Ed Willoughby of San Angelo sold two loads of stocker yearling muttons at 19 cents a pound and one load of yearling ewes at $20 per head.

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Bill Seahorn of Ozona has contracted his Hereford steer calves to Roscoe Graham of San Angelo at 25 cents a pound for fall delivery.

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Arch Benge of San Angelo sold 1390 clipped yearling muttons weighing 74 pounds to Wilkins Brothers, R. and R., a Kansas City firm, at 19½ cents through Naylor commission company of San Angelo. They had been pastured on the Boz Hartgrove ranch north of Big Lake and were whipped from there Tuesday.

Ernest Knot of Clovis, New Mexico, bought two loads of cows and calves from William Ellis Hodge of Corona at $200 per pair; these cows were tree to six years old.

Knot also bought a load of 825 pound steers from Tom Pounds of Corona at 23½ cents to be delivered next Monday.

45 YEARS AGO

Jess Haney of Hominy, Okla., shipped 200 good quality steer yearlings weighing 475 pounds to northern Iowa at $20 and two loads of plain two year-olds averaging abut 600 pounds to California feeders at $18.

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Walter Pfluger of Eden this week sold and delivered 65 mixed calves from his Sonora ranch to Tom Poteet of San Angelo at $18 on heifers and $21 on steers; the heifers averaged around 355 and the steers around 385 pounds.

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Slim Miller of Hereford, Texas, last week bought 41 cows, 29 with calves and the rest springers, from George Suggs of Dawn, Texas, at $140 per cow. These were described as good quality six year-old cows.

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Art Wagoner of Amarillo sold 60 heifer yearlings at $18 for immediate delivery to a local buyer.

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A consignment of choice Hereford stocker calves from the White ranch near Brady sold on the Fort Worth market this week at $24 for the steers, weighing 311 pounds, and $21 for their heifer mates. These sold through Texas Livestock Marketing Association.

40 YEARS AGO

Leroy Russell of San Angelo, this week bought a load of 80 pound blackface lambs at $22 from Bob Mayer, San Angelo. The lambs had previously been topped.

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George Pridemore, Clovis, N.M., has sold 1000 steer calves for immediate delivery to Harden & Henry of Goodland, Kan. at $28 cwt. The steers are expected to weigh around 500 pounds. They are described as a choice set of calves, all one mark and brand.

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Gene Pray of Amarillo this week bought and received 80 feeder heifers weighing 700 pounds from an Amarillo dealer at $24.50. The cattle were delivered off wheat pasture.

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Nig Reid of Tulia, Texas, sold 100 steers out of the Keeton Cattle Co. feedlots, Lubbock, at $25.25 to Supreme Beef Co., Lubbock; these weighed about 1125 after 140 days on feed and were delivered last week.

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Carl Shores of Clovis and O.O. Turner of Altus bought, in the Portales, N.M. area, 100 cows, 97 with calves and the rest heavy springers, at $200, delivered May 25.

35 YEARS AGO

Packers' needs for more butcher cows pushed prices to a top of $18.60 and the top on bulls to $20 with numerous sales of $19.50-19.80 last week at Ranchers & Farmers Livestock Auction at Clovis, N.M.

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The Diedrichsen feedlots in Dumas, Texas, sold 240 heifers described as bulk choice, end of good, weighing 780 pounds at $24.75 to a Texas packer.

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Friona Feedlots, Friona, Texas, sold 113 heifers described as standard grade, weighing 840 pounds, at $22.25 to a local packer.

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W&W Cattle Co., Dalhart, sold 275 good and choice fed steers weighing 1100 pounds at $26 to an Amarillo packer.

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The CCS Cattle Co., Dalhart, sold 600 heifer and steer yearlings described as good Herefords weighing about 700 pounds at $21.50 and $23.50 to a local order buyer.

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The Hereford Feedlots sold 70 mostly choice steers weighing 1218 pounds at $27.25 to Supreme Beef Co., Lubbock.

30 YEARS AGO

Mesquite control studies on the Matador Ranch in Motley County, Texas showed that pastures where mesquite had been sprayed produced an extra 46 cents worth of beef per acre the first year after spraying, figuring the extra weight of weaned calves at 30 cents a pound.

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Total red meat production under federal inspection for the week ended May 30 was estimated at 579 million pounds, six percent below a week ago and 18 percent above a year ago.

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Tom Henry, Happy, sold 410 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 710 pounds at $31.50, delivered to be fed at the Swisher County Cattle Co., Tulia.

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Billy Scivally & Sons, Amarillo, sold to a local buyer 403 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 700 pounds at $30.75 delivered.

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Clayton Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M.: 208 heifers weighing 650 lbs., 80% choice, $29; 128 steers weighing 1350 lbs., 80% choice, $29.65.

25 YEARS AGO

Richard Adams, Amarillo, sold to an Oklahoma buyer 1500 Hereford and black baldface heifers and steers weighing about 450 pounds at $134 per head.

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Joe Miller, Elida, N.M., sold to a Clovis buyer 70 Okie heifers weighing 500 and 555 pounds at $28 and $32 delivered.

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Jerry Stubblefield, Perryton, representing Perry Cattle Co., Enid, Okla., bought in the Perryton area 50 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 600 pounds at $35.

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Tom Reed, Amarillo, bought 120 Hereford, Angus and black baldy Mississippi heifers weighing about 400 pounds at $22.

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Woods & Defke, Eaton, Colo., sold the last of their oldcrop fed lambs, 770 head weighing 106 pounds, at $48.50 delivered to Swift & Co., Scottsbluff, Neb.

20 YEARS AGO

A cloudburst dumped an estimated 10 inches of rain on the Cactus Feeders Inc., in about eight hours Tuesday afternoon and evening, causing serious death loss among cattle, not to mention damage to the feedlot itself and delays in feeding schedules.

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James Butler, Seymour, sold to a local buyer 240 Okie heifers weighing 639 pounds at $58.

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Harding Burris, Elida, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 550 No. 1 steers weighing 700 pounds at $65.

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Idaho's Minidoka lamb pool sold one load of choice and few prime 101 pound spring slaughter lambs at $65.38.

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Bill Porter, representing Clarendon Cattle Co., Clarendon, sold to a local buyer 936 No. 1 steers and bulls weighing 468 pounds at $79.80.

15 YEARS AGO

A Florida firm sold off the company's four ranches 4000 No. 1-1½ crossbred and Beefmaster steer calves to Texas and Oklahoma buyers as follows: steers weighing 350 pounds at $76.50; 375 pounds $75; 565 pounds $65; 475 pounds $67.40; 520 pounds $65.70; and 450 pounds $67.80.

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Si Watkins, Fort Worth, sold out of Eastern New Mexico to a Medicine Lodge, Kan. buyer 800 Charolais cross cow-calf pairs, the cows weighing 875 pounds and the calves about 300, at $585 per pair.

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National Farms Feedlot, Parsons, Kan.: 211 heifers, 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $95 in the beef; 292 heiferettes, 1125 lbs., 50% choice, $91.

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The Blackwell, Okla. lamb teleauction sold a load of lambs $1 higher than last week, springers $78, oldcrops $75.

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Roy Cooper, Durant, Okla., took both the calf roping average and his match against 1984 World all-around champion Dee Pickett, Caldwell, Idaho, over the weekend at Saginaw, Texas at the 12th annual Windy Ryon Memorial Roping.

10 YEARS AGO

Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 90 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 60-65% choice, $77.50; 142 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 60% choice, $77; 222 heifers, 1000-1050 lbs., 60-65% choice, $77.

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JM Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Oklahoma buyers one load of No. 1 Okie and crossbred heifers weighing 285 pounds at $110.98, also a load of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 365 at $105.76 and a load of No. 1½ Okie and crossbred steers and bulls weighing 508 at $92.48.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 831 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $77.50.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 224 steers, 1125 lbs., 55% choice, $77.50; 310 heifers, 975 lbs., 55% choice, $77.

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Lochte Storage and Commission Co., Fredericksburg, sold about 177,000 pounds, all 12 months except 30,000 pounds of lamb. Prices ranged from 76 cents to $1.68 per grease pound, bulk around $1.62.

5 YEARS AGO

Direct cattle sales in the Pacific Northwest as confirmed by USDA totaled 1550 head, including medium and large No. 1 steers weighing 800-850 pounds at $65 delivered in Idaho and similar heifers weighing 800-825 pounds at $59-60 in Washington and Idaho.

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Fleshy fat slaughter ewes in San Angelo sold in a broad range of $22-34, lean fleshy kinds $29-39.50. In Midwest markets slaughter ewes were mostly $20-30.

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Randall County Feedyard, Canyon: 300 steers, 1125 lbs., 50% choice, $63.

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McCloy Feedlot, Morse: 232 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $63.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 1349 steers, 1150 lbs., 50% choice, $63; 159 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $63.