Ostriches Earn Tuition Edge For Aspiring Lawyer
John R Cassida, a Central Heights freshman, plans to fund his legal career through ostrich farming. Olivia the ostrich laid 18 eggs between July and Sept 23 but none hatched. The Cassidas incubated eggs this year and expect Oliver the male to sit on future nests next year.
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Diane Yermans
Rantoul
John R. Cassida
Central Heights
John
Anna
Olivia
Cassidas
Cassida
Oliver
Farm birds and fences guard Cassida menagerie
Mrs Cassida explains how Oliver the goose and Olivia the hen keep their distance by nesting near opposite corners while a line of hardware cloth atop the cyclone fence prevents Oliver from tearing at others. The Cassidas maintain two wild Canadian geese and a varied flock on their 10 acre property, with penned spaces and specific diets for ducks, geese, peacocks, and the ostriches.
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Cassida
Missouri
Gypsie
Taluis
Cassidas
Farmers Invest Wheat For Stocks In Kansas Venture
Kansas First Corporation launches AgriVentures, a stock offering backed by one million shares sold in exchange for No. 2 hard red winter wheat. Minimum 2,500 shares. Wheat is marketed later to fund energy and real estate ventures. Rees Dilger notes tax savings and asset diversification for farmers.
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Wichita
HNS
New
Kansas First Corporation
Garvey Industries
Kansas First
AgriVentures, Inc
Rees Dilger
Dilger
Agricentures
AgriVentures
Kansas
Hays
Trucking Seminar Offers Insights at K State Campus
A three day Feed Industry Trucking Seminar at Kansas State University October 25 and 26 will explore why trucking can cost more than feed production. Organized by K State and the American Feed Manufacturers Association, the event targets trucking staff with talks on fleet computerization back hauling driver training and fleet management.
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Manhattan
Kansas State University
K-State
American Feed Manufacturers Association
K-State Union
Big 8
Robert Mcfellhiney
Dave Bossman
AFMA
Bossman
Kstate
McElchiney
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Dave Kaup
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Cancercare
Famerican Family Life Assurance
Fordmar
Soncall
C.A. Boucek
Croucher Abstract & Title Co
Jeanette Croucher
Ottawa, Kansas
Bnaimi
Shelter's
Shelter Life Insurance Company
Nell Satterlee
West
Ottawa
Home
Dick Pene Kaa
Ash
America
Internatio Agricultural
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