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Newspaper
Washington Evening Journal
Location
Washington, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1949
Page
7
The US Soil Conservation Service reports average annual damage from all forms of sediment and sedimentation totals about 175 million dollars, highlighting ongoing erosion and sediment control challenges across regions.
The next special horse sale will be held on February 17 at the same venue. The event returns to the usual location, continuing a local auction tradition.
Thirty head of feeding shoats about 175 pounds each sold for 20 cents. A Guernsey cow brought $200 and a ten year old horse $40. Twenty five hundred bushels of corn sold at $1.08 per bushel, 450 bales alfalfa at $1.25, a rubber tired tractor $400, an electric milker $175, an eight foot tandem disc $75, a manure spreader $70. Auctioneers were Klotz and Duncan.
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