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Prices in Pioneer Days

Heritage of the High Country
A History of Del Bonita and Surrounding Districts,
Pages 70 - 72

Market Prices - Lethbridge Herald May 10, 1912

Products Prices
Butter & Eggs
Dairy Butter
$0.10
Creamery Butter $0.40-$0.50
Eggs Fresh $0.30
Vegetables
Potatoes, per cwt
$1.35 to $2.00
Potatoes, per ton $27.00 to $38.00
Beets, per lb $0.02 1/2
Carrots, per lb $0.02 1/2
Turnips, per lb $0.01 1/4
Cabbage, per lb $0.06
Celery, per lb $0.13
Parsnips, per lb $0.03 1/2
Onions, per lb $0.05 1/2
Cattle on the Hoof
Steers, per lb
$0.06
Cows, per lb $0.04 1/2
Dressed, per pound $0.11
Sheep
Live, per cwt
$5.00
Dressed, per cwt $11.00
Hogs
Dressed, per lb
$0.12
Live, per cwt $0.03
Poultry
Geese, live
$0.14
Turkeys $0.22
Chickens $0.15
Fowl $0.12
Ducks $0.15
Hay
Cultivated Hay in bulk
$16.00
Hides
Green, per lb
$0.08-$0.09 1/2
Cured $0.09-0.09 1/2
Dry $0.10-$0.15
Sheep pelt, each $0.25-$0.75
Lamb skins $0.25-$0.40
Shearlings $0.50-$0.60
Horse hides, green $1.00-$2.00
Horse hides, dry $1.00-$1.75
Grain
No. 1 Northern
$0.85
No. 2. Northern $0.83
No. 3 Northern $0.78
No. 4 $0.70
No. 5 $0.59
No. 6 $0.47
No. I Alberta Red $0.78
No. 2 Alberta Red $0.77
No. 3 Alberta Red $0.76
No. 4 Alberta Red $0.71
No. 5 Alberta Red $0.60
No. 6 Alberta Red $0.47
Barley No. 3 $0.51
Barley No. 4 $0.46
Bran, per ton $21.00
Shorts, per ton $23.00
Oats, per ton, sacked $28.00
Rolled Oats $29.00

Livestock Bringing High Prices in Alta.
Farm and Ranch Review - March 8, 1912

From the accounts of quite a few displenishing sales in
the province lately, we notice the remarkably good prices
farmers are getting for all classes of livestock. At a sale
held in Cardston Country recently, stock of all kinds
went for a higher figure than might have been expected.
A bunch of 19 brood sows brought from $20.00 up, one
reaching $37. 00. Twenty-one half grown hogs brought
$217. 00 for the lot. Of the cattle, one milch cow sold
for over $70.00, the rest ranging well up to their value.
Some good teams of horses were offered and the
bidding on these was keen. Prices ranged well up
in the hundreds, two teams bringing $560.00 and
$540.00. Chickens as usual were in great demand and
brought in most cases, $1.00 each. Three turkeys sold
for $12.00.

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