Floyd Brown of Vega, Texas, bought 60 cows and calves from Harold Johnson, Amarillo, at $170 per pair, delivered Jan. 28. The calves weighed about 350 pounds and the cows were three to six years old.

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Bun Lewis, Cheraw, Colo., sold one load of Angus calves weighing 439 pounds at $20 for heifers and $23 for steers to Cleo Norwood of Amarillo, buying for Wertheimer Cattle Co. These were delivered Jan. 24.

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Boots Montgomery of Vega, Texas, sold one load of steer yearlings weighing 846 pounds at $20 to Oldham County Cattle Co., Vega, delivered the last of January.

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Wade Thomasson of Pampa, Texas, is reported to have sold 200 cows, a few with calves and the rest springers, to Andy Smith of Henrietta at $125 per head, delivered the last of January.

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O.G. Hill of Hereford this week sold one load of young stocker cows to a Nebraska buyer at $135 each.

40 YEARS AGO

Doyle Mount, Floydada, sold and delivered last weekend to a San Angelo dealer 3700 mixed fat and feeder lambs averaging a little over 100 pounds at $17 straight. About half the lambs were fats.

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Roy Martin, San Angelo, sold and delivered last week to Jack Richardson, Uvalde, 500 mixed-age Angora mutton goats, twos to fours, at $14 per head. These will shear six pounds twice yearly, Martin said.

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Roger Brumley of Hereford sold 133 fed heifers estimated to weigh around 850 pounds at $24 for delivery this month to Pinkney Packing Co., Amarillo.

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Carl Shores of Clovis, N.M., and O.O. Turner, Altus, Okla., bought 96 short age yearling heifers and steers weighing 541 and 549 at $23.50 and $25.50, respectively, in the Roswell area, delivered last week.

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Clyde W. Martin of Stratford, Texas, is reported to have sold 400 steer calves averaging 466 pounds at $28, delivered Jan. 23 to Iowa buyers.

35 YEARS AGO

Owen Bros. Livestock Co., San Saba, sold 17,000 lambs to Raymond McCutchen of San Angelo at $20.50.

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President Lyndon B. Johnson and the Congress of the United States are being asked to determine the true ownership of the sprawling 524,515-acre Tierra Amarillo Land Grant in north central New Mexico. For over a century these lands have threatened to become a bloody battlefield.

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Smiley Triplett, Amarillo, received and shipped six loads of fed steers weighing 1140 pounds at $22.50 out of the Hereford Feedlot.

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V. Lee Matney of Amarillo bought one load of heifer yearlings at $18.50 and a load of steers at $20.50, all weighing about 635, and received them in the Perryton area; these were described as good quality Herefords.

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Malcom Jennigan, Goldthwaite, and Benson Kretzmeir sold, off their ranch near Walnut Springs, 1000 mixed age mutton goats at $9.50 per head to Horace Winnett of Blum.

30 YEARS AGO

All the outstanding stock of Cactus Feeders Inc., has been acquired by Stratford of Texas Inc., which headquarters in Houston and owns Stratford Feedyard at Stratford as well as having purchased a 30,000-head feedlot now under construction at Dalhart.

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An excess of heavy lambs continued to put pressure on the fat lamb market this week, though total numbers offered were down. Practical market in Texas was $28-28.50, the outside top $29, a decline of at least $1 from two weeks ago.

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Limon Feedlot, Limon, Colo., bought 300 Hereford steers weighing about 775 at $30.50 off wheat in western Kansas; also 200 steers weighing 725-750 at the same price off Colorado wheat.

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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, sold 200 heifers weighing 975-1000, 90 percent choice at $27.50 to Swift & Co., Guymon, Okla.

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Nelson Grain Co., Claude, sold 142 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing 512 pounds at $30 to an Amarillo buyer.

25 YEARS AGO

Smokey Greyburt, Greybull, Wyo., sold 1900 whiteface mutton feeder lambs weighing 100 pounds at sealed bid for $38.30 to Powell, Wyo. buyers.

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Cone and Randy Johnson, Happy, sold 750 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 650-700 pounds at $28.80 to a California buyer.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver: 110 steers, 1100 lbs., 80% choice, $35.50; 200 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $35.

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Eddy Biddlecome, Nogales, Ariz., bought from Gabe Herndon, Panhandle, 250 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 854 pounds at $26.25.

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Billy Briggs, Vega, sold to a Hereford buyer 186 Angus, Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 690 pounds at $26.75.

20 YEARS AGO

Sol Bouziden and Sons, Alva, Okla., bought in the Pecos area 400 choice Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 386 and 426 pounds at $80 and $90, also 250 similar steer yearlings weighing 616 at $80.

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Ernie Bliss, Bliss Cattle Co., Newkirk, Okla., bought in the local area 90 choice steer calves weighing 475 pounds at $92, also 130 mostly choice heifers weighing 675 at $70.

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Virgil Stine, Welch, Okla., bought in Tennessee 78 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 584 pounds at $80.05 delivered.

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Bill Ragland, Brenham, bought in the local area 225 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 315 pounds at $106.55; 220 veal-type feeder heifers weighing 224 at $91.25.

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Floyd McComas and son Ken, Albany, bought south of Abilene 161 No. 1½ long-age heifer yearlings weighing 559 pounds at $66.

15 YEARS AGO

Texas red meat production during December totaled 307 million pounds, down six percent from a year earlier. It was down 15 percent from November, the Texas Crop and Livestock Reporting Board said.

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Cattle and calves on feed Jan. 1 in the 13 quarterly-reporting states totaled 10.6 million head, seven percent more than a year ago and four percent more than two years ago, the Crop Reporting Board says.

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Sheep and lambs in the U.S. Jan. 1 were estimated at 10.4 million head by the Crop Reporting Board. That is down nine percent from 11.5 million head a year earlier and is a record low inventory.

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Bob Campbell, Durant and Kemp, Okla., bought in the local area 79 No. 1 crossbred and Charolais cross steers weighing 418 pounds at $74.19, also 61 Okie and crossbred steers and bulls weighing 479 at $73.01 and 168 Okie and crossbred feeder heifers weighing 516 at $60.12.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico 1300 No. 1 heifers weighing 600-625 pounds at $63.

10 YEARS AGO

Bill Schneemann, Big Lake, Texas, was named to a second term as president of the American Sheep Industry Assn. at the organization's convention in Phoenix.

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Because of increased buying for Mexico orders, club lambs jumped $3-5 in San Angelo from last week's mid-$40s average. Those up to 125 pounds brought $50-54, heavier kinds $45-50.

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3K Cattle Feeders, Hereford: 140 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $79.50; 160 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $79.50.

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JM Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Oklahoma buyers one load of No. 1 Okie steers and bulls weighing 450 pounds at $103.30 and one load of No. 1 Okie steers and bulls weighing 498 at $99.07; to a New Mexico buyer one load of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 359 at $97.20; to a Texas buyer one load of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 416 at $94.41; to Colorado buyers two loads of No. 1 Okie steers and bulls weighing 480 at $94.80, also three loads of Okie steers and bulls weighing 558 at $92.10 and one load of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 562 at $85.88.

5 YEARS AGO

Vann-Roach Cattle co., Fort Worth, bought in the Texas Panhandle three loads of No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 750 at $75.50; in Colorado 800 No. 1 Okie and exotic heifers weighing 700-725 at $74.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 559 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $74.

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DGC Feeders, Gruver: 484 steers, 1150 lbs., 50% choice, $74; 231 heifers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $74.

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Tejas Feeders, Pampa: 609 steers, 1150-1200 lbs., 60% choice, $74; 42 corriente steers, $70.

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Hereford Feedyard Inc., Hereford: 1241 steers, 1175-1200 lbs., 50-60% choice, $74.