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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1926
Page
5
Iowa farm income for 1925 reached 712 million dollars with dairy and livestock driving gains. Dairy products brought 121 million, beef and sheep sales added 97 million and 5 million respectively, while livestock sales totaled 339 million after feeder costs. Corn and oats contributed 65 and 29 million, with crop sales totaling about 141 million.
ALGONA IOWA DEC 15 Iowa state brand creameries will organize soon to form a cooperative agency to standardize and market butter R G Clark chief of the dairy and food division says after a meeting They plan to start at the bottom in forming their part of marketing standardize butter and attract best propositions from dealers to obtain better prices They will form a selling agency in a representative city to test public response to their high class product.
Ira Harlan reports that Wapello county hog raisers received an additional twenty thousand dollars annually for hogs sold due to the county being tuberculosis free. Packers paid this premium over the regular price for two consecutive years. Carl N Kennedy from Des Moines warned that Shelby county farmers will receive similar premiums when accredited after January first.
A new Western film star, Fred Humes, rises on the screen and makes his debut with The Yellow Pack at the Fox Theatre Friday. Humes joins Universal Pictures’ Blue-Streak Westerns with his daring riding and range tricks. Though not born in the West, he has spent most of his life on cattle ranches.
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