Charlie Waller of Roswell, New Mexico, has about 10,000 yearling muttons under contract for spring delivery out of the wool. Most were bought in the San Saba area at 26 to 27 cents a pound.

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Owen Brothers of San Saba sold two loads of Brahman heifers weighing around 500 pounds to Texas Livestock Marketing Association of Fort Worth at 33 cents for shipment to Arizona; they were loaded Wednesday at San Saba.

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Bob Salter, representing Walter Marston, contracted the Jess Corn wool clip, 1800 fleeces, through Bond-Baker Company in Roswell Tuesday at $1.10.

On February 14, the Paradise Sheep Company sold 11,000 fleeces in a sealed bid offering in Phoenix to the National Wool Marketing Corporation of Boston at $1.27.

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Forty-one percent cottonseed meal Wednesday was quoted $90 per ton, pellets $92, carlot basis, f.o.b. San Angelo. Hulls were quoted at $26.

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A shipment of sheep that came into Texas from Louisiana last October has infected a Brewster County flock with scabies, Pierce Hoggett of Kerrville, state supervisor of sheep scab eradication, reported this week.

A total of 2000 sheep are involved on a ranch 80 miles south of Alpine. The owner bought 183 head of sheep out of the Louisiana shipment and turned them out with his other sheep, with the result that all of them are infected or exposed.

The scabies outbreak reported last week near Junction resulted from the same Louisiana shipment that produced the outbreak in Brewster County. Sanitary inspectors went to Brewster County to look for scab after learning that the ranchman there had bought some of the Louisiana sheep that infected the Junction flock.

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Goats at San Antonio Monday were quoted unevenly strong to $1 higher. Small lots of Angoras in the hair reached $20 per hundred, with Spanish types equally high to the butchers. Kids sold about steady at $5 to $7 per head, with baby kids weighing 10 pound at $3 each.

45 YEARS AGO

Abe Mayer, Roswell, N.M., is reported to have bought 1500 fleshy feeder lambs, mixed No. 1 and 2 skins, from Jud McKnight, Roswell, at $16.50 cwt. He also bought two loads of fat lambs at Roswell at $17 cwt.

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Stanley Nielson, Roswell, N.M., this week bought 4000 mixed fat and feeder lambs, mostly fats, with No. 1 skins at $17 straight across from Patterson Bros., Roswell, for immediate delivery.

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Roy Martin, San Angelo, last week bought 1000 aged mutton goats from Jack Boyd, Aspermont, at $4.75 cwt.; these weighed 85 pounds on delivery this week.

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Travis Killough, Fort Sumner, N.M., last Friday sold 200 mixed yearlings for George Vaughn, Fort Sumner, and 125 mixed yearlings for Cortese Bros., also of Fort Sumner, to Kansas buyers for April 1-15 delivery at $16.50 for the heifers and $19.50 for the steers; these are cake-and-grass cattle, expected to weigh around 450 pounds on delivery.

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O.W."Red" Wharton of Tucumcari sold, for John McCoy, also of Tucumcari, 100 cows four to five years old, 30 with calves and the rest springing, at $125 per head to Jack Hitson, Fort Sumner, N.M., delivered Feb. 20; and 100 cows, straight 4 year-olds with a few calves on them now, at $130 to a Roswell buyer, delivered Feb. 18.

40 YEARS AGO

Elmer Melton of Pampa sold 230 mixed yearlings expected to average near 500 pounds at $24.50 and $26.50 for March 1 delivery off wheat to Robert A. Price of Pampa.

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Bill Grimes, San Saba, last week bought 250 Hereford steer calves weighing around 400 pounds from Bill Martin of Concho Livestock Co., San Angelo, at $29 cwt. for April 1 delivery.

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Lee Perkins, Talpa, Texas, sold 350 medium quality Alabama steers weighing 450 pounds to a Waco buyer at $24.50 delivered to Waco.

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Richard Buckles of Stratford, Texas, sold 280 good to choice Angus heifer yearling expected to weigh 700 pounds at $24.50 for April delivery, and 230 similar quality Angus steer yearlings expected to weigh near 750 for the same delivery date at $26.50, all to Amarillo buyers.

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Bill SoRelle of Amarillo sold 374 cows averaging 1044 pounds at $14 cwt. and delivered them recently off wheat pasture to Foster Pickett, Amarillo.

35 YEARS AGO

More than 350,000 pounds of wool clippings have been sold by West Texas warehouses at 26.5 cents a pound. Similar clippings brought 25 cents a year ago.

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Bill O’Brien of Amarillo bought 240 steer yearlings weighing about 625 pounds at $27.25 from Jim Mann of Amarillo.

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Pete Lieb of Morse, Texas, sold 186 mixed breed steers weighing 650 pounds at $26, delivered to an Amarillo buyer.

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Guy Flint of Amarillo bought 5500 heifers weighing 676-700 pounds at $23 in the Las Vegas, N.M. area.

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In the Casper, Wyo. area some small bunches of range wether lambs were contracted for fall delivery at $26 this week and ewe lambs from the same flocks at $27.50.

30 YEARS AGO

Plains stockmen are trying to dig out from under a winter snowstorm that in southwest Kansas, at least, was described as the worst since 1886. The extent of livestock loss remained uncertain at midweek because cattle owners in some of the hardest hit regions were still unable to get around and feed their cattle, much less to count them.

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San Angelo Feed Yard sold 1000 lambs in No. 1 pelts weighing 102 pounds at $27 f.o.b. the yards to a San Angelo packer.

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Frank Allen, Clayton, N.M., bought in the Springfield, Mo. area 104 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 398 pounds at $37.43.

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Charlie Waller, Roswell, N.M., sold a truckload of lambs in No. 2 pelts weighing 100 pounds at $26 delivered to Armour & Co., San Angelo.

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Vern Teague, Seymour, sold 350 Hereford, Angus and black baldface at $32 to a Texas buyer.

25 YEARS AGO

Coyotes killed 735,000 lambs last year by USDA estimate. That was about eight percent of the total number born in 15 Western states. In addition, coyotes were said to have killed 230,000 mature breeding sheep in Western flocks, 2.5 percent of the total.

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Pee Wee Nix, representing Nix Cattle Co., Athens, Texas, sold one load of No. 1-2 crossbred heifers weighing 365 pounds at $30.50 delivered to a West Texas feedyard.

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Doc Hagan, Yoakum, sold 56 good quality crossbred cows, 4-7 year-olds, with 47 calves at $300 straight across to a local buyer.

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H&H Feedlot, Roscoe: 300 heifers, 725-750 lbs., good, $36; 195 heifers, 600-625 lbs., good, $35.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 173 heifers, 925 lbs., 70% choice, $38.

20 YEARS AGO

Miller Feed Yard, Satanta, Kan.: 129 steers, 1150 lbs., 70% choice, $64.

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Bill Bookout, Newkirk, N.M., bought in the El Paso area 1400 Mexican steer calves weighing 300 pounds at $96.

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Buck and Jim Sumners, representing B&J Cattle Co., Dalhart, bought in the Texas Panhandle 194 No. 1 steers weighing 678 pounds at $73.75.

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Klemme Cattle Co., Springfield, Mo., sold on a delivered basis to a Nebraska buyer 137 steer and bull calves weighing 349 pounds at $78.59; to a Colorado buyer 391 steer and bull calves weighing 377 at $76.42.

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XIT Feedyards, Dalhart: 663 steers, 1050-1100 lbs., 70% choice, $65.

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Swisher County Cattle Co., Tulia: 727 steers, 1075-1100 lbs., 65% choice, $64.50; 633 heifers, 940-975 lbs., 65% choice, $62.50.

15 YEARS AGO

Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was an estimated 704.2 million pounds, 1.3 percent below the previous week and 1.4 percent above the same week a year ago.

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Cattle on feed Feb. 1 in the seven largest feeding states totaled 7.62 million head, down seven percent from a year ago and four percent from two years ago.

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Klemme Cattle Co., Springfield, Mo., sold to a Kansas buyer 93 No. 1 steers weighing 555 pounds at $65.20 delivered.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 81 steers, 1100 lbs., $57; 134 steers, 1040 lbs., $86.50 in the beef.

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Ralston Feedlots, Verhalen: 141 steers, 1090 lbs., 70% choice, $57.25.

10 YEARS AGO

Slaughter lambs continue to move off Southern California alfalfa fields at $42-44, mostly $43, some with a 125 pound pay stop.

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JB Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Oklahoma buyers two loads of No. 1 Okie steers and bulls weighing 371 pounds at $122.30 and one load of No. 1 crossbred heifers weighing 447 at $99.71 f.o.b.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 645 steers, 1150 lbs., 65% choice, $79.50; 546 heifers, 1050 lbs., 65% choice, $79.50.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 992 steers, 1100 lbs., 75-80% choice, $79.50.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 244 steers, 1070 lbs., 60% choice, $79.50; 313 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $79.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Sheep and lamb slaughter is running around the 80,000 per week figure, leaving year to date slaughter fully nine percent below last year’s record low level.

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Sugarland Feedyard Inc., Hereford: 78 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $62.50; 73 mixed steers and heifers, $62.50.

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Total livestock exports through the six Texas ports are up 15 percent from a year ago at 61,775 head. Most of the exports moved to Mexico. This year’s figures are still only 50 percent of those for 1994.

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Newcrop feeder lambs moving direct in West Texas were $94-100. In Utah 90-95 pound feeders were contracted for September and October delivery at $81.