Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1918 — TOPPED WEDNESDAY’S MARKET [ARTICLE]

TOPPED WEDNESDAY’S MARKET

Gillam Township Steers Sell at $17.85 Per Cwt. Thomas Logan of Gillam township and John G. Culp of Barkley town ship returned from Chicago Wednesday evening, where the former had a load of heavy steers on Wednesday’s market that brought the top price in their class for the day, $17.85 per cwt. There were twenty-two head in the lot and their average weight was 1558, making the average price $278.31 per head, bringing Mr. Logan the neat little sum of a trifle over $6,120 for the carload.; The steers had been on feed for the past seven months, having been started on the soft corn last fall.