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GENERAL NOTICE TO CONTROL NOXIOUS WEEDS

 The Kansas Noxious Weed Law K.S.A. 2-1314 et seq requires all persons who own or
supervise land in Kansas to control and eradicate all weeds declared noxious by legislative
action. The weeds declared noxious are: field bindweed, musk thistle, Johnsongrass, bur
ragweed, Canada thistle, sericea lespedeza, leafy spurge, hoary cress, quackgrass, Russian
knapweed, kudzu and pignut.

Bull Thistle is County Option Noxious Weed declared noxious by the Board of County
Commissioners of Gove County.

Notice is hereby given pursuant to the Kansas Noxious Weed Law to every person who owns or
supervises land in County that noxious weeds growing or found on such land shall be controlled
and eradicated. Control is defined as preventing the production of viable seed and the
vegetative spread of the plant.

Failure to observe this notice may result in the County:

          1. Serving a legal notice requiring control of the noxious weeds within a minimum of
five days. Failure to control the noxious weeds within the time period allowed may
result in the county treating the noxious weeds at the landowners expense and
placing a lien on the property if the bill is not paid within 30 days or,

         2. Filing criminal charges for non-compliance. Conviction for non-compliance may
result in a fine of $100 per day of non-compliance with a maximum fine of $1,500.

The public is also hereby notified that it is a violation of the Kansas Noxious Weed Law to
barter, sell or give away infested nursery stock or livestock feed unless the feed is fed on the
farm where grown or sold to a commercial processor that will destroy the viability of the noxious
weed seed. Custom harvesting machines must be labeled with a label provided by the Kansas
Department of Agriculture and must be free of all weed seed and litter when entering the State
and when leaving a field infested with noxious weeds. Additional information may be obtained
from the Gove County Noxious Weed Department or by contacting the Kansas Department of
Agriculture, 1320 Research Park Drive, Manhattan, KS 66502.