Avery Adams and Bruce Wheeler of Tulia, Texas, sold 375 heifer yearlings at 27 cents a pound to Cotton McDade of Clayton, New Mexico, for August 1 delivery at Mt. Dora, New Mexico.

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Bill Foley, representing Wertheimer Colorado Cattle Company of Amarillo, bought 100 steers averaging 748 pounds at 28 cents and received them July 21 from B.F. Greesen of Summerfield, Texas. Wertheimer sold 50 heifers averaging 493 pounds at 28 cents and shipped them July 25 to Crane and Stephenson, Lexington, Kentucky.

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George Pulley of Amarillo bought 100 choice mixed calves for October 15 delivery from Frank Daugherty of Olton, Texas, at 32 cents a pound straight across. These will be loaded at Plainview.

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Leroy Russell, San Angelo commission agent, this week sold 250 mixed calves in the Rankin area for delivery next week at 31 and 32 cents; these are expected to weigh slightly under 400 pounds. He sold the light end of the Noelke Estate mixed lambs at Rankin, numbering around 1200 Rambouillet-Corriedale crossbreds, to San Angelo buyers at 19 cents, and sold 200 steer calves in Oklahoma for September delivery at 32 cents.

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Wampus Espy of Sonora this week sold 300 crossbred blackface fat lambs to Vestel Askew, buying for Armour and Company, at 23 and 24 cents a pound. These lambs have been creep fed and weighed 79 pounds on delivery Tuesday.

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Duke Wilson of Sonora this week sold to Horace Linthicum of Eldorado, 2000 whiteface mixed lambs for September 15 delivery at 20 cents a pound through Johnny Hamby of Sonora.

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A good volume of original bag kid mohair was sold in the local market at between $1.65 and $1.70. Sorted 36s kid mohair sold in good weight at around $1.85 to $1.90. Inquiry was mostly for the finer kid qualities.

Graded fine staple Delaine wool sold at 65 cents and 66 cents in the grease and was estimated to cost from $1.61 to $1.63 per clean pound.

45 YEARS AGO

Mid-West Feed Yards, San Angelo, bought 1200 whiteface lambs for Sept. 1 delivery at $19 from Clyde Sears Jr., Abilene; these include some ewe lambs, though the grower tops some out for replacements.

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Raymond Weatherford of Dumas, Texas, is reported to have sold about 400 steers yearlings at $19.80 for fall delivery to Colorado feeders; these are expected to average around 750 pounds at delivery.

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Harold Newman of Fort Worth last week contracted about 1200 lambs, mostly muttons and most of them crossbreds, from Meriwether Bros., Alpine, at $19.50.

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Kent Chesney of Natoma, Kan., sold 112 steers weighing 850 to 1050 pounds to John Chisler, Natoma, and delivered them this week at $21.50. They were shipped to Nebraska feedlots.

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S.E. Adams of San Angelo sold off his Coke County ranch, 500 whiteface feeder lambs weighing 76 pounds at $18 to Illinois buyers and delivered them last weekend; also 229 fat lambs weighing 89 pounds at $20.50 to Armour & Co., Fort Worth.

40 YEARS AGO

Maurice Fausset & Son, San Angelo, bought 650 whiteface yearling ewes at $12 per head from Sam Chumley, Big Lake, and shipped them to Gillette, Wyo.

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Ralph Britten of Groom sold about 1000 heifer yearlings described as "good southerns" expected to weigh about 650 pounds at $22.50 for September and October delivery to a Kansas buyer.

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Sneed Estate of Amarillo is reported to have sold 650 steer calves expected to weigh 375-400 pounds at $30 for Oct. 15-Nov. 15 delivery to Buck Cone, Amarillo.

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Ray Barr of Amarillo bought 243 choice Angus steer yearlings weighing 813 pounds at $25 and received them last week from George Meacham Jr. of Clinton, Okla.

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Tom Green of Vega, Texas, sold 425 mixed calves expected to weigh around 425 pounds at $26 and $28 and 150 expected to weigh near 500 at $25 and $27, all for Oct. 15—Nov. 10 delivery to J.O. Wells of Canadian.

35 YEARS AGO

Jack Funderburg of Amarillo bought 125 heifers weighing 850 pounds, grading 70 percent choice, at $25.50 out of Tulia Feedlot.

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K.H. (Skinny) Adams of Amarillo sold 319 short yearling Hereford steers weighing about 525-550 pounds at $28 to an Amarillo buyer. The steers are being summered near Raton, N.M., on the TO Ranch.

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Jerrel Gann of Guymon, Okla., bought 380 steers weighing 1150 pounds and grading 75 percent choice at $26.25 for Hyplains Cattle Co. of Dodge City, Kan. out of a Stratford, Texas feedlot.

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Spurlock Cattle Co., Panhandle, sold 300 steers weighing 1050 and grading about 60 percent choice at $43.50 on a grade and yield basis to an out-of-state packer.

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Anderson-Hamman Feeding Co. Portales, N.M., sold 80 good and choice 876 pound heifers at $25.25 to a Texas packer.

30 YEARS AGO

Allen Swenson, Clovis: 100 steers weighing 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $37, out of Champion Feed yards, Hereford.

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The federal Food and Drug Administration ordered an immediate halt Wednesday to manufacture of diethylstilbestrol (DES) for use in livestock feeds.

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Pete Etchart, Meeker, Colo., contracted 3500 lambs to a Denver packer at $32 straight across, the fats delivered and weighed off in Denver, the feeders at a Northern Colorado feedlot.

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Taylor Feedlot, Dimmitt: 376 steers weighing 1025-1050 lbs., 60% choice, $34.50.

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Joe Baker, Amarillo, bought 150 heifers weighing 800 lbs., mostly choice, $35 out of the Hereford Feed Yard, Hereford.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 156 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $35.75.

25 YEARS AGO

Beef cow numbers have declined 12 percent, beef replacement heifers 21 percent from two years ago, says the Crop Reporting Board.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos, bought out of Central Texas 118 No. 2 Okie heifers weighing 366 pounds at $29.50 f.o.b. the feedyard.

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Owen Bros. Custom Feeding Co., Morton: 650 steers, 1040-1090 lbs., 75% choice, $41.

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Concho Livestock Co., San Angelo, has shipped to Illinois feeders 1985 choice steers and heifers, mostly yearlings in the 600-700 pound range, largely about $36 on heifers and $41 on steers, and a few choice calves in the 500 pound range at $35-36 on heifers and $42-43.50 on steers.

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Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan.: 1215 steers, 1075-1125 lbs., 80-85% choice, $41; 228 steers, same weight and grade, $41.25.

20 YEARS AGO

Dean Burger, Pampa, bought in the Crockett, Texas area one load of No. 1 steer and bull calves weighing 409 pounds at $69.

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Hughes Land & Livestock, Scott City, Kan.: 309 steers, 1104-1195 lbs., 85-90% choice, $65.50; 34 heifers, 1000 lbs., 85-90% choice, $62.50.

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Bar G Inc., Sylvester, Ga., sold on a delivered basis to a Texas Panhandle buyer 300 No. 1 Brahman cross heifers weighing 490 pounds at $60.80; to an Illinois buyer 193 similar heifers weighing 525 at $60.50; to Arkansas buyers 43 No. 1½-2 Okie and crossbred steer and bull calves weighing 195 at $69.88, also 52 similar steers and bulls weighing 265 at $61.11 and 78 similar heifers weighing 250 at $54.66.

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Reynolds-Wilson Cattle Feeders, Carrizo Springs: 502 heifers, 840 lbs., $61.50 to Mexico.

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Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan.: 123 steers, 1040 lbs., 70% choice, $65.50.

15 YEARS AGO

Cattle on feed July 1 in the quarterly reporting states totaled 8.67 million head, nine percent more than a year ago but the same as in 1985. The number was down one percent from the last quarterly report April 1.

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3-K Cattle Feeders, Hereford: 204 steers, 1050-1120 lbs., 60% choice, $63.50.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 403 steers, 1100 lbs., 65% choice, $64; 65 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $63.50; 162 steers, 1125 lbs., 50% choice, $63; 41 heifers, 950 lbs., 65% choice, $62.50.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in West Texas 3400 No. 1-2 crossbred steers weighing 650 pounds at $68 and 70 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 725 at $69; in New Mexico 325 choice exotic steer calves weighing 475 at $85 and 100 heifer mates weighing 450 at $75, plus 70 choice native steer yearlings weighing 800 pounds at $70; in Central Texas 140 No. 1½ Okie heifers weighing 700 at $64.

10 YEARS AGO

Direct sales out of Northern California as confirmed by USDA include 250 medium and large No. 1 steer yearlings weighing 725 pounds at $78.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 1258 heifers, 1040 lbs., 55% choice, $72; 790 steers, 1200 lbs., 55-60% choice, $72.

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Lykes Brothers Feed Yards, Edroy: 1100 heifers, 950 lbs., $71 late last week.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 1119 steers, 1125-1175 lbs., 60% choice, $72; 232 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $72.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 917 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $72; 165 heifers, 1000 lbs., 70% choice, $72.

5 YEARS AGO

PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 1232 heifers, 1025-1050 lbs., 50% choice, $66; 457 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $66.

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Feeder lambs moving direct in West Texas were worth mostly $90-92 on 75-85 pounds. Recent sales in Colorado had 80-90 pound lambs for $85,and Wyoming moved 75 pounders at $95 for October delivery. In Oregon 85-100 pound lambs made $82-84.

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Texas Panhandle area feedlots sold 111,400 head of cattle through Wednesday afternoon at mostly $66. The week’s showlist was 104,622 head.

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Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in West Texas for November delivery four loads of No. 1 Brangus cross steers to weigh 650 pounds at $89 and one load of heifer mates to weigh 550 at $82.

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Slaughter ewes in San Angelo sold for $49 to $59, a few up to $65 with fat ewes stopping at $55. Midwest ewes were mostly $38-48.50. Billings had ewes at $39-42.