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Show Sales Of Butter Grows Inaho Je rome, Idaho. Sales for the past year amounting to three-quarters of ; a million dollars are reported in Agri-! Agri-! cultural Cooperation, a publication of ' the bureau of agricultureal economics of the department of agriculture, by I the Jerome, Idaho, cooperative creamery. cream-ery. The growth of the company, ! which was formed about ten years ago by the small group of dairymen who ' conceived the idea of handling their own business, is shown by the follow-. follow-. ing figures: 1920, sales ?100,000; 1921, . sales $172,000, 177,271 pounds of butter but-ter made; 1922, sales $125,000, 327. f.05 pounds of butler made; 1923, sales $216,9152, 4SS.20G pounds of butter , made, 1924, sales $324,302, S3fl.G0l pounds of butter made; 1925, sales $709,119. 1,562,436 pounds of butter made. All cream not sold locally by the cooperative is marketed in Lop Angeles. |