MOREMILES AND BETTiR14(, ON OR OFFTHE ROA1)11's Grass & Grain Advertisers 4111111/1111111111 "OlnaStet Important Notice Because New Year's fallson Monday, whichisour regular printing day, Grass & Grainwill 1.1ruck be printed next weekon Satur- Tites day, Dec. 30. This meanswe must receive display advertisingby A TIREFOR EVERY JOB Friday noon, Dec. 29. Classified R PENNEYS AT TIRE I advertising can be acceptedup to HEADQUOTI9:00 am., Sat., Dec. 30. 18th Year No. 43 December 26, 1972 Subscribers will receive their Grass & Grain at the regular time-Tuesday morning. oing Homo% .041 Rol tioAA TAKINGTHEM HOME Everett Smith Hill "push" left, and ArtAdams both four Angusbulls into of Maple Smith, formerly the catchpen. of westernOklahoma, Flint Hillsarea two years moved to the ago because there 'better grass'especially for was FED. TAX ALL 100 Hereford old cows. cows and breeds Smith owns bulls. them to Simmental All the cowsare bred artificially $2.78 Smith. Smithfeels there by Mrs. Simmentals.' is a 'goodfuture with He has hada 40 lb. increase $3.26 6 -PLY with 'A bloodcalves. in weight 52.96 NYLON $3.29 TUBE J(') TYPE The valo v COWS 1290 C 23.10 asfoolialwasli I hoistcow .00011: I 550@ 41.60 995 C 32.00 1 wf cow 520 @ 40.00 960 q23.00 360 @ 38.75 1 wf cow 495 @ 38.00 BULL 360 @ 35.50 1215 g31.30 I blk bull pasture bythemselves all have been in bulls o n LOADING trailer. The bulls and uses theseb EASY crowds his bullsinto the stock Hereford cows Art Adams Adams has 150 "We've been waybehind home to getready for spring. of farm ground. fall and are going herd, Smith operatesa section them. Inaddition to his cow all fall," Adamssaid. &Dennis !neToby alternating with the Commission can "any deer" seasons sex ratios, problems intrying antlered bucks only through the arrive at population estimates anddeer population," to will boost set the season for next year. Poachers asserted? years. An any deer season are stealing Con KansasDeer Hunters the success rate and also lessens the "It's generally unknown by thesportsmen whoare game rest of the public, said Peabody,by the rules." take of bucks so that more of them Peabo,d god'Turnbull animals "but the Kansas deer hunter is our coo saidbw. Board ofTrade can become better trophy take alotof City Good Year the following year. most important asset in a properlysportsmen farmcommodi and lando% of U.S. Chalk Up Peabody added that hunters have managed deer population. Withoutthe poacher 00 programwill 1 the extreme northwest mule deer down, butt: P this yE PRATT-Firearm deer hunters of cooperated extremely well without their annual trimming of the herd,passedlaw tmarket factor successfulcounty, to 8 and 10 percent in the this agricultural state would findnightlighting prohibiting not increas Kansas tucked another the check station system this year. has already they are year under their belts asthe seasonextreme eastern whitetail range. Another system used for thefirst deer quickly over -populating. Themove in that Commenting on the low success of direction. closed last weekend, statedBill time last year and again this season hunterisextremely valuablein reason issimple. Dome Peabody, Emporia, deer biologistofthe eastern deer management units, he keeping deer -vehicle collisions andSTATE WHEAT exports an where hunters report by mail, SUPERIOR QUALITY commercial Peabodyexplainedthatthe AT theForestry,Fishand Game said, is much more efficeintand cropdamage complaintstoa ROYAL this yearthat anything whitetails there are better protected Kansaswheat influen Commission. inexpensive. Hunters arerequired minimum. proved quality total business by woodlands. Also, whitetails are tobe Peabody said the total firearms to send in a report giving the sexand "Besides the good that he does, the superior the American Royal al harvest of nearly 2,200 deer by aboutmore wary than the mule deer of asked deer hunter pays for an extra $10 grain slo sales arenot coming species of their deer and are 22 out of 30 top west, access to inland areas is more permit. You just can't beat that kind plaeings year beta 7,600 hunters is a success rate of 29 to send in the two frontteeth so inti piles this difficult, there was much standing or dark winterwheat does percent-one of the highest rates in biologists can determine the deer's of cooperation," he said. winners clannes4 "surplus" landowner were Kansans, current I the United States where whitetailcorn, and there is more still have "There's one kind of person who is applyto the age. He said if any hunters Hovorka, Caldwell deer predominate. Although morecontrol on the smaller farms. not really a hunter but who is also (protein; cards out they should turn them in as Mater, Olmitz motion. (Public I than 8,000 permits were issued this Out west,mule deerhunters influencingthedeerpopulation. (strong 480program soon as possible. Sidney glult) that aboutusually score better due toless Poaching and failing to comply with Johnson, passed byCongi year, Peabody calculates He explained that with the total Li was protective cover and easier access. (medium gluten). major purposes. five percent of the permit holders, number of deer taken and the age - rules of properly tagging are acute There bedtwo entries this ett surpluseswl for various reasons, didn't make it toThat helps to explain why there are year, themost reduce farm a lot more hunters seekingpermits beginning to the field. gale were U.S. ft The few shy of 4,000 deer archersfor western units, and why those second,to direct totaled a little more than a 600 deerpermits have to be sparingly issued.-LPI:A2B 2LAM1 to countriesaround really in need harvest, a success of 15 percent, Oneregionthatloweredthe ch were INTEREST RATES are down, and NEEDS are UP. money toimi where the U.S. average is only sixoverall take this year was the three (7"e<ell have the northcentral deer management Now is a good time to see your FLBA manager. percent for bow enthusiasts. LANDBANK of units which averaged almost 20 'yivaceaao,/, wing adoption This year's firearms season, Dec. OPEN MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY 8-5 (Closed 12-1) delive 2 through Dec. 6 in the west, butpercent fewer deer harvested than 604 Humboldt - 913/776-6931 Home 913/776-8439 thiscountry through Dec. 10 over the rest of thelast year. Clay Center - 1:00-3:00 p.m. Tuesday - KM Security Bldg. ions ofdollars wort] state, was plagued by unusually cold The biologist pointed out that the odities, mostlygrain temperatures and blowing snow ondecline was primarily due to a countriesaround justabouteverydaybutthechange to an "antlered buck only" Federal Land Bank Association OF MANHATTAN, KANSAS several years of l opening.Still,with the weather,season and hunters had to pass up SERVING R. Stanley Pe 3 first more restrictive regulations inshots at other deer. He said deer CLAY GEARY POTTAWATOMI E RILEY COUNTIES Manager several units and 600 fewer permits,management principalswillfind hunters came up just a little short of Income last year's firearms take of 2,569. ate Peabody declared he was a little surprised, extremely pleased and axForms sort of proud of the Kansas deer hunter's harvest this year under all the Mail those adverse conditions. State income taxfoi Although there were 400 fewer 825,752 archers licensed than in 1971, the been mailedto non-resident individt bow and arrow people took 31 more uals, corporations,officials in deer this year. said. On the firearms season, Peabody ion of Revenue said the statewide success of 29 Ile Divisionof Revenue percent varied from 57 percent in non-resident individual s were mailed, anincrease number of s GRASS & GRAIN 10,000 over the The Mid -Kansas newsweekly pub- sent out last year. 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