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Cotton McDade of Clayton, New Mexico, last weekend bought 500 Angus mixed calves expected to weigh around 425 pounds from Joe Smith and Son of Dalhart for October 27 and 28 delivery at $18 and $20 cwt. for heifers and steers, respectively. These are the Higgins Ranch calves, raised at Texline and described as strictly choice. __________ Joe Mimms of Roswell, New Mexico, is reported to have sold 400 mixed feeder lambs this week at $14.25 cwt. __________ Paul Pruitt of Clovis bought 80 steer calves from Red Best of Floyd, New Mexico, at $15, October 6 delivery. __________ Lem Jones of Junction this week bought 200 Brahman cows, some with calves at side, from Nelson Letho of Balmorhea at eight cents a pound. __________ Max Riley of Roswell, New Mexico, last week bought 3500 mixed whiteface feeder lambs from Joyce and Alzugary of Carsbad at $13.50 cwt. __________ Bill O’Laughlin of Miami, Texas, sold 150 mixed calves weighing 358 pounds at $14 and $15, October 2 delivery, to Wallace Locke of Amarillo. 45 YEARS AGO J.C. Thomas Jr., Plainview, sold 96 cows weighing 867 pounds at $22 cwt., located near Roscoe, Texas, and delivered them last weekend to Pete Timmons of Matador. Thomas bought two loads of Brangus cows, threes to sixes weighing around 900, with 400-pound calves on them, at $275 per pair and received them Nov. 3 from Holt Holloway, Lubbock. __________ C.V. Lowe of Gruver, Texas, sold 147 plain quality black steer yearlings weighing 728 pounds at $24 to Carl Frank, Guymon, Okla., delivered last Saturday. __________ Tommy Deal of Panhandle, Texas, sold 113 Angus-Hereford crossbred heifer and steer calves weighing 483 pounds at $32 straight across to JJ Cattle Co., Panhandle. __________ Henry Cone of Canyon bought one load of five year-old cows with five calves on them from Bob Miller of Melrose, N.M., at $160 per cow; and a load of cows with two calves at $180 from Earl Lipe of Canyon. __________ L.D. Littlefield of Groom, Texas, bought 400 mixed breed heifer and steer calves weighing near 400 pounds at $113 per head and received them from a Mr. Schaffer of Del Norte, Colo. 40 YEARS AGO Billy Brewster, Dalhart, sold 235 heifer yearlings weighing 570 at $17.75 to Burlington Cattle Co., Burlington, Okla., delivered Oct. 26; also 275 steer yearlings weighing 650 at $18.75 to Cecil Cornelius of Denver, delivered last weekend. __________ Joe Rountree of Lutie, Texas, bought 234 mixed breed steers weighing 743 net at $18 with 10 percent cut at $16 and received them last week in the Shamrock area. __________ Doc Collier, representing Ebner Bros. Packing Co., Wichita Falls, this week bought 134 good steers and heifers averaging 800 pounds from Macon Boddy, Wichita Falls, at $20 out of the Clayco Cattle Co. feedlot at Petrolia. Collier also bought 90 high good heifers weighing 700 pounds from Don Howard of Waurika, Okla., at $20.50. __________ The O Bar Ranch at Guymon, Okla., sold 250 good Hereford steers weighing about 600 pounds at $19.50 and delivered them late last week to a Texhoma buyer. __________ Jerry Thomason of Pampa sold 119 steers estimated to weigh about 500 or a little better at $102.50 per head to a local buyer, delivered last week. 35 YEARS AGO Total red meat production under federal inspection last week was estimated at 623 million pounds, slightly above the previous week and nine percent above a year ago. __________ Her-Tex Livestock Industries, Hereford, bought 135 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 335 pounds at $24.50 delivered from the Calvert, Texas area. __________ Mrs. U.D. Sawyer, Cross Roads, N.M., sold 260 Hereford mixed calves weighing 447 and 472 at $27 and $31 and 40 Hereford steers weighing 650 at $25 to Cliff Key, Tatum, N.M. __________ Midwest Feed Yards, San Angelo, has sold 715 fed lambs to Armour & Co. for $26.25, weighing about 93 pounds, mostly in No. 3 skins, a few No. 2. __________ Billy McCasland, Clovis, N.M., sold a load of good 675 pound heifers at $25.25 out of Castor Farms & Feed Yards, Farwell, Texas, to a Texas packer. __________ Henry Cone, Canyon, sold 90 Angus heifer calves weighing about 360 pounds at $97 a head to Jim Alridge, Dimmitt. 30 YEARS AGO Cattle entering Texas from Mexico totaled 1650 head during October, reports the Texas Animal Health Commission. Imports to Texas from January to September this year totaled 128,891 compared with 271,164 in the same period last year. __________ Bill Lewis, Garden City, representing Roundup Cattle Co., Gruver, bought in La Junta, Colo., 80 Hereford steers weighing 480 pounds at $59. __________ Ducky Gallo, Dalhart, bought from Allen Poling, Clayton, N.M., 200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 725 pounds at $49. __________ Beef Cattle Co., Wheeler: 207 steers, 1075 lbs., 75-80% choice, $41.50; 156 steers, 1050 lbs., 65% choice, $41. __________ Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 52 heifers, 900 lbs., 70% choice, $39.50. __________ Sooner Beef Producers, Guymon Okla.: 262 heifers, 925-950 lbs., 60% choice, $38.50. 25 YEARS AGO Billings, Montana quoted feeder lambs weighing 60-75 pounds $77-82.75, 75-85 pounds $74-81, 85-90 pounds $66-77, and 90-105 pounds $63-69. __________ Mike Harriet, Datil, N.M., sold to an out of state buyer 65 Hereford cut cows weighing 1000 pounds at $38. __________ Darrell Seward, Leon, Kansas, bought in the local area 115 black whiteface heifer and steer calves weighing 465 pounds at $67 and $75. __________ Dave Scott, United Livestock, Sealy, sold out of that area 95 No. 1 crossbred heifers weighing 421 pounds at $57.84 f.o.b. Sealy. __________ Glenn Ball, Strawn, sold out of a plains feedlot: 210 steers, fed 112 days, 1075 lbs., 75% choice, $53. 20 YEARS AGO Putt White, Santa Rosa, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 570 No. 1 Okie and a few crossbred steers weighing 862 pounds at $58. __________ Homer Ingle, Tucumcari, N.M., sold to a local buyer 65 black baldface heifers and steers weighing 406 and 436 pounds at $53 and $65. __________ Ben Hall, Fort Sumner, N.M., sold to Parmer County Feedyard, Bovina, 1000 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 664 pounds at $59. __________ Jeff Good, Fort Sumner, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 150 Hereford steers of his own raising weighing 851 pounds at $57.50. __________ Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan.: 279 steers, 1150 lbs., 80% choice, $59.85. 15 YEARS AGO The Eastern Lamb Producers Co-op sold a load out of Virginia Wednesday at $63.75 and $61.75. __________ USDA quoted a set of Montana feeder lambs weighing 75-80 pounds at $70, ewe lambs 65-70 pounds $80. __________ PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 64 heifers, 1025-1050 lbs., 50% choice, $73. __________ Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 70 steers, 1150 lbs., 75% choice, $74; 125 steers, 1175 lbs., 65% choice, $73.50; 233 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $73. __________ Sugarland Feedyard, Hereford: 90 heifers, 1050 lbs., 65% choice, $73; 65 corriente steers, 1150 lbs., 55% choice, $72. 10 YEARS AGO Kid mohair has been hard to move the past year, and what sales have been made were little above adult prices. Recent sales were at $1.25-1.30, but changed this week when 40,000 pounds of fall kid hair in Sanderson and Ozona reached $1.40 grease f.o.b. the warehouses with a December payment. __________ Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico 75 No. 1 Okie and exotic heifers weighing 700 pounds at $82. __________ Lykes Brothers Feed Yards, Edroy: 505 heifers, 1000 lbs., $72. __________ Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 607 heifers, 1050-1100 lbs., 60% choice, $74; 164 steers, 1175 lbs., 60% choice, $74. __________ Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 294 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $74; 162 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $74. 5 YEARS AGO Meat passed for entry into the United States totaled 30.3 million pounds last week, the equivalent of three percent of the 892.5 million pounds of domestic production. Most of the meat, 16.3 million pounds, was from Australia. __________ Lamb and mutton passed for entry into the United States moved up to 944 metric tons last week, or 2.1 million pounds and the equivalent of 44 percent of domestic production. __________ There was a little good wool news from Australia last week; the eastern market indicator moved up 19A cents per kilo and more than 90 percent sold. New Zealand was higher for the second consecutive week. __________ Lane County Feeders, Dighton, Kan.: 333 steers, 1300 lbs., $64; 217 heifers, 1050-1125 lbs., $64. __________ Hitch Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 101 steers, 1250 lbs., 50% choice, $64. |
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