In Marie West notes she refers to "tradin". My father had a grocery store in a small town in Afton, Iowa and he would buy eggs from the farmers. If they took the egg money out in groceries he would pay them 2 cents a dozen more than the posted price at the Farmers Co-op. We didn't sack too many groceries back in those days. We would use the farmers 30 dozen or 15 dozen egg cases to put his groceries in or used the boxes that groceries came in when stocking the store. Darrell/Omaha

My great grandparents and a great uncle had a store in the Afton area, last name Kelley. This was a long time ago. Barbara Texas