Ernest Knott of Clovis last week bought from Howard Major of Albuquerque and received at Magdalena, 200 steer yearlings which averaged 630 pounds at $35.25 per hundred; these were shipped to I.V. Brummett of Amarillo.

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Ed Reynolds of Yeso, New Mexico, last week sold 1600 wether lambs to John Shirley of Roswell at 30 cents a pound. The lambs delivered this week at the ranch with overnight shrink.

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Nelson (Dude) Ainsworth of Milesand, New Mexico, last week bought from bob McKenzie of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, 200 mixed calves which averaged 285 pounds at 41 cents a pound. Ainsworth also bought 300 mixed calves which weighed 366 pounds from Jim Black of Lovinton, New Mexico, at 40½ cents straight across.

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Roy Harkey of San Angelo sold for Cecil Meador of Eldorado 50 three year-old steers, which averaged 1119 pounds pay weight, to Tommy Winters of Evant at 31 cents a pound. The steers will go into a Kansas feedlot.

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Charlie Waller of Roswell has bought around 400 mixed lambs, Corriedales, from Austin Reeves, also of Roswell, at 28 cents a pound; they averaged 66 pounds.

45 YEARS AGO

Tony Dowlin and Leonard Zielke of Amarillo sold 200 steer yearlings estimated to weigh about 675 pounds at $17.50 for Nov. 10 delivery at Dalhart to Kern-German Cattle Co., Denver, Colo.

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Lewis Cooper of Kenna, N.M., has bought around 1300 light calves in the Carlsbad area during the past couple of weeks at mostly $16 for heifers and $18 for steers. Deliveries extend up to Nov. 15. He will winter the steer end in New Mexico.

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Dickinson Bros., Tatum, N.M., sold 150 dry cows at $80 per head to S.K. Richardson of North Platte, Neb.; and 36 cows with 300-pound calves on them at $115 per pair to Ben Keele of Tatum, delivered last week.

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E.J. Killough of Clovis sold 200 steers weighing 700-750 pounds at $17 and delivered them Oct. 26 to Gill Bros., Exeter, Calif.

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Olin Ainsworth of Elida, N.M., and Cleo Ainsworth of Milnesand, sold 400 steer yearlings averaging 710 pounds at $17 to Lewis Cooper of Kenna, N.M.

40 YEARS AGO

John Post last week sold and delivered, off his ranches near Andrews, Texas, and Jal, N.M., 450 good quality Hereford steers at $23; about a fourth of these, averaging 670 pounds, went to Price Turner & Sons at Best, Texas; the remainder, weighing near 800, went to Singer & Brummett, Amarillo.

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Allen Knorp of Groom sold 200 steer yearlings weighing 790 pounds and delivered them recently to Omaha buyers at $23.

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Alton Ainsworth of Bledsoe, Texas, sold about 100 steer calves weighing 430 at $30 and delivered them last week to a repeat buyer, Albert Wamser of Reading, Kan.

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"Red" Adkins of Guymon, Okla., is reported to have bought the Jollock Ranch in Cimarron County, Okla., comprising 26,000 acres of deeded land and including 1600 mother cows with two-thirds of the calf crop, for a total of $990,000 for land and cattle. This land is located about 16 miles east of Guymon in the vicinity of Hardesty, Okla.; the North Canadian, sometimes called Beaver River, runs through the ranch.

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Fred Darden of Visalia, Calif., sold 375 steer yearlings located near Clovis, N.M., and delivered them last week to an Illinois feeder at $23.25; they averaged 731 pounds.

35 YEARS AGO

Forte Dupee, Sawyer of Boston bought the entire accumulation of about 600,000 pounds of fall mohair at Producers Wool & Mohair Co. in Del Rio this week. Jack Taylor of Kerrville, buyer for the firm, said the purchase was mainly adult hair at 45 cents per pound but included about 75,000 pounds of fall kid hair at 85 cents, gross to the warehouse.

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Ike Wiggins of Wagon Mound, N.M., sold 94 choice Hereford steer yearlings averaging 574 at $26 and 86 similar quality heifer calves averaging 370 at $27.75, all delivered to a Missouri buyer.

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Cluck Cattle Co. of Dimmitt sold 525 steers grading 80 percent choice and weighing about 1050 pounds at $23.60 and delivered them to Armour & Co. of Lubbock.

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J.P. Matheson of Claude sold 120 Hereford steer yearlings weighing 680 pounds at $24 and delivered them to Bud Bagwell of Claude.

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Total meat production under federal inspection for last week was estimated at 549 million pounds, an increase of one percent above the previous week, but three percent below the same week last year.

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Seven Rivers Cattle Co., Carlsbad, N.M., sold 437 fed heifers described as 75 percent choice and weighing 856 pounds at $23.50 delivered to Peyton Packing Co., El Paso.

30 YEARS AGO

Dennis Kotara, Panhandle, bought from Jimmy Collins, Endee, N.M., 260 Hereford mixed calves weighing around 400 pounds straight across at $36 and $40.

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Walter King, Blackwell, sold 900 mixed blackface lambs weighing 81 pounds at $25.25 to Midwest Feed Yards, San Angelo.

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James Gibson, Elida, N.M., sold to Jeff King, Wichita, Kan., 51 Hereford steer yearlings weighing 650 pounds at $34 delivered.

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Frank Hinkson, Lazbuddie: 90 heifers weighing 1014 lbs., mostly choice, $30.15.

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Arizona-Colorado Cattle Co. sold 330 steers described as No. 2 Mexicans weighing 653 pounds at $32 delivered off the company’s Pueblo ranch to a Phoenix buyer.

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Blair Cattle Co., Blair, Neb.: 85 steers weighing 1225 lbs., 85% choice, $32.50.

25 YEARS AGO

San Angelo Feedyard sold 2000 fed lambs in No. 1 pelt weighing 109 pounds at $46.50 f.o.b. the feedlot.

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Jersig Cattle Co., Clovis, N.M., sold to Ralph Stanfield, Grady, 300 Hereford yearling steers weighing around 500 pounds at $38.

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Johnson and Hitson, Santa Rosa, N.M., sold 460 yearling ewes, weighing 120 pounds, at $65 to a head to a Roswell buyer.

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Henry Barton, Bagwell, bought in the Clarksville, Texas, area 75 No. 1 black baldface heifers weighing 600 pounds at $30.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 570 steers, 1125 lbs., mostly choice, $40.50.

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Clayco Cattle, Petrolia: 142 heifers, 900 lbs., 70% choice, $38.

20 YEARS AGO

Tommy Price, Tatum, N.M., sold to a San Angelo buyer 2000 No. 1-2 steers weighing 725 pounds at $63.

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Bar T Bar Ranch Co., Flagstaff, Ariz., sold to an Arizona buyer 507 Hereford steer yearlings weighing 817 pounds at $63.50, also 45 similar heifers weighing 475 at $57.50.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 500 No. 1 steers weighing 725 pounds at $63.

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F-S-W Cattle Co., Rosharon, Texas, bought in the Gulf Coast area one load of No. 1 Okie and crossbred steer and bull calves weighing 490 pounds and delivered them to Texas Panhandle buyers at $66.46.

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Hughes Land & Livestock, Scott City, Kan.: 233 steers, 1100-1125 lbs., 85-90% choice, $61.

15 YEARS AGO

Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in West Texas 630 choice steer calves weighing 575-600 pounds at $64.50; in Central Texas 240 No. 1½ crossbred steers weighing 600 at $61, also 75 similar steers weighing 700 at $58.50 and 80 No. 1 heifers weighing 675-700 at $57.

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Bob Campbell, Durant and Kemp, Okla., sold out of Walter Lasley & Sons feedlot, Stratford: 80 steers, 1200 lbs., 80% choice, $63.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 50 steers, 1150 lbs., $62,50; 264 steers, 1200 lbs., $62.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 1475 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $62.

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3K Cattle Feeders, Hereford: 200 crossbred steers, 1075 lbs., 60% choice, $62.

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New Mexico has only a scattering few bunches of lambs still uncommitted. A large string of reputation lambs was sold west of Roswell at $75.

10 YEARS AGO

In Billings feeder lambs at auction were $47-48 on 70-90 pounds and $45-46 on 90-100 pounds.

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JB Cattle Co., Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to a Texas Panhandle buyer one load of fancy exotic steers and bulls weighing 359 pounds at $115.94, also one load of No. 1½ Okie cutting bulls weighing 630 at $80.93.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 381 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 55% choice, $70.

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Lykes Brothers Feed Yard, Edroy: 125 steers, 1000 lbs., $69.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 1215 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $70; 395 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $70.

5 YEARS AGO

Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 3.39 billion pounds during September, down eight percent from the previous year. Beef production was down 13 percent at 1.94 billion pounds. Slaughter was down 11 percent at 2.76 million head, the average liveweight down 13 pounds from the previous year at 1179 pounds.

Veal production was up 21 percent at 31 million pounds. Calf slaughter was down 22 percent at 149,700 head.

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Feeder lambs in San Angelo weighing 40-60 pounds brought $91-94, 60-80 pounds $85-92.50, 80-90 pounds $80.50-85 and 90-95 pounds $75-85.

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Miller Feedyard, Satanta, Kan.: 289 heifers, 1050 lbs., 50% choice, $70; 138 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice. $70.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 808 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $71.