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Show Sales Of Butter Grows In Idaho Je rome, Idaho. Sales for the past year amounting to three-quarters of a million dollars are reported in Agricultural Agri-cultural Cooperation, a publication of the bureau of agricultures! economics of the department of agriculture, by 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 following follow-ing figures: 1920, sales $100,000; 1921. sales $172,000, 177,271 pounds of butter but-ter made; 1922, sales $125,000, 327, C05 pounds of butter made; 1923, sales $216,962, 4SS.206 pounds of butter made, 1924, sales $324,302, 839,601 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 Loe Angeles. |