 Case IH RB464 Round Baler, net/ twine. 6000 bales. Very Nice. 620-200-4471 ---------WESTERN PLAIN TILLAGE INC. Replacement gangs for Quinstar, Richardson and Flex-King pickers and new picker sales. New Conservative treaders welded on solid gangs; V-Plow repairs. Cell 785-769-3499 HAYS, KS ---------1 Ton Chain Hoist; $50. 620-747-0756 1998 JD 455 35’ Drill, w/dry fertilizer, shedded, less than 1500 acres on discs, $20,000. 316-992-2822

2-853A JD ROW HEADS, 1-612C JD Corn Head, Excellent Condition. Cell 620-384-4189 ---------17 Wheel Rowse Ultimate V rake, rubber teeth, excellent condition. $24,000. 620-482-6271 ---------International 3ft. SINGLE RIPPER w/ plug $600; Melroe 244 24-8 DRILL, good condition, $1500. 417-646-8807 ---------12ft Krause Disc, JD 3pt. Quick Hitch. 620-465-2344 ----------Massey Harris 44G tractor, hydraulic loader, engine locked up, $950 OBO, 816-738-9495

UPCOMING AUCTIONS

Wednesday * Feb 21st, 9:00 am For Lewellen Amusement 1216 E. 13th * Andover, Ks.

Bunk House, Trucks, Trailers, Shop Equipment Rides, (2) Otterback Game Trailers, Generator Tractor, Golf Cart, Fork Lift, Air Compressor, Tools & Misc. Wednesday * February 28th * 9:00 am Sale site: 3601 N. St. Francis Antiques, Foundry Equipment, Tools, Shop Equipment Work Tables, Edgers,, post Drills, Valve Refacer, Forge Table & More “go to facebook or palmerauction.com” Terms: cash, check w/proper ID, Credit card 10% buyers prem. Bud Palmer Auction Palmerauction.com

Real Estate Auction THURSDAY * February 22nd * 4:00 pm 2032 S. Broadway - Wichita, KS

“Absolute Sale” 2032 S. Broadway Former Bar/Restaurant w/Walk In Cooler Back Bar & Bar Keg. TV Menu. Sign, Speakers Taxes: 935.00 Specials $9.97 Terms: Cash, 15% dn Sale Day Balance on Closing Sinage on Location “Ready to Occupy” Zoning: Commercial, Industrial Land Call for Inspection 10 percent buyers Premium Keller Williams Signature Partners Bill Scarritt, Agent (316)409-5145 Bud Palmer, Auctioneer (316)838-4141

Wednesday * February 28th * 9:00 am Sale site: 3601 N. St. Francis ANTIQUES – FOUNDRY EQUIPMENT – TOOLS – SHOP EQUIPMENT ASSETS ORDER SOLD FOR CASH!!!! Foundry Table – Lancaster Forge Blower – 148 post drill Tire spreader – Lg Whitney Metal Puncher (5) Post Drills – (5) Forge Blowers YARD EQUIPMENT Craftsman Edger - Yard Man Mower – Push Mower Dump Trailer – hose Reel – Jacobson Reel Mower Work Garden Engine – Limb Saw (3) Walk Edger’s – Shovels – Axe – Tampers – picks – Pipe Hose – (15) Stihl & Other Weed eaters – Acetylene Gages (8) Gaylord’s of Tools – Shop & Lawn SHOP EQUIPMENT 6’ Steel Work Table – Sioux Valve Prefacer 30” Wood Lathe – 93) 1 ½ Ton Chain Hoist

Vise Pedestal – Tool Box w/Tools – 5 HP Gas Air Compressors Rebar Shear - Large PU Tool Box – Craftsman Shop Vac 24” Pulley Magnet – ½” Drill – (2) 8’ Grinder Belt Sander - ¼ HP Sioux Pump Socket Sets B & O Wrenches - DeWalt Buffer - Paint Guns Q Shop Lights - Tripod – Concrete Float – Sinorett arc Welder Trailer Axels, Car wheels, 6” Casters, 48" Float – Tap & Die Sets Dealt 5’ (DWx723) MITRE Saw Stand – Snap On Tools ANTIQUES WISCONSIN Deering Stickle Sharpeners Water Pumps - (6) Ass’t Post Drills, Power Hack Saws (2) 48” Steel Metal Bins - 5 x 30”

Metal lath Hand Grinders & Sharpeners Terms: Cash, Check w/proper ID, Credit Card 10% buyer’s premium

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Laugh Tracks in the Dust

Oh, baby. We had a couple of days this week that made me believe that spring is tantalizing close. On those 60-70 degree days, I tilled up my garden plot with the fall turnips in it, plus I tilled gardens for two of my neighbors. On top of that, I used the tractor to aerate my two big compost piles — and the chickens loved scratching around in all that fresh dirt. And, before the weather turned for the worse, I even hauled

a couple loads of trimmed tree branches to the ever-growing burn pile, The pond ice is all melted, so my fishing fever is beginning to rise. Might have to give crappie fishing a try during the next brief warm-up. *** At a nice modern farm home with a 2-car garage, early one evening the farmer went out to his garage and pulled the lawn furniture out onto the driveway. Shortly after, he followed that up with the lawn mower, a few gardening tools and a bicycle. A neighbor pulled in for a visit and, out of curiosity, asked the farmer if he was going to have a garage sale. “No,” replied the

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farmer, “My son just bought his first used pickup and right now he’s in the house getting all spiffed up for a big date.” “So, what’s with dragging all that stuff out onto your garage pad?” asked the neighbor. “Well, after years of moving tricycles, toys and sports equipment off the drive pad every time I came home from the field, I want to make sure the driveway is ready for him.” *** It usually takes some time before a joke does what I call “recycle.” It used to be through word of mouth telling, but nowadays it’s through e-mails. Well, it’s been seven or eight years since I quit entertaining rural audiences with standup gigs, but one of the old jokes I used (and it didn’t originate with me), recycled this week into my email box. It’s good enuf to recycle as column material. If I’ve used it before, it’s been years ago. It goes like this: There once was the

CORNWELL FARMS SECOND ANNUAL

ANGUS PRODUCTION SALE

Celebrating a Century at Cornwell Farms! 1 pm • Tuesday, March 6, 2018 At LaCrosse Livestock Market, LaCrosse, Kansas SELLING: • 60 Angus Bulls – 24 Two-Year-Olds, 27 Fall Yearlings & 4 Select Spring Yearlings Performance –Tested, Fertility-Tested, Ready for Service • 5 Registered Fall Cow/Calf Pairs With Fall Bull and Heifer Calves at side, rebred to EF Commando 1356 • 10 Commercial Fall Cow/Calf Pairs SIRES REPRESENTED: AAR Ten X 7008 SA; Connealy Right Answer 746: Connealy PVF Insight 0129 CORNWELL FARMS Rick & Joe Cornwell • RR 3 Box 3 • Saint John, Ks 67576 (620) 549-6349 • (620) 546-3466 cell • [email protected] TOM BURKE, KURT SCHAFF, JEREMY HAAG, AMERICAN ANGUS HALL OF FAME, at the WORLD ANGUS HEADQUARTERS, PO Box 660, Smithville, MO 64089-0660. Phone: (816) 532-0811. Fax: (816) 532-0851. E-mail [email protected] Auctioneer: Jerry Lehmann

unluckiest farmer still alive. As the result of unlucky farm accidents, the poor soul had to go through the rest of his life with an artificial leg, a hook on one arm, and a patch on one eye that had gotten poked out. Since he wuz unable to do hard manual labor, the unluckiest farmer alive had to turn to traveling the country giving paid personal testimony speeches about what could happen to members of farm and ranch families if they did not routinely practice sound farm safety measures at all time. For his first gig, he wuz hired by a prominent farm group in Kansas to give a farm safety speech at its annual convention, which coincided with National Farm Safety Week. Naturally, the unlucky farmer was nervous as a cat with a long tail in a room full of rocking chairs as he took the podium. Nervously wiping the sweat from his brow, holding his handkerchief awkwardly in his hook-hand, he began by saying: “This is my personal story. One day when I was combining corn, the combine plugged. So, I got off the tractor, grabbed a tight grip on a big pulley and tugged with all my might to get the combine running again. Well, it did, but I was thrown off-balance and stumbled forward and my arm got caught in the belt and it pulled through the pulley and slicked my hand and forearm off as cleanly as a cleaver. That’s why I now live with a hook for a hand. “Now as for my artificial leg, one day I was working alone with the tractor pulling stumps from a steep hillside on our farm. I set the tractor

emergency brake and dismounted to hook the log chain around the stump. Well, I didn’t do a good job and the tractor broke loose and came rolling down the hill and the drawbar crushed my leg against the stump. So, you might say that a stump caused my stump, but in reality, it was my carelessness that left me with an artificial leg. “Now, as for the necessity of my wearing a patch over my left eye, that’s the saddest farm accident of all. One day I was pitchforking old, loose hay out of our hay mow in the barn. I was bent over with the pitchfork when I heard a fluttering commotion up in the peak of the hay mow. Instinctly, I looked up into a flock of pigeons and one of them unloaded a big squirt that landed squarely in my left eye.” The unlucky farmer then closed his farm safety speech by saying, “I hope you’ve learned from my story the value of always practicing farm

safety. Now, does anyone have a question?” A farmer in the front row raised his hand and asked, “Sir. Thank you, I learned a lot. Here’s my question, how did you lose your eye just from a pigeon pooping in it?” The world’s unluckiest farmer replied, “Oh, I forgot to mention it was the first day I had my hook.” *** Well, since I dragged you that far into a farce, I’ll close for the week with these words of wisdom from church lawn signs. St. Mark’s Anglican Church’s sign reads, “Adam and Eve were the first people to not read the Apple terms and conditions.” And from the Holy Trinity Roman Catholic Church a sign that reads, “Too hot to keep changing this sign. Sin? Bad! Jesus? Good! Details inside.” Keep those words in mind and have a good ‘un.

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AUCTION CALENDAR Sat. March 3, 9:30 AM 415 S Ash (OLG Hall), Newton KS Antiques, Collectibles, Garage & Yard. Vern Clean Auction! Check web. Knox Rhine Estate Bette Rhine www.auctionspecialists.com Sat. March 10, 9:30 AM 415 S Ash (OLG Hall), Newton, KS 32,000+ Marbles; Marble Games; All Types Marbles; Tin & Cast Iron Toys One Estate www.auctionspecialists.com Sat. March 17, 9:30 AM 415 S Ash (OLG Hall), Newton, KS Nice 45 year collection -250+ BB Rifles & Pistols; Targets; Adv. Pieces Collection Ant. Woodworking Tools Norman & Patsy Schmidt AUCTION SPECIALISTS, LLC www.auctionspecialists.com Vern Koch 316.772.6318 Mike Flavin 283.8164

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Kansas Profile – Now That’s Rural: William Allen White, Part 2 By Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University Four statues stand in the rotunda of the Kansas Capitol. They honor President Dwight D. Eisenhower, Sen. and Gov. Arthur Capper, aviator Amelia Earhart, and country newspaper editor William Allen White. White was one of the most famous newspaper editors of his day. He was nationally influential while publishing the daily newspaper in his small town in rural Kansas. His legacy continues through the years. Last week we learned about Red Rocks, the William Allen White home which is now a state historic site in Emporia. At Red Rocks through the years, William Allen White and his wife Sallie hosted many visitors, including several presidents and thought leaders from across the nation. One of those was Edna Ferber, the most successful female novelist in the first half of the twentieth century. She wrote: “… there is no ocean trip, no month in the country, no known drug equal to the reviving quality of twenty-four hours spent on the front porch or in the sitting room of the Whites’ house in Emporia...” White was a gifted and articulate writer. He wrote 22 books. His newspaper editorials through the years dealt with topics ranging from national policy to his favorite recipes. His 1896 editorial, “What’s the Matter with Kansas,” first brought him national fame. This editorial led to him meeting and becoming a longtime friend of Teddy Roosevelt. In later years, White came to embrace Roosevelt’s progressive policies within the Republican party. Another editorial was a tribute to his 16-yearold daughter, killed in a horseback riding accident. This touching column would become reprinted in textbooks for years. In later years, White challenged the racism of the Ku Klux Klan. He also supported free speech. His 1922 editorial, “To an Anxious Friend,” won a Pulitzer Prize as did his autobiography. One day, White wrote about his lost dog, a fox terrier named Teddy (after Teddy Roosevelt). His column brought an outpouring of letters from across the country, reporting dog sightings or offering

a puppy. Eventually, the lost dog was found and reunited with the family. Decades later, in 2013, Emporia author Jerilynn Henrikson wrote a children’s book about the dog. The fanciful book, titled “Teddy, the Ghost Dog of Red Rocks,” chronicled the day-to-day life of the Whites through the eyes of the family canine. William Allen White passed away on Kansas Day in 1944. His son, William Lindsay White - sometimes known as Bill - assumed ownership of the Gazette. Bill White had worked in radio, sometimes filling in for legendary broadcaster Edward R. Murrow during World War II. Bill

White married Kathrine, a native of the rural community of Cawker City, population 469 people. Now, that’s rural. Bill and Kathrine had no children of their own. During World War II, Bill sought to adopt a war orphan in London and bring the child to the U.S. Flights were full and wartime restrictions were in place. Finally, White adopted young Barbara and left his luggage in London so that Barbara could ride on his lap on the plane. This story would become the basis for White’s book “Journey for Margaret” and a movie of the same name. Bill, Kathrine and Barbara came to Emporia

in 1951 and lived at Red Rocks. Barbara married a Stanford classmate, David Walker. In 2001, Barbara gifted Red Rocks to the state of Kansas. The Walker family continues ownership of the Emporia Gazette today. The legacy of William Allen White lives on. The journalism school at KU and the library at Emporia State are named in his honor, as was a B-29 airplane, a children’s book award, a local elementary school, and more. He was the Sage of Emporia, known nationally as an advocate for small town life in middle America. In the Kansas capitol, William Allen White is one of only four Kansans

depicted as statues. We commend all those who are making a difference by keeping this history alive. His impact on Kansas history is statuesque. And there’s more. The

Walker family not only continues White’s legacy in Kansas journalism, it is reaching even more communities. We’ll learn about that next week.

MOLITOR ANGUS 39th Annual Production Sale Saturday, March 17, 2018 – 1 p.m. at the ranch (11558 SW 90th St., Zenda) 5 mi. N. & 2 1/2 W. of Zenda, or 9 W., 9 S. & 2 ½ West of Kingman, KS.

Selling 110 Bulls and 40 Females

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Main Herd Sires represented: Basin Payweight 1682, KG Solution 0018, LD Emblazon 999, HA Outside 3878, Black Granite, HAYNES Outright 452 and Basin Advance 3134. Catalogs available upon request or register for online bidding at www.dvauction.com.

MOLITOR ANGUS RANCH RICHARD OR MIKE MOLITOR 620-243-6335 Cell: (620) 243-3081 [email protected]

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Farm Machinery

For Sale: New and Used WALINGA AGRI-VACS. Sales and Service. 785-259-5788 ELLIS, KS --------------2000 JD 1293 Corn Head 12 row, Single Point, AHH, $15,000obo 316-284-1935 SEDGWICK

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Farm Machinery AgCo-R62 COMBINE. Engine hours 3,456. Separator hours; 2,628. Shop service yearly. Field ready. 2006 AgCo CORN HEAD 8 row 36 #3000. fiver-snoots hyd-roller cones-sides w/gathering reel. both always shedded. 402-773-4762 402-469-9547 --------- ------New Ford D shaped, 75 gallon fuel tank with straps. $1980. 620-747-0756

Irrigation 1981 T-L 8 towers, planetary, good pipe excellent water 620-672-8470

Irrigation 1992 7 twr Valley 6000 excellent pipe half of gear boxes new last season new drops..........$29,500 2008 7 twr Zimmatic tall tires excellent pipe.......$31,500 2011 7 twr Zimmatic small pollies excellent pipe....$36,500 1992 7 twr Reinke excellent pipe new base beams....$24,500 Pre 92 T&L 8 twr good pipe three phase 10 horsepower sound irrigation system..................$10,000 mid 90s Zimmatic 7 twr 5 9/16 inch good pipe............$21,000 2 Valley 8000 half mile Center pivots repiped with lots of 10 inch, tall tires with Iwobs.......................Call Mid 90s Valley good sha pe............................Call All these irrigators are proven and ready to go to the field. Eric Hoeme with Irrigation Resources, Leoti Kansas. We will save you enough money to take your family out to dinner and enough time to enjoy it 620-271-3806

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Fertilizer RED WILLOW AVIATION & FERTILIZER CHEMICALS-CHEAPFor prices and delivery, 800-658-4394 Red Willow Aviation, rwaviation.com McCook, NE 69001 ---------2011 Crustbuster 4030 Allplant, 48x7.5 spacing. 5500 acres, 1500 acres on new disks, liquid fertilizer, Keeton seed firmers. $38,800 620-200-0435. ---------CROP PROTECTION CHEMICALS “Wholesale Prices” *quotes* Fry Brothers Fertilizer 402-626-7204 ---------ACCELEGROW, Excellent growth stimulator for pasture, silage, hay and grain crops. Add up to 15% protein value. 10 to 50% Forage increase. 620-482-6271

Chemicals Sencor $8.50 BANVEL $35 AMS $9.50 LV-6 $15.50 BUC PLUS Call QUANITY DISCOUNT. BENES SERVICE. Will meet or beat all prices. BENES SERVICE Valparaiso, NE. 402-784-3581 Valparaiso, NE. 402-784-3581

Sprayers 1254 rogator, auto steer, auto shut off, very nice. 785-747-8239 ---------1254 rogator, auto steer, auto shut off, very nice. 785-747-8239

Harvesting Experienced custom combining crew is available to take on your acres.Our fleet consists of 3 Deere combines w/ mapping capabilities with 45ft. flex draper heads, stripper heads & heads & corn heads, plus all supporting equipment. We have decided to rent our farm out to focus exclusively on our custom harvest business enabling us to get an earlier start on the harvest run. We would be interested in acquiring acres in TX, OK, KS, CO or NE. Also looking to add more fall acres. To book acres or for more info., please contact Sam Handy at 406-671-7210 or email [email protected] References available upon request.

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Intermittent Irony: Closing the Loop

Intermittent Irony By Lisa Meitner Just like the Disney ride says, It's a small world. There is that moment that your parent hands you the box of all your memories. My gut reaction when it was my time was that Dad was acting a bit callous. I even asked him if he was sure he didn’t want to keep anything. In a very “man” way, Dad explained that we were old enough to decide what to do with what was left from the past. In my present day reality, I totally get what he was thinking. I have literally lugged all these memento's long enough. I have started a tub for each of my girls and once they are full, they will be

Harvesting CUSTOM HARVESTING & PLANTING, Clayton Molitor. 620-243-2485 SPIVEY

Fencing LODGEPOLE PRODUCTS CO. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE Unrivaled service & quality, corral poles, buck fence, posts, western rail, rough sawn lumber and wood fence stays. 307-742-6992 www.lodgepole products.com Some good advice: BUY NOW, STEEL PRICES TO RISE. For years we have served our customers by alerting them of pending steel price increases. Suppliers we do business with have told us they are raising prices in early 2018. It is good news that the economy is growing, but it is also time to play it smart. Steel prices will affect everything steel, not just products we sell. If you can anticipate what your needs will be, AVOID THE HIKE. If you are a customer of GoBob, you know we have always honored the prices given at the time you place your order. GoBobCattle.com 844-300-6068

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heading to their owners. I will gladly step down from my “keeper of the keys” person for my family. Good call, Dad. The reason I waited until my girls were older was due to some of the decisions I made with my mother's things. There was that ¾ length Blackgama mink coat that me Dad wanted me to have. When would I need this, I said. I live in Hawaii. Not really my thing. My 59 year old self would love to smack my 27 year old self upside the back of her head. Not only because my mother loved this piece. How about like Dorothy...I’m not in Hawaii anymore! There have been plenty of

cold, Kansas nights that I would have treasured staying warm – inside and out – in that coat my mother loved. As the years go by, I become more resolute in my long held belief that memories trump any physical items we acquire in our travels. In saying that, I believe there are those touchstones, as small as they can be, that can evoke a time, place, smell that takes us, instantaneously, to the past. It warms my heart cooking certain recipes that take me back to my mom's kitchen – knowing that for my girls, these aromas will always trigger a memory of me. One such touchstone from my mother is a memory of how hard

she worked to hand sew more than a hundred tote bags that were sold in a local shop in the summer of 1976. This summer was huge in Newport, because we were not only celebrating our country’s Bicentennial but also the arrival of the Tall Ships to our port. I try to forgive myself that I never kept one of these bags. I was only 17. It is why I say, once again, someone older should be making our memory box decisions. Technology is not one of my strong suits, but Face Book is pretty simple, even for me. Several years ago I was invited into a closed group for people who grew up in Newport, RI. Last week I posted that I wish I had kept one of these

February 21, 2018 totes, and that if anyone still happened to have one, I would love to buy it from them. Two days, and many small conversations later, the mother of one of my Jr. High boyfriends contacted me with a photo of the tote that she thought might have been my mothers. Well, it has been 42 years, but I recognized that bag immediately. After several small walks down memory lane on

Messenger, Christa let me know that she had put the tote in the mail and I should have it by tomorrow. She felt the same way I did about having something a parent made and charged me nothing for the tote or the mailing. I contacted her son to get her address so I can send her some flowers. ...It’s a small, small world.

Reno Co. Real Estate Auction Tuesday, March 13, 7:00 pm

Auction Location: Kingman Expo Center, 121 S. Main, Kingman, KS 240 acres prime hunting and recreational property, 100+ acres CRP, 30 acres+ cultivation balance trees and Goose Creek runs through the property. Property is located 12 miles west of Pretty Prairie on Pretty Prairie Road. View Auction flyer at www.genefrancis.com

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Antique Farm Machinery

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RAZIEN METALS COMPANY. Your Source for PIPECASING-TUBINGSTRUCTURAL STEEL. We deliver. 580-256-5536

WANTED TO BUY: CAT Pull Cable Scrapers. 306-682-3332 Lever Holding ---------ANTIQUE PULLING Tractors: 1947 UMM, $2500 obo; 1950 44 Massey, $2500 obo. 580-626-4582 580-542-8559 ---------1944 Farmall, H series, PTO, needs work, looks good, $900 or best reasonable offer. 316-390-5040 ---------1950D Oliver Model Tractor, 453 Detroit, New Parts, Needs Tires, $4,500/obo 816-738-9495 Adrian, MO

NEED 50+ YEAR old antique JD, IH, MM, AC, Case, Oliver and Massey farm equipment. JD D, Case VA, D, R, L, LAI, Fergson 20. Many 2, 3, 4, 5 bottom plows, some on steel wheels. Drills, discs, cultivators, rotary hoes, sickle mowers, rodweeders, A tedder, and many others. PH-620-672-2490.

BEAR BLESSINGS Antiques - Hidden Treasures, Vintage Collectibles, Retrieved Antiques, and an occasional ‘Homemade’ Cookie! Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. 620-669-8997, 14 S. Main, HUTCHINSON. Like us on Facebook. !Shop Local Downtown Hutchinson! ---------100+ Plum Bobs, Brass-Cast IronsSteel, Call 620-727-1683

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PIPE FOR SALE: 2 & 3/8in., 2 & 7/8in, all other sizes available, delivery available. Call Monty Tivis. 806-363-6640 HEREFORD, TEXAS ---------2 3/8- 2 7/8- 3 1/2 inch PIPE for sale. Delivery Available. 620-617-4180 cell/620-982-4540

FARM FENCE SPECIALIST Pasture clearing, dozing, excavation, concrete construction, demolition, lowboy & end dump services. DJ BALES 913-426-1040

Hedge Post For Sale, Haven Ks. 316-650-8485 ---------Hedge Post For Sale, Haven Ks. 316-650-8485 ---------Krehbiel Tree Clearing & Fencing. Specializing in tree removal and barbed wire fencing. Call for a quote 620-931-7283

Remodeling Hutch Improvement Homeworks. Windows, Siding, Doors, and More. 620-665-8751. hutchworks.com

RV's & Campers Inside/Outside Storage: RV, Boats and Campers. 620-664-1696 ---------2006 Hi-Lo camp trailer - 17 feet $5,000 316-804-7000

Antiques & Collectibles 2017 Silver Eagles are Here! Wanted: Gold & Silver Coins, Coin Collections & Currency. Salt City Coin 326 N. Main St. Hutchinson, KS. 620-662-9888 ----------

Apartment Buildings For Sale by AUCTION

At: The Well, 101 N. Main, McPherson. Tue. Mar. 20 @ 6:30 PM

seller: rowena e. flory estate 1301-1315 Oaklane St., McPherson, KS

Agents Statement. Raymond Flory built this apartment complex in 1975 and it has remained in the Flory family ever since. Two triplexes and a duplex provide 8 rental units. It has had many updates and improvements over the years including a new roof in 2014. Take advantage of this opportunity to purchase well maintained income producing property in the city of McPherson.

10% Buyers Premium Broker Participation Recognized: 3% Broker Participation is offered. Any Kansas licensed broker/agents are eligible. Contact Four Seasons Realtors for details.

Open House & Tour: Apt 1311

Sunday Mar 4 at 1:00-2:00 PM, Tour 2 PM Sunday Mar 18 at 1:00-2:00 PM, Tour 2 PM

Meet at apartment 1311. 13 The tour will be the only opportunity to see the inside of all the other 7 occupied apartments. Apartment 1311 can also be seen by appointment. Call Troy or any other real estate agent for an appointment. Earnest Payment: $45,000 due day of auction. The balance at closing. Property is not selling contingent upon buyer obtaining financing.

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Cars WE BUY CARS, TRUCKS & VANS running or not, up to $1000. Must have title. Broadway Truck & Auto, 8159 N Broadway, Valley Center, KS. 316-644-2241 ---------1981 FORD GRENADA, runs, $1,000 OBO. PH-620-459-6908. ---------1994 Ford F350 4x4 460/auto 3.54 gears, needs tlc 580-430-9405 ALVA, OK ---------1963 Corvair Convertible, 1500 and/or 62 Corvair, 2 dr. coup, $1,000, both need restoration. 620-960-2239 ---------2016 Ford Fusion SE dual pwr seats, nav, back up cameras, loaded 8K $16,995.00. El Dorado, Ks. 620-583-5388 ---------2013 Nissan Sentra SL 4dr Sedan Price: $11,695 Special $11,495 55,510 Miles 620-663-2106 1-OWNER SUPER SHARP, TILT, CRUISE, POWER WINDOWS SEAT AND MIRRORS, SUNROOF, LEATHER SEATS, 620-663-2106 Hutchinson mccurdymotor.com ---------2011 Chevrolet Equinox LTZ 4dr SUV Price: $12,895 82,097 Miles LTZ PKG., TILT, CRUISE, CLIMATE CONTROL AIR AND HEAT, HEATED POWER LEATHER, SUNROOF 620-663-2106 Hutchinson, KS mccurdymotor.com ---------2011 Chevrolet Cruze LT 4dr Sedan w/1LT Price: $7,295 Special $6,995 119,349 Miles RELIABLE WITH STYLE AND COMFORT. TILT, CRUISE, CLIMATE CONTROL AIR AND HEAT, FACTORY SPORT WHEELS. 620-663-2106 Hutchinson mccurdymotor.com

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ROGER'S VIEW FROM THE HILLS: VOICE IN THE WILDERNESS

Roger's View From The Hills

Open up the Wichita Eagle and the story jumps out at me that the new Governor and others are suddenly conscious about the diversion of KDOT Highway monies to fund the deficit has to stop. Well I’ll be! I have written many times on this subject. At least 5 Governor campaigns that I remember in the past ran on keeping the KDOT money in their fund and not stealing it to keep the deficit from looking too bad. In fact one of those

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stealing from the block grants and divert the money again! You can come up with all the words to describe taking money away from the highway fund but it is still stealing. another department of state government diverted federal funds for other purposes and almost got us in trouble. Somehow the state got away with not paying the penalties. The department director then hired onto a federal agency leaving the destruction in his wake. It is time that the D and R designations in Topeka were put aside and the Kansan replace it in the legislature and governors office. As a stern parent once put it, “Don’t make me come back and catch you doing this again!” With this stern lecture does anyone think things will change? If you do stand on your head and dance around church.

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governors (who went on to Washington) took so much out that KDOT employees told me that it would take Kansas 20 years to recover the set backs to the budget from that one administration. We are still behind from that time and at some point a governor declared that we had completed the long term highway plan. WHAT! There is a project from that plan at least 3 or 4 governors ago that is still setting not being completed. The plans are still posted on the courthouse walls and it is a big joke. The legislature has not been a lot better since it is never finished with it’s business until long after they are supposed to go home. Spending millions for over time sessions. The biggest worry that the newest funding grant possibilities coming from Washington, is how we can keep the legislature and governor from

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Deer Harvest Surveys E-mailed To Select Hunters

PRATT – Hunters who purchased a deer permit for the 20172018 deer seasons are asked to take a close look at their e-mail inbox and spam folder as they may have been randomly selected to complete a Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism Deer Harvest Survey. The e-mail will come from the address [email protected] with the subject line “2017-18 Deer Harvest Survey,” and it only takes about three minutes to complete. Even if a hunter didn’t hunt after purchasing a permit, or was unsuccessful, they are still encouraged to complete the survey as all information is important to staff. Data gathered from the survey helps staff estimate the number of deer killed, hunter success rates and activity, hunter opinions and more, all of which help biologists develop deer management policies and hunting regulations.

Trucks 50 MID-SIZE DAY CAB TRUCKS FOR SALE. International, Kenworth, Sterling, GMC, FTL & Fords. Trucks have mostly CATS 3126 - C7’s, some Allison trans. & manuals. 19992006’s. Wholesale prices to the public & discounts if you buy more than one truck at a time. Prices from $ 5,000 - $20,000. Boxes, flatbeds, hoists-We can build. Call 719-372-3428/ 719-337-1944 ---------06 Pete 379 d/c ISM 425 hp., 10 spd., 514K. $30,500. 316-821-9664 irelandsales.net ---------2010 IH Prostar D/C ISX 435 539K $23,500. 316-821-9664 irelandsales.net ---------(2) 98 IH dump trucks, 16ft. bed, Allison and snow blade.$27500. 316-821-9664. irelandsales.net ---------1947 Chevy truck, 1 1/2 ton, 6 cylinder tilt bed, needs restoration. $750. 620-960-2239

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State aid is life for local schools Kansas. * The big chore confronting the 2018 Kansas Legislature is a long, grinding march into the matted jungle thicket of local school finance. Its landscape is clotted with complex formulas and pitted with unfamiliar jargon, impenetrable codes, the quick-sands of property valuation and mill levies. We elect legislators to understand and grapple with all this. The footing for local school finance has four basic components: A statewide uniform property tax for schools; local spending limits; local wealth as a shared state resource; state funding of local schools based on district enrollment. Closer to home, we can see the issue more clearly, the cross-currents of revenue and expense, the impact of state “aid,” the importance of revenue sharing. A view to the local budget presents a picture of the statewide formula that is life for local schools. Late last August, the Smoky Valley School District adopted year. This budget is clear evidence that the state and federal governments are crucial to the survival of local schools, and in spite of Gov. Sam Brownback’s attempts to dismantle them, our schools are in reasonably good shape. The $9,647,000 operating budget is to pay the district’s day-to-day expenses. They include, among other items, salaries and supplies, utilities and insurance, transportation (buses), building maintenance and equipment. The operating budget is composed of two parts: a general fund, $7,257,099, financed through state aid; and a “supplemental” (or local) general fund, $2,390,547 financed with local property taxes. The lion’s share of $7,257,000 is allocated from a central pool in Topeka, money collected through a uniform, 20-mill ($20 per $1,000 assessed valuation) property tax in each of the state’s 286 school districts. The money is returned to local schools based on the number of students to be educated, plus other defined needs. The “supplemental” $2.39 million is

John Marshall financed with additional local taxes. Put another way, 75 percent of the operating cost for Smoky Valley schools comes from a shared state fund. This is similar, in varying measures, for nearly every other district in

Imagine the burden if communities were to pay it all. In each school district, the tax base for the local share of school finance is separated in two component parts – property assessed to support the general fund, and property assessed for all other funds. For the Smoky Valley, it’s $71,787,000 for property assessed for the general fund, and $77,740,000 for all other funds. Without state aid, taxes on these valuations would almost quadruple. Here’s how: To finance the $7.2 million general fund, the local tax

would increase from the current statewide rate of 20 mills ($20 per $1,000 assessed valuation) to more than 101 mills. The $2.4 million “supplemental” general fund (local option budget) levy would increase from 15.78 mills ($15.78 per $1,000 assessed valuation) to $30.75. Total: $131.84 per $1,000 assessed valuation, compared with the current $35.78. Thirty years ago, legislators confronted soaring school taxes. Federal tax reform and statewide property classification and reappraisal combined to turn the state’s 1973 school finance formu-

February 21, 2018 la on its head. Across Kansas, property levies threatened to increase from double to as much as ten times established rates. Repeated patchwork adjustments were not enough. Citizens and the courts demanded lasting change. Historic, bipartisan reforms in 1992 created the current uniform state property tax, the central pool for revenue sharing, and set basic, per-pupil aid for the state’s school districts. The formula also outlined criteria for additional aid to poor and sparsely populated regions. In effect, wealthier school districts were to share tax revenues in

districts with a diminished ability to pay. School finance is conceived as a statewide commitment, with local funding through uniform state taxation, and based chiefly on the number of students to be educated, not the wealth of a district. In recent years as Brownback and his legislative allies cut state funding, local budgets suffered, or local taxes increased, or both. In some regions, schools were closed. As the state withdrew support, the wealth of each school district courts has repeatedly declared unconstitutional. We have turned away (Continued on page 31)

February 21, 2018 (Continued from page 30) from that blockgrant, take-it-or leaveit funding scheme, a brief Brownback-era disaster that ignored critical variances that bless or afflict communities, such as local economies, enrollment flux, transportation needs. At the same time state aid was repeatedly

Page 31 slashed, throttling local schools. We have returned to our more equitable finance formula, but the damage has been done. The Kansas Supreme Court has ordered legislators to refuel funding for local schools. With adjustments here and there, the current system will continue to

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invigorate local schools. It means a stronger state through equity in aid to all school districts. Without it, everything – as we have recently seen – begins to fail. *** DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY: The roots of reform In late 1988, less than a month after his reelection to the Kansas Senate, Dave Kerr began raising an alarm about threats to the state’s formula for local school finance. “We’re headed for a disaster,” he told a reporter. At the time, Kerr, a Republican, represented Reno County and Hutchinson, home to Dillon Companies, Inc.

a multistate corporation that owned hundreds of supermarkets, pharmacies and convenience stores under local and regional banners. Dillon Companies had agreed in 1983 to merge with supermarket giant Kroger. As the merger was completed with Dillon executives seizing corporate power, the multi-billion-dollar transaction would enrich many shareholders almost overnight. Kerr was alarmed that the sudden infusion of wealth would put Reno County schools in financial peril, especially the Hutchinson and Buhler districts. Here’s why: Since 1973, the wealth of a school district (or

lack of it) had determined its allotment of state aid. At the time the formula for wealth was composed of property values plus 24 percent of taxable income. Districts high in wealth per pupil received less aid than poorer districts. On a state average, then, property values comprised about 75 percent of district wealth, and taxable income, 25 percent. Federal tax reforms of 1986 would expose more Kansas income to state taxation. And as statewide property classification and reappraisal took hold, the traditional formula was turned on its head. Statewide, taxable

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income was suddenly an average 56 percent of school district wealth (not 25 percent) and property values, 44 percent (not 75). Kerr had seen the threat early on. Without revision, he said, the finance formula would penalize scores of communities placed, almost overnight, among the ranks of high-income school districts; they faced dramatic losses in state aid and soaring property tax bills. Almost overnight, Hutchinson and Buhler would become no-aid districts; local property taxes would soar. Kerr’s warnings were at first met with a shrug. Few legislators had paid much attention to school funding because the old formula had worked well. But soon other districts faced the dilemma that plagued Hutchinson. By late 1989, angry protests against looming tax increases had swept across the state. Gov. Mike Hayden called a special session of the Legislature to deal with the issue, but lawmakers could not be expected, in two days in December, to rewrite a century of state tax law. The special session adjourned in frustration. In 1990 and 1991, the Legislature and Gov. Joan Finney failed to agree on funding enough for reform of the education finance formula. A directive from a Shawnee County District judge invited the legislature and the governor, in late 1991, to begin the work that led to dramatic reform of state school finance in 1992. It remains the foundation for current law. In spite of recent attempts to disparage or dismantle that formula, it remains an equitable and constitutional method for funding local schools.

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February 21, 2018

Light Goose Conservation Order 2018

light goose populations lesser snow geese) are have exploded in the overly abundant most past few years to the years around Kansas, and with the absence of point where light geese winter over much of the have nearly denuded portions of their fragile state, their populations arctic tundra breeding only grow. But never habitat, also negatively fear, that institution impacting other species known as “The Fed” of songbirds and water has again come to the rescue. A federally-au- birds in the process Exploring Kansas Outdoors thorized program known This program comes By Steve Gilliland as the Light Goose with lots of perks for [email protected] Conservation Order, hunters. First of all, it February 19 – April 30, allows for unlimited I remember a story 2018 is here to help. harvest as there is no told to me by a friend The Light Goose daily bag or possession who is part of a group of Conservation Order limit. This also means goose hunters that tries 2018 allows for UNunlimited goose breasts to go to Canada goose LIMITED harvest of for the freezer or hunting every fall. light geese in Kansas unlimited goose jerky, Goose populations have from Feb. 19 through and extended hunting exploded to the point the end of April. Now days for the hunters. where many farmers a conservation order is The order also allows welcome hunters to an odd name, you might hunters to use electronremove them from their ic game calls (not legal say for an order that property. My friend during normal goose allows for increased recalls their group harvest of wildlife. The seasons) and unplugged eating in a Canadian Spring’s a-coming SALE! restaurant and having Textron/Arctic Cat - Side x Side.......... 17 Alterra 700, EPS, 4x4..........$8,499 landowners approach 15 Wildcat Sport, 4x4, warr, rebates!.$9,999 17 VLX 700, auto, value unit, 4x4......$6,399 16 Prowler 700 HDX, EPS, 4x4.....$10,999 18 VLX 700, PS, auto, value unit, 4x4........$7,399 them, begging them 17 Prowler 500, auto, dump, 4x4...$8,799 Hisun Utility Vehicles to come hunt geese on 17 Prowler 500 HDX, 4x4..........$10,999 17 Sector 550, roof, winch, 1 yr warr..........$8,999 18 Wildcat Trail LTD, EPS, 4x4..........Call 17 Sector 550, roof, winch, 1 yr warr..........$8,999 their farms. 18 Stampede X, EPS, turf mode..........Call 17 Sector 250, roof, winch, 4x2..........$4,999 Unless you’re abso18 Stampede, EPS, turf mode..........Call CFMOTO - ATV & SxS lutely driving blind or 18Havoc,EPS,KingShocks,winch,4x4...Call 18 C-Force 400 S, auto, 4x4, 1yr warr........$4,499 Textron/Arctic Cat - ATV 18 C-Force 500 S, PS, AT, winch, 4x4........$5,499 totally oblivious to your 16 Youth 90, F-N-R, 4x2, ages 12+...$2,499 18 C-Force 500, PS, 2-seat, winch, 4x4......$6,299 surroundings as you 16 300, auto, 4x2...................$3,499 18 U-Force 500, EPS, winch, 4x4..........$9,300 travel, you have noticed 16 700 TBX, PS, dump box, 4x4.$8,499 18 Z-Force 500 trail, winch, 4x4..........$9,499 16 Alterra 700, PS, 4x4, camo..........$8,499 17 U-Force 800, EPS, winch, 4x4..........$11,099 hordes of white geese 16 Mud Pro 700, PS, winch, lift.......$7,999 16 C-Force 500, wheels, winch, 4x4..........$4,999 16 Alterra 300, H/L/R, 4x2..........$3,999 Go-Kart in local fields. Looking 17 Alterra 500, auto, 4x4..........$5,299 17 Trailmaster Mid XRX/R, rev, 6.5hp........$1,999 like God shook them 17 550 TRV, EPS, auto, 2-seat, 4x4...$9,999 ALL PRICES DO NOT INCLUDE TAXES OR FEES, STANDARD FACTORY WARRANTY APPLIES, SEE from a giant salt shaker, DEALER FOR DETAILS. FINANCING AVAILABLE * PRICING GOOD WHILE SUPPLIES LAST. 02/28/18 “light geese” (which 632 S Broadway Salina KS 67401 include Ross’ geese 785-823-7297 www.salinapowersports.com and both greater and

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shotguns, meaning now 5 or more shells can be loaded into shotguns instead of just the 3 allowed during normal waterfowl seasons. All Kansas hunters need to take advantage of this special extended season is a regular 2018 Kansas hunting license and the Kansas HIP Permit, State Waterfowl Stamp and Federal Waterfowl Stamp required for any waterfowl hunting. It’s seldom that Kansas hunters are asked to “save the day,” but in essence that’s what we’ll be doing by participating in this

special extended goose hunting season. I know when the weather gets nice like this many of us put away the steel shot shells in favor of turkey loads, and even exchange the shotgun for a fishing rod. But why not keep the decoys out of storage a little longer this year and put a few more goose breasts in the freezer to go along with some fresh sweat corn on the grill come July. Continue to Explore Kansas Outdoors! Steve can be contacted by email at [email protected].

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February 21, 2018

K-State’s 41st anniversary bull and female sale scheduled for March 2

MANHATTAN, Kan. — Kansas State University’s Department of Animal Sciences and Industry will host the Legacy Sale on Friday, March 2 at the Stanley Stout Center in Manhattan. This year marks the 41st anniversary of the student-managed sale. This year’s offering in-

cludes 14 Angus, eight Simmental/SimAngus and seven Hereford yearling bulls as well as 13 Angus, 14 Simmental/SimAngus and 10 Hereford registered females. “For more than four decades, our commitment to our customers has been to provide cattle that are profitable in

a variety of situations,” said Bob Weaber, the faculty advisor for the university’s purebred unit facility. “This year’s offering was designed with that commitment in mind. Utilizing the latest technology, we have sought to build cattle that perform in a wide range of management and environmental conditions. Look through the list of calving ease bulls for use on heifers in all three breeds. Find the bulls in the upper percentiles in carcass traits to hit premium targets, and the high growth bulls that produce more pay-weight at weaning.” The sale catalog and

lot videos are available online at www.asi.ksu. edu/legacysale. The 105th annual Cattlemen’s Day will be held prior to this year’s sale. Gregg Doud, who has been nominated by President Donald Trump to be the Chief of Agricultural Negotiator and is currently the president of the Commodity Markets Council, will keynote the event by sharing his outlook on trade issues in the beef industry. Following Doud’s presentation, K-State agricultural economist Glynn Tonsor will discuss the importance of international trade as the U.S. beef herd

expands. The afternoon sessions will feature K-State faculty and industry presentations in Weber Hall and at the Purebred Beef Unit discussing a variety of topics. The cost to attend Cattlemen’s Day 2017 is $20 if paid by March 2 at noon or $30 at the door. There is no charge for students. Online registration is available at www.asi.ksu.edu. For more information, visit KSUBeef.org or contact Lois Schreiner at 785-532-1267 or [email protected]. Also, the 48th annual Stockmen’s Dinner will be held on March 1, beginning at 6 p.m. at

MACHINERY CONSIGNMENT AUCTION SATURDAY March 3, 2018 @ 10:00 AM Location: Midwest Farm & Dairy at Pleasantview 5 miles west of Hutchinson, KS on 50 Highway

Early Consignments Include 2012 JD #1025B Diesel Tractor with front wheel assist, loader, 25 hp, excellent condition and JD 3 pt. 5 ft. blade 1981 Ford F 250 ¾ ton pickup 1997 Case IH 25 ft. Flex header & header trailer End dump all steel semi-trailer Bradford 200 bushel gravity 4 wheel wagon Eze Trail 340 bushel gravity 4 wheel gravity wagon with hydraulic drill fill auger Underverth 400 bushel 4 wheel gravity wagon 3 pt. Lilliston 6 row rolling cultivator with good spiders Portable 35,000 KW PTO farm generator Orthman hydraulic markers for strip tiller planter 3 pt. 2 wheel inverter rotary rake, 3 pt. 3 section harrow & 3 section springtooth 2010 CM 5x8 ft. enclosed trailer; camo colored, JD PTO drive manure spreader 1976 Case David Brown diesel tractor with loader, 3pt., 2600 hours, 58hp, good rubber 6x16ft. stock trailer with lights

Farm & Related Items 40 continuous fencing panels 20 ft. long with all brackets Grill guard & running boards for late model Chevy Pickup Toro super Bronco mower, 42 in. cut, Kohler engine Huskee garden tractor, 18 hp with 46 in. cut mower 2 round bale feeders Rollaway tool box Walk behind tiller 5 hp Sears generator, Snow blower, Electric winch, Lots of hand tools

Sale conducted by: NISLY AUCTION LLC Auctioneer: Paul Nisly Hutchinson, KS 620-662-7570 We specialize in Farm Equipment, Real Estate, household & Antique Auctions www.kansasauctions.net/nisly

the Four Points by Sheraton in Manhattan. Sam Hands will be honored as Stockman of the Year. Registration for the Stockmen’s Dinner is $50 per attendee. More information is available online at www.found. ksu.edu/rsvp/asi or by contacting Chelsea Albrecht at 785-5327584.

Trucks 2006 MACK CV 700, 224,00 miles, like new. 402-756-1400 402-984-6327 ---------99 Freightliner Century, 20ft. grain bed. $29,500 radcliffetrucks.com. RADCLIFFE TRUCK SALES 785-421-3465 ---------2009 PRO STAR INTERNATIONAL ISX Cummings Day Cab, twin screw, 640K, $24,500. radcliffetrucks.com. RADCLIFFE TRUCK SALES 785-421-3465 ---------*2004 Volvo 770, 530 Det auto...$16,550 *2009 Int, 450 Cum, 13 spd........$17,450 *2009 Int, 450 Cum, auto........... $15,900 *2004 Int, 430 Int. 430 Cum, 10 spd..$17,500 *1996 Wilson hopper.................. $15,500 TransEquip, LLC 785-769-3458 / 785-754-3881 --------------2017 Dodge Ram SLT 2500, 6.7, Crew cab, single wh. base, 4x4, Diesel, like new 10K 41,500.00. 620-583-5388 ---------RICH HILL TRUCK & EQUIP. CO., INC. Spreaders & Feed Bodies; Good used Trucks & Units *Shur-Lok Roll Tarps & Lift Axles. rhtr.com. 417-395-2191 Interstate 49, RICH HILL, MO ---------2007 Chevrolet Colorado LT 4dr Extended Cab SB $8,495 Special $7,995 154,508 Miles REALLY CLEAN INSIDE AND OUT. GREAT FUEL MILEAGE AND RELIABILITY, 620-663-2106 Hutchinson, KS. mccurdymotor.com ---------2010 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 4x4 LS 4dr Extended Cab 6.5 ft. SB Price: $15,695 113,786 Miles EXTRA CLEAN INSIDE, TILT, CRUISE, LS PKG., AUTOMATIC, 4.8 V8, AM/FM CD PREMIUM SOUND SYSTEM, FACTORY SPORT WHEELS, 620-663-2106, Hutchinson mccurdymotor.com

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Trucks 2003 Mazda Truck 2dr Cab Plus B3000 Dual Sport Rwd SB Price: $6,895 113,910 Miles TILT, CRUISE, AIR, AUTOMATIC, FACTORY SPORT WHEELS, AM-FM STEREO, 3.0 V6 ENGINE. TIRES LIKE NEW 620-663-2106, Hutchinson mccurdymotor.com ---------2006 Ford F-150 FX4 4dr SuperCrew 4WD Styleside 6.5 ft. LB price $14995  special $14295 120,233 Miles 1-OWNER. 4X4 FX4 PKG.. TRAILER TOW PKG., CHROME PIPE RUNNING BOARDS, LEATHER INTERIOR, 620-663-2106 Hutchinson, KS mccurdymotor.com ---------WANTED: LIFT for cars and pickups and/ or an alignment rack. 785-985-3605; 816-387-6091 ---------2004 Peterbilt, 379, 550 h.p. Cummins, near new tires, excellent condition. $38,000. 785-985-3605 816-387-6091 ----------2002 Ford F150 $1,900. 620-899-2190

SUV's & Vans 1983 Ford Airport Type Shuttle Bus, Needs New Floor, $800. 620-345-8595 ---------2009 Dodge Journey SXT with 3rd row seating. 98K $6,900.00. El Dorado, Ks. 620-583-5388 ---------2012 Dodge Durango SXT all wheel drive, new tires, loaded and very clean 87K $15,995.00. El Dorado, Ks. 620-583-5388 ---------2014 Ford Fusion Hybrid SE 4dr Sedan $13,495 Special $13,295 70,541 Miles 1-OWNER SE HYBRID 4DR LOADED . TILT, CRUISE, CLIMATE CONTROL AIR 620-663-2106 Hutchinson, KS mccurdymotor.com ---------2012 Dodge Grand Caravan R/T 4dr MiniVan Price: $13,995 88,413 Miles RT PKG. LOADED WITH EXTRA’S ! FRONT AND REAR HEAT AND AIR, CD/ DVD PLAYER. 620-663-2106 Hutchinson, KS mccurdymotor.com ---------2007 Chevrolet Suburban LT 1500 4dr SUV 4WD Price: $15,995 Special $14,895 127,717 Miles 4 WD, TILT, CRUISE, POWER WINDOW LOCKS AND MIRRORS, SUNROOF, CD PLAYER WITH DVD. 620-663-2106 Hutchinson, KS mccurdymotor.com

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Move More for a Healthy Heart (Family Features) While heart health and how to prevent heart disease are important topics, many people in the United States – African Americans, in particular – remain at risk. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans ages 18-49 are almost twice as likely as Caucasians to die from heart disease. Additionally, about 33 percent of African Americans ages 35-49 and 61 percent ages 50-64 have high blood pressure, which is a major risk factor for heart disease. However, there are

many ways for you to lower your risk for heart disease, and one of the most important is by becoming physically active. National guidelines recommend at least 2 hours, 30 minutes of moderate-intensity physical activity per week for adults, like brisk walking where your blood gets pumping and you are a little breathless. If you find yourself short of time, you can incorporate physical activity in small chunks, such as three 10-minute intervals per day, and still achieve some heart health benefits. How Moving More Helps

When done regularly, physical activity can give your entire body – not just your heart – a boost. Getting your heart rate up and breaking a sweat can: * Strengthen heart muscles * Improve blood flow * Lower blood pressure and cholesterol levels * Help control weight Ways to Become More Active Every Day In addition to working toward at least 150 minutes of physical activity each week, it’s important to avoid being sedentary, when possible. You can do that by making choices that build activity in your

day. Some examples include: * Taking the stairs * Printing at the printer farthest from your desk at work. * Getting off the bus one stop early * Parking in the farthest space from the door * Walking around while you are on the phone or having walking meetings * Being active with your children, including playing outdoors * Planning a vacation that includes physical activities * Playing basketball or taking a yoga class with friends instead of meeting up for drinks or

a meal * Putting on some music and dancing Check with Your Doctor Certain physical activities are safe for most people. However, if you have a chronic health condition such as heart disease, arthritis or diabetes, talk with your doctor about the type and amount of physical activity that is right for your health. Incorporating regular physical activity into your life can help your health in many ways, but it can be especially helpful for your heart. Find more heart-healthy facts and tips from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute at nhlbi.nih.gov.

Knepp Farm Auction Saturday March 3rd, 9:00 A.M. Location: 5716 E Longview Rd Haven Ks 67543 1 mile North and 1.5 East of Yoder, KS

Tractors: 1967 JD 4020 Diesel w/100 Hrs since overhaul, restored and excellent condition; 1979 IH 1066 Diesel w/Turbo, new injectors, rebuilt block w/7k Hrs; 2005 NH TL100A Diesel w/3900 Hrs.; Gas Engine for 3000 Ford(used); Hay Equipment: 2002 New Holland BR 750 Round Baler (4’), baled approx.6250 bales w/net wrap and applicator; Tubeline M500 Bale Wrapper (Hi Moister); Mac Don 5000 Hydro Swing Swather; NH #276 Small Square Baler(twine); Vermeer WR 24 12 Wheel Rake; SynTrex 10 Wheel rake-3 pt; NH #55 Rollbar Rake; 16’ and 20’ Bale Elevators; 40’ Portable Bale Elevator; 4 Hay Racks. Farm Equipment: JD 6601 Pull Type Combine; JD 7000 6 row Planter; JD 8300 DBL Disc Drill; NH M-352 Grinder Mixer; NH M-518 Manure Spreader(new floor); Krause M-613 ,16’ Disc(20” blades); Krause M-612,14’ Disc; Krause M-1053, 11’ Offset Disc; Hesston M-2240, 24’ Field Cultivator; Crust Buster 28’ Field Cultivator; Graham 15’ Chisel w/ Noble Evener; Krause M-270,11’ Chisel w/sweeps; IH M-510, 4-18 Semi Mount Plow; IH 4-14 Semi Mount Plow; IH 3 Bt Plow; Moridge 22’ and 24’ Springtooth; Custom 12’ Disc; Ford 3-16 Plow(3pt); JD 6 Row Rotary Hoe(3pt); Cobey Silage Wagon; 2-4 Row Cultivators; 1-6 Row Cultivator; 2-200bu Gravity Wagon; 1-160bu Gravity wagon; 300 Gal Field Sprayer w/30’ Boom; Clay- MTA210 Honey Wagon(800 gal); 2 Gehl Hi-Throw Silage Blowers; Blower Pipes; 21’ and 30’ Grain Augers(6”); 4” Filling Auger; Independent 7’ Whirlcut Mower(1000RPM PTO); 16’ Tandem Axle Flatbed; Lowe Post hole Digger w/9” Auger for Skid Loader; WW 6x16 Livestock Trailer; Flare Box; Dbl Hopper 100Bu Gravity Wagon; 3 Section Flex Harrow; JD Drills for parts; Old Equipment and Misc Steel; Equipment Tires and Wheels; Wheel Weights; Pickup Bed Stock Rack; 6’x12’ Flatbed Trailer; Misc Farm Items: Pioneer Fore Cart; Hack Buggy; Pony Cart; Buggy Wheels; Steel Wheels; Wire cattle Panels; 2-Round Bale Feeders(heavy duty); Steel Tanks; 8’ Stock Tanks; Stroberg Fence Line Feeders; CalfSheep Feeders and Tanks; Cattle Feed Bunks; Steel Frame Hog Panels; 2 Farrowing Crates; Pride of The Farm Hog Feeders; Tender Foot Nursery Flooring; Hog Squeeze Chute; Lick Tank; 5 Trailer Loads of Farm and Livestock Misc; 6 to 8 Implement Cylinders; Lots of Hyd Hoses ,3 Spool Valves and Fittings; Log Chains; Fertilizer and Seed Boxes for Kinsey Planter; 3 -11’x12’ Livestock Shelters(steel); Windmill Parts; Fuel Tanks and Stands; Line Shaft Assembly; Dixon Ram ZTR 44” Mower; Craftsman 42” Riding Mower; Ariens Rear Tine Tiller; Misc. Shop Tools; Butchering Items and Supplies; plus more. Household and Collectibles: Dining Room Table and 5 Chairs; 3 Pc Bedroom Suite; Oak Glider Rocker w/ ottoman; Misc. Glassware; Household Items and Collectibles; plus items not listed.

Owners: Clayton and Ann Knepp

Morris Yoder Auctions 620-899-6227 E-mail… [email protected] Website….morrisauctions.com

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K-State Livestock and Meat Industry Council to recognize Kansan during 48th annual Stockmen’s Dinner on March 1 MANHATTAN, Kan. -- Kansas cattleman Sam Hands will be recognized by the Livestock and Meat Industry Council on Thursday, March 1 as the 2018

Stockman of the Year. The award will be presented during the annual Stockmen’s Dinner beginning at 6 p.m. at the Four Points by Sheraton Hotel in

Manhattan. A fourth-generation cattleman, Hands began his career in the beef industry in 1957 by purchasing 12 bred Angus heifers with his dad, Fielding. While attending Kansas State University, Sam served as a State FFA Officer and received the American Farmer Degree. He was a member of the meat, wool and livestock judging teams, Alpha Gamma Rho fra-ternity and Block & Bridle. He graduated with a degree in animal sciences and industry with a business op-tion in 1970. He served as a lieutenant in the U.S.

Army, then returned to the family operation, Triangle H, in 1973. To-day, Triangle H has two farm feedyards and primarily markets its cattle through U.S. Premium Beef, which they invested in as a founding member. Over the years, Triangle H has performed custom heifer breeding projects, developed breeding bulls, back-grounding and finishing cattle. The farm produces irrigated corn, soybeans, grain sorghum, wheat and al-falfa in Finney, Kearney and Haskell counties with grassland in Clark County. The cow-calf portion of the

operation has expanded into satellite herds throughout Kansas and neighboring states. Hands said he strives to be a good steward of the land and to engage in sound animal husbandry practices. He focuses on working to optimize pounds of commodity produced and gaining extra market value through a higher quality product. He believes it’s about converting rain and sunshine into a desirable and nutritious product for the consumer. To learn more about Hands and his leadership in the beef industry, register for the Stockmen’s Dinner

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by Feb. 22. The cost to attend is $50/person. Registration is available online at www.found. ksu.edu/rsvp/asi or by contacting Chelsea Albrecht at 785-5327584. Also, the 105th Annual K-State Cattlemen’s Day will be held on Friday, March 2. Hosted in Weber Hall, the day will start at 8 a.m. with refreshments, educational exhibits and a commercial trade show. The program begins at 10 a.m. and lunch is provided. Visit KSUBeef.org for a detailed schedule and registration infor-mation. Following Cattlemen’s Day, the 41st Annual Legacy Sale will begin at 3:30 p.m. at the Stanley Stout Center. The sale includes 29 bulls and 37 registered females. To learn more about this year’s offering and to re-quest a sale catalog, visit asi.ksu. edu/legacysale. For questions about any of the events, please contact Lois Schreiner at 785-532-1267 or [email protected].

Trucks 2007 Chrysler PT Cruiser Touring 4dr Wagon Price: $3,595 117,307 Miles TILT, CRUISE, POWER WINDOWS LOCKS AND MIRRORS, 620-663-2106 Hutchinson, KS mccurdymotor.com

Motorcycles Want old & junk motorcycles. Prefer 1960’s/70’s. 785-545-6020

Trailers

MORRIS YODER, AGENT/AUCTIONEER - (620) 899-6227 - www.morrisauctions.com RIGGIN AND COMPANY REAL ESTATE - (316) 773-3535 - www.rigginhomes.com RUSTY RIGGIN, BROKER - (316) 633-3535 - [email protected]

Sale by Order of: Terrance and Robin Sharkey Sellers

SUTTER TRAILER SALES, LLC, full line of trailers, suttermfg.com 417-766-8346 Nixa, MO ---------We Rent - LeaseSell grain and livestock trailers call Tom 316-821-9664 irelandsales.net ---------2000 16ft. Donahue Contractor Trailer. Fold Down sides/electric hydraulic dump. 620-727-5941 ---------1995 Timpte $11,500; 2008 Timpte triple axle $24,750, 2011 Timpte $26,000. 785-747-8239 ---------NEW and USED MAS Silage Trailers, air-ride suspension, hydraulic end-gate or barn doors, heavy-duty floor chain for manure hauling. Call 580-366-5488 or visit us on facebook at facebook.com/ mastrailers1

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Trailers

Heavy Equip

Parts, Repairs & Supplies

Lawn & Garden

13 ft. Trailer, single axle, 13 1/2 ft. x 7ft. w/sides. $290. 316-806-9208

D5N LGP, CAB, HEAT, air, 95% undercarriage, $50,000. Can Deliver. 816-225-1152 ---------JD 850C, NEW UNDERCARRIAGE, cab, heat, AC, Good high hour machine, excellent condition. $35,000. Can Deliver. 816-225-1152 ---------EQUIPMENT UNLIMITED, INC. Trucks & Sales WE BUY AND SELL: Dozers; backhoes, skidsteers, dump trucks, bucket trucks, semis, trailers of all sizes; forklifts, various quick attachments. Call Larry 918-314-1083

REBUILT COMBINE sieves, new reel bats, galvanized or black. Call 580-361-2265 806-681-5532 ---------Cylinder Head Repair, LLC, 50 years of rebuilding cylinder heads, guaranteed. 1035 SW Street. 800-626-5614 WICHITA, KS. 67213

Large selection of used ZERO TURN mowers and parts for all brands. 316-943-0201, WICHITA ---------Many well-running mowers and tillers for sale. 316-321-6749

ATV 2010 Kawasaki ATV4x4 750, Fuel Injected, New Tires $4375. 316-806-9208

Construction Equip 2006 JCB 506C Long Reach, 2097 hrs., 4WD, all new paint decals, ran through shop. $33,900, 405-494-8302 jacksqualityused equipment.com.

Heavy Equip Cat D6 C straight tilt dozer blade, engine rebuilt, toue provider transmission gone though, new bearings, oil filter, new cutting edges on dozer blade. 402-841-5891

Parts, Repairs & Supplies YOUR PARTS REBUILT since 1960 316-200-1705 316-445-2285

Salvage Buying for Salvage combines, tractors, round balers and swathers. Currently salvaging 7,000 units. Need Parts? Call for good used, and replacement parts. MIKE’S EQUIPMENT CO. 620-543-2535 BUHLER ---------PARTING OUT: 9750 JD, 9770 JD. 785-443-3065

Appliances

Wilson’s Appliance (316) 794-2972, 16701 W. 54 Hwy Goddard, OPEN Monday-Saturday 9:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Service calls 49.95, We have parts for most appliances or can get them, New and refurbished appliances, a lot more in the store. $75 & up. Military & Senior citizen discounts. AFTER CHRISTMAS SALE, BUY ONE, get one free.

NOW through March 18th

Firewood For Sale: Well Cured Hedge Firewood, Hutchinson area. 620-728-9043 ---------Seasoned Walnut, other hardwood $75/ ric. 620-463-2805. Evenings. ---------FIREWOOD FOR SALE SEASONED AND SPLIT  free local delivery. 620-899-2190 Hutchinson

To Place Your Classified Ad Call 620-465-4636

800-374-6988

On All Buildings

Purchase a building BEFORE March 5th and $AVE even more!

March 17th – March 18th Saturday ● 8 AM to 5 PM Sunday ● 9 AM to 3 PM

Open House Locations

167 Hwy 59 Richmond, Kansas 785-835-6100

303 S. Kansas Ave. Haven, Kansas 620-465-2785

321 W. 5th St. Scott City, Kansas 620-765-4229

Open House Grand Prize Give-A-Way. One lucky customer will receive an additional $1,000 off their building purchase!

www.qualitystructures.com

6 Tracts of Republic County KANSAS LAND SELLING AT UNRESERVED ONLINE AUCTION

BIDDING PROCESS: You may place bids on this farm beginning February 16. Bidding concludes on March 2. This unreserved online auction features bidding extensions. If a bid is received within five minutes of the scheduled ending time, the bidding period is automatically extended for five more minutes. The extension process will continue until there is a five-minute period where no bids are placed.

NOTE: Do not wait until the last day of the auction to register to bid online. All bidders must be approved to bid. Register at least 24 hours prior to the last auction day or call 402-564-3369 for assistance. The bidding increments will be $50 per acre. The final sale price will be calculated on a per acre basis times the highest bid received on each tract.

For more information on this unreserved online land auction please visit our website www.bigironrealty.com

Attend The Online Auction Information Meeting BigIron Realty Agents will be at American Legion Hall 193 507 Cloud St. Scandia, KS 66966 ON March 1 from 2:00pm to 6:00pm and on March 2 from 8:00am until the end of the online auction. BigIron Representatives will be there to assist buyers with registering to bid online. Please come during the times to discuss the farm or call Mark Stock, listing agent at 402-276-2077. You do not have to be present to bid online.

BIDDING OPENS FEBRUARY 16 AND ENDS ON MARCH 2 AT 10AM

Seller: ROBISON FARMS INC Listing Agent Mark Stock Broker 402-276-2077

REALTY www.bigironrealty.com

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Channel Seed Giveaway at 3i SHOW DODGE CITY – Channel Seed is giving one lucky attendee free seed valued at over $600 at this year’s 3i SHOW. The 64th Annual 3i SHOW is being held March 22-24 at the Western State Bank Expo Center in Dodge City. Stop by Channel’s booth at space I-213 throughout the show to sign up for a chance to win either two bags of corn seed or 12 bags of soybean seed. The winner will be selected on Saturday, March 24, at 3:30 p.m. Channel corn seed genetics are sourced

globally and tested locally, allowing Channel Seedsmen to bring choices with superior performance potential. They offer a wide range of trait choices to protect the yield potential those genetics deliver. Channel Soybeans offer enhanced genetic diversity and more options for more growing conditions with improved disease tolerance and yield potential. Seedsmanship is what truly sets Channel apart from other seed brands. It’s their unmatched ability to

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provide expert advice and customized service that helps get the most yield per acre. It’s the added value of yearround service combined with elite seed products that is only available from Channel. Channel provides a hands-on approach to help the farmer and their operation succeed. For information on more events or how to secure exhibit space at this year’s 3i SHOW, visit www.3ishow.com, like and follow the 3i SHOW on Facebook and Twitter, or contact the Western Kansas Manufacturers Association (WKMA) office directly toll-free at 877-405-2883 or locally at 620-2278082. WKMA’s office is located at 1700 E. Wyatt Earp in Dodge City, Kansas.

Social Sec Disability

Wanted

Wanted

SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY CLAIMS Saunders & Saunders, Attorneys at Law. No Recovery, No Fee 800-259-8548

WANTED TO BUY: Round or square bales ALFALFA, all cuttings. 620-786-0589 ---------AMERICAN WALNUT buying standing walnut timber, 25 or more trees. 816-232-6781 Saint Joseph, MO. ---------Wanted: Barn wood primitives turned porch post, doors and windows. 620-382-6393 ---------WANTED - WOOD FENCE BOARDS, You Call, We’ll Haul, Mike 316-650-8012 WICHITA ---------Wanted: 1986 Haven Centennial book in good condition. 316-288-1344 WHITEWATER ---------WANTED: ALL METALS!! Cars, Trucks, Scraps, Washers/Dryers, Batteries, Aluminum, Catalytic Converters, Etc. FREE PICKUP! 316-284-1811 NEWTON ---------70% of readers took some action as a result of advertising seen in a NEWSPAPER.

Wanted four Rogator 854 Sprayers, high hours or salvage. 620-428-1274 ---------Buying MILITARY ITEMS from pre-Civil War to present. Also AUTHENTIC INDIAN ARTIFACTS. Call 417-438-0619 ---------Looking for farmer/ rancher wanting to slow down - would like to help manage & invest in the future in Hutchinson/McPherson area. Experience w/ my own cattle & farm 785-822-4821 ---------WANTED: junk cars, farm machinery, old combines, tractors, implements, etc. also catalytic converters, alum wheels, radiators, aluminum pipe. Scrap License #16-010370. 316-650-7482 ANDALE ---------Wanted: OLD TRUCKS, pickups to road tractors. Also AEROMOTOR windmills. 620-791-7763 ---------NEED GRASS FOR 50 PAIRS, WILLING TO PAY GOOD MONEY FOR GOOD GRASS. 620-770-0560 ---------Wanted: ‘69-’72 Chevy GMC Blazer, Suburban or Pickup; Any Condition. 785-534-0992 ---------I would like to purchase an OIL WELL or land with mineral rights to drill one of my own. 605-360-4797 ---------WANTED: 12in. PLASTIC aeration tubing. Dennis, Cell 785-738-8418

Sporting Goods TILSON TAXIDERMY 40 Years, Full Time. 316-744-8107 316-258-7182 ---------BUYING FIREARMS. Top dollar paid Singles or entire collections. Prefer military WWI & WWII. 620-282-0119

Boats Wanted: Pontoon boat - 20 foot or less, with no engine or bad engine. 620-727-2092

Wanted I Pay $10-$100 for catalytic converters. I also buy junk starters, alternators & transmissions. 316-210-6027 ---------Wanted: Salvage Farm, Oil Field and other scrap metals. 316-650-0327 MOUNT HOPE ----------

Medical Assisted living care provided to 60+ by CNA in private residence. 316-312-6784

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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 24, 2018 10:00 AM AUCTION LOCATION: 314 N. GORDY - IN THE ALLEY & 407 N GORDY, EL DORADO 1000’S OF SILVER COINS * GOLD JEWELRY * ANTIQUES * OIL & GAS * POST CARDS * GUNS * APPLIANCES * FURNITURE * STAINED GLASS * TOOLS * COLLECTIBLES * PEDAL CARS * ADVERTISING ITEMS * MANY ITEMS BOXED AWAY!

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Does Today’s Economy Make Retirement Impossible? Life in retirement, which once conjured images of golf and sunsets at the beach, took on a drearier edge in recent years as more people realize they are unprepared financially to stop working. The Washington Post has called it “the new reality of old age” and quoted one 74-yearold man saying he will need to work until he dies. For those who have retired, a Fidelity study found that 55 percent are at risk of running out of money before their lives end. Think of this statistic—more than half of those surveyed aren’t prepared. Are you? “When the stock market was falling in 2008, I had prospective clients share with me they had lost tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, and some even shared how many years of work they had lost,” says Troy Bender, president and CEO of Asset Retention Services Inc. (www.asset-retention. com). “They wanted the losses to stop, and they were desperately looking for help.” In addition to the recession, several other

factors contributed to their retirement woes. Most businesses no longer offer pensions, so retirees must rely more on their savings. People also need to rely more on Social Security, but Social Security replaces usually only 40 percent of a person’s pre-retirement earnings. In addition, according to Social Security, they have shared on their website that they may end up paying 75 cents on the dollar in 2033. All of this raises the question: Is it even possible to retire in today’s economy? The answer is “yes,” Bender says, but even

those who planned well and saved plenty need to be careful as they near, and enter retirement. With many clients in their 80’s and some in their 90’s—we all have to plan to live a lot longer. A few tips to help retirees and pre-retirees protect and grow their money include: • Know when to take Social Security. If you don’t choose the most advantageous time to start drawing Social Security, you could leave a lot of money on the table. Several factors can come into play here depending on your personal situation, so

it’s best to seek professional advice. Employees at your local Social Security office generally aren’t equipped to give you that kind of advice. • Live by the “Rule of 100.” This is critically important. In the investing world, the “Rule of 100” says that the percentage of a person’s portfolio that should be in stocks should be equal to 100 minus their age. So, for example, someone who is 60 should have 40 percent of their portfolio in stocks and the other 60 percent should be in bonds or other lower-risk investments. “If you aren’t

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living by the ‘Rule of 100,’ you should be, especially if you are 50 or older,” Bender says. • Plan for longterm care. A person who turns 65 today has nearly a 70 percent chance of needing some type of long-term care services at some point, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The cost can be devastating, so it’s important to plan financially for this likely eventuality. One option is long-term care insurance. “Sometimes people expect a family member to take care of them in these situations, but I encourage

people not to be a burden to someone else,” Bender says. “The stock market is on a high right now, but we all know from experience that this situation is not going to last forever,” Bender says. “The closer you are to retirement–or are currently in retirement–the less time you have to recover from a downturn in the market. No one wants to be forced to continue working in retirement or to change their lifestyle because they experienced major erosion in their retirement portfolio due to circumstances beyond their control.”

Auctions Every Wednesday! No Buyer Fees! www.bigiron.com

UNRESERVED ONLINE AUCTION WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Storage STURDI-BILT Storage Containers Winter Sale $150-200 off all inventory

800-281-5998 HUTCHINSON ----------40’ Grade A Steel Cargo Containers $1650.00 in KC.  $1950.00 in Solomon Ks.  20s’ 45s’ 48s & 53s’ also available Call 785 655 9430 or go online to Chuckhenry.com for pricing, availability & Freight estimates. ------------Semi Van Trailers for Storage 45’. $1400. Delivery Possible. 620-491-0573

Services Tree stump grinding. Any size of stump. Call Troy for free estimates at 620-960-1659. Insured. BURRTON -------------Got JUNK? Let Holler Junk Removal help you today! Hutchinson and McPherson areas. 620-755-3168 ----------

Ryan Boeckner - 620-345-3617

Moundridge, KS 67107 Dennis Unruh, Sales Rep - 620-386-0503 Items selling: 01 Case IH MX240 Magnum Tractor; 90 Case IH 1680 Axial Flow Rotary Combine; EZ Trail 500 Grain Cart; Great Plains 3S-3000 Grain Drill; 98 International 9100 Truck Tractor; 89 International 1954 Grain Truck; 89 Merritt 81 1143 Grain Trailer; Case IH 330 Turbo True Tandem Vertical Till; 04 Case IH 1020 Flex Header; Case IH 1200 8R30 Planter; many more items selling! Visit www.bigiron.com for details and complete listings!

Time to sell your equipment! Call Today! 1-800-937-3558

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Services

Services

Custom Swathing and Baling * Joshua Wood 316-680-0510 ---------CRITTER GETTER Wildlife Nuisance & Damage Control, gophers & moles too! NADC #152-2011. Rod 620-543-2649 BUHLER ---------DISC ROLLING INCREASES BLADE SIZE RESTORES DISC. DAVID MURRAY. 785475-4463 ---------So-Kan Exhaust Shop Stock Replacement to Full Custom Exhaust. 620-200-3414 620-899-0396 Hutchinson

AM Farrier Services... Professional... Dedicated... Reliable... 785-383-3961 ---------Kape Roofing & GUTTERS Established 1991. Residential all types & Commercial Roofs. CALL 785-826-2577 ---------HERSHBERGER CONTRACTING: Specializing in Metal Roofing & Replacement Windows! Justin 620-899-2652 HUTCHINSON ---------General & termite PEST CONTROL. BUG STOPPERS 316-283-2847 316-990-8851 NEWTON, KS.

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RICHARDSON TREE SERVICE Tree Removal, Trimming, Stump Grinding &, Pasture Clearing, Firewood. Licensed/Insured/ Free Estimates. Marcus R. 620-727-1267 HAVEN

$$ ATTENTION $$  BUYING CLASSIC antique cars and trucks. Running or not. also gas pumps, tractors, farm equipment and old signs. I pay cash up to $1000/ up. I buy one or all on property. Honest, trustworthy and fair. Call ME 417-234-5154

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Juanita’s Tax Svc

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South Hutchinson Tues - Fri 10-6 Saturday 10-2

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AGAPE ROOFING & CONSTRUCTION. Roofing, windows, siding, & guttering. Licensed & Insured. 316-807-8650

HVAC Vent cleaning. Doesn’t include flexible ducting. 316-209-7966 WICHITA AND SURROUNDING

Tires Guaranteed Used Truck tires, most sizes. GeeTire.com, Rossville, Ks. 785-231-8397

Auctions Andrew Turner Auctions; Auction Every Thursday @ 6pm; 1801 Guinotte, Kansas City, MO http://atakc.com/ ---------LARGE AUCTION March 1st, 9:30AM. (2) Forage Harvesters, 7380 w/400 hrs; 7480 w/900 hrs.; ( 2) 9770 Swathers, 2000 hrs.; 225 Case FWD 2000 hrs.; JD 8235 FWD 2100 hrs. Harvest, Hay, and Industrial equipment, too numerous to mention. 844-502-9361. Check our website for more details. perkinsauctioneers. com DALHART, TX. --------------

FARM EQPT. AUCTION

SAT., MARCH 3 @ 10:00 A.M. SELLERS: CAYWOOD FARM, INC. LOCATION: 1845 8TH ROAD, RAYMOND, KS 67573

DIRECTIONS: FROM CHASE, KS & US 56—GO 5½ MI. S

TRACTORS: JD 8770 4WD, 4 SCV, 11,049 Hrs.; JD 4755 MFWD PS, 10,680 Hrs., JD 280 Frt. Ldr. & Grapple, 3-Pt., PTO; JD 4555 2WD, 10,000+ Hrs.; JD 4430 QR, Farmhand F258 Frt. Ldr., JD 4240 PS w/JD 158 Frt. Ldr., 6,778 Hrs., `66 JD 4020 w/PS, 3-Pt. & PTO; Super M Farmall w/Wire Roller; H Farmall, As Is. COMBINE & HARVESTING: JD 9750 STS Combine, Duals, 4703 Eng. Hrs. 3746 Sep. Hrs., 42” Duals; JD 853A Rowhead; JD 930F Flex Head, Single Point Hook-Up; JD 936D Rigid Draper, Bat Reel, Single Point Hook-Up; Frontier GL1107 Grain Cart; (2) Unverferth Hdr. Trlrs.; `85 Wilson Pace Setter Hopper Btm., 43’ Hi Side. PLANTERS, DRILLS & FARM IMPLEMENTS: JD 8-Row Max-Emerge + Planter, Sunco Fert. Openers & Residue Manager, Ground Drive, 4-70 Gal. Fert. Tanks; JD 8200 20-8 Drill, Single Disc; JD 455 Grain Drill, 35’, 7½” w/Markers; Quinstar Fallow Master II, 32’ w/Pickers, M.4-28; JD 825 Cult.; Blu-Jet in Row Ripper; 8-Row Krause 475 Ripper-Appl.; Krause 4231 Field Cond. w/Hyd. Hitch; Krause 4129 Field Cult., 29’ w/Harrows; JD 2800 8-Btm Plow; JD 3600 6-Btm Plow; JD 23-50-2450 6-Btm Plow; Blanchat 11-Btm Plow w/Sterling Packer; Krause Packers, 33’ X-Fold; Krause 4400 Packers, 30’ X-Fold; Krause Chisel 3500; Krause 4990 Disc, 32’; Elston 3-Pt. Gopher Getter; 3-T Dry Fert. Sprdr.; 10’ & 12’ Speed Movers; 20’ JD 3-Pt. 400 Rotary Hoe; Speed King PTO 8” x 50’ Auger. TRUCKS, PICKUPS & TRAILERS: `01 Ford F150 XL, 5.4L Triton V8, 4x4, 165,468 Mi.; `95 Frtliner, 770,071 Mi., Eaton Super 10, 3176 CAT; `87 Int’l S-190 Feed Truck, 101,332 Mi., Roto-Mix Forage Express 414-14B Feed Mixer; `76 Ford F-600, 35,816 Mi., Midwest Body w/Hoist, V-8, 5x2-Sp.; `74 Ford F-600, 39,166 Mi., Knapheide Body w/Hoist, Tip-Tops,, V8, 4x2Sp.; `74 Ford F-600, V-8, 5x2-Sp. w/Hyd. Auger; `74 Ford F-350 Winch Truck; `74 Ford F-600 38,521 Mi., Butler Oswalt 320; `73 Ford F-600, 50,551 Mi., V-8, 5x2-Sp.; `70 Ford 6000 71,941 Mi., 18’ Midwest Box w/Hoist; `40’s Ford F-6 Truck, As Is; `92 Travalong 6x20 G-neck Stock Trlr.; `79 J&W 6x18 G-neck Stock Trlr. HAY, LIVESTOCK & IRR.: Hesston BP25 Bale Processor; JD 680 Manure Sprdr.; Pearson Cattle Chute. FOR MORE INFO CALL DOUG CAYWOOD @ 620-204-0301, DANNY THOMAS @ 620-938-2378 or ZACH FREDERICK @ 620-278-6547 Partial Listing Only. Check Our Website for More Information or Call For Brochure.

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EVERY FRIDAY at 5pm

101 W. 29th N. • Wichita, KS

Live auction Furniture * Appliances Vehicles, Lawn Equipment Misc. Items WE ALSO CONDUCT AUCTIONS ON SITE: • ESTATES • BUSINESS Liquidations • PERSONAL & BUSSINESS APPRAISALS • Online & Live Auctions • Real Estate

Bud Palmer Auction (316) 838-4141 Weigand Auctions -Obtaining maximum value for your agricultural land, residential, personal property, or commercial real estate. John Rupp, ALC or Terry Rupp, ALC (316) 262-6400 J.P. Weigand & Sons, Inc. www.WeigandAuctions.com

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Good and Poor Performance Trends in Kansas Nursing Homes Kansas Advocates for Better Care (KABC) annually releases information on performance of Kansas nursing facilities. KABC tracks and reports information on quality in longterm care as a public service. The following looks statewide at Kansas nursing facility performance trends – good and poor – in meeting defined health and care standards for older Kansans. Good Performance Trends: Facilities which achieve consistent compliance with health and safety standards; are cited for zero to five deficient health practices; are not cited for any deficient practice which caused harm or put a person at risk of serious harm; and have maintained this level of performance consistently over the past three annual inspection cycles. Six (6) nursing homes in Kansas were cited with 0 to 5 deficiencies over the look back period of the facility’s three most recent annual inspections covering 36 to 60

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Auction Winfield Fairground Mar 24th Walnut Valley Festival Items, guns, coins, Furniture, more 620-262-7296 WINFIELD

GOPHER/PRAIRIE DOG control, use Zink Phosphide oat bait, Ramick Green bait stations for rats and mice. Delivery available. Spring Creek Ag Products. Inc. 800-432-5672 ---------Debbyes Sewing/ Designing.... 316-295-7267

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months. Five (5) of the facilities listed are not-for-profit corporations and one (1) is a for-profit corporation. For the six facilities listed, none of the citations received were for “actual harm of a resident”, “immediate jeopardy of residents”, or “mistreatment of a resident” in the nursing facility. Poor Performance Trends: By contrast seventy-eight (78) of the 346 nursing facilities in Kansas were cited for 10 or more health safety deficiencies for each of the last three annual inspections. 57 of these nursing homes are for-profit corporations, 21 are non-profit corporations. In the past 18 months, 66 facilities on the list were cited for deficiencies that resulted in ‘actual harm’ to residents or put them in ‘immediate jeopardy’ of being harmed. In the list below these facilities are identified by shaded background. To read the entire report, please visit the KABC website: http://www.kabc. org/wp-content/up-

February 21, 2018

Supporting residents of Mennonite Friendship Communities

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5-8 p.m. Friday, February 23 at Journey@Yoder, 1 mile north of Yoder on Yoder Road All proceeds go to the Continuing Care Endowment Fund at 600 W. Blanchard, South Hutchinson, KS 67505

For more information, call (620) 663-7175 or visit www.MennoFriend.com