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Otho
Drake of San Angelo this week bought 1000 mutton lambs on northern
order at 17 cents a pound. Purchases included one load from Hillery
Phillips of Ozona, 100 from Gerald Hartgraves of Eldorado, and about
two loads from Sam Carnes of Sterling City. The lambs weighed from 68
to 84 pounds. __________ Cotton
McDade of Clayton, New Mexico, this week bought 60 steer calves
weighing 308 pounds at $20.75 cwt. and 20 steer yearlings weighing 550
pounds at $18 from Largent and Sadler of Grenville, New Mexico. __________ R.C.
Johnson and Son of Dalhart bought 809 steer calves weighing 440 pounds
at $18.50 cwt. from U Bar ranch of Muleshoe, November 19 delivery. __________ Carroll
Lewis of Clarendon sold 48 mixed calves averaging 300 pounds at 17 and
19 cents to Buck Cone of Amarillo, November 23 delivery. __________ The
Hoover Ranch of Tucumcari, New Mexico, has sold 500 cut-back cows to
Pete Caviness of Clovis at six, eight and nine cents a pound, price
depending on condition of the cows. __________ Charlie
Silvers of Morton, Texas, last week sold and delivered 302 mixed
calves averaging 398 pounds at $16.50 and $18.50 cwt. to L.C. Hill of
Wellington. __________ Fifty-six
bulls and six females averaged $260 each at the annual One-Stop
Hereford Sale last week at Lovington, New Mexico. __________ Jack
Canning of Eden has contracted around 2000 heavy wooled lambs for
delivery off grain fields in the Eden area December 15 to January 15
at 18 cents a pound. 45
YEARS AGO Rex
Sanders of Spearman, Texas, bought 750 choice steer calves averaging
408 pounds at $35 and received them last week from Cotton McDade of
Clayton, N.M. These were Diamond A calves off the old 3-V Ranch at
Seligman, Ariz. J.A. Pitman of Hereford bought 670 steers of the same
brand weighing 396 at $36 cwt., delivered to Hereford. __________
Bob
Lantis of Dodge City, Kan., bought 280 heifer yearlings weighing 660
pounds at $25 from Winfield and received them recently on order for a
Nebraska feeder. __________ Les
Parker of Stratford has sold 1300 steer yearlings for future delivery
to Gilbert Childers of Dalhart at $25 cwt. Delivery
is at seller’s option. Parker plans to deliver 300-350 heavier
steers, weighing near 850 pounds, sometime in December; the remaining
950-1000 head, expected to weigh near 800 pounds, will be delivered
about April 1. __________ Ben
Sheppard, order buyer of Springfield, Mo., this week bought in the
Flint Hills of Kansas, 100 choice Angus cows, three to six years old,
and three Angus bulls at $300 each for the 103 head; they were bought
for a western Oklahoma rancher. __________ Gary
Simms of Panhandle, Texas, bought 131 heifer calves weighing about 300
pounds at $95 per head and received them this week from Charlie Ford
of Amarillo. 40
YEARS AGO Lewis
Kinkead of Tucumcari sold 170 steer calves weighing 497 pounds at
$22.50 and delivered them recently to Jim McConnell of St. Joseph, Mo. __________ Joe
Berg of St. Francis, Texas, sold 137 heifer yearlings weighing 725 at
$18 for shipment this week to Illinois feeders. __________ Buel
Gray of Skellytown, Texas, bought one load of good age cows weighing
about 1000 pounds and calves weighing near 400 at $235 per pair,
delivered last week, from Ernie Bill Terry of White Deer. __________ The
T-4 Cattle Co., Tucumcari, N.M., sold 500 cut cows averaging 950
pounds at $12, delivered last week to F.G. Collard of Amarillo. __________ Alton
Ainsworth of Bledsoe, Texas, bought 68 mixed calves weighing 373 at
$20 and $22, delivered last weekend, from Dutch Hinds of Crosbyton;
also 66 calves weighing 380 at $21 and $23 from Luther Jones of Spur,
delivered recently. 35
YEARS AGO Widespread
Texas rains this week curtailed auction runs and improved both the
pasture and field grazing outlook. This further tightens supplies of
feeder lambs. In direct trade, San Angelo dealers quoted feeders at
$25-25.50. __________ Nortex
Feedlot Co., Dalhart, sold 94 heifers weighing 870, grading 65 percent
choice, at $25.50 to a New Mexico packer. __________ Cotton
McDade of El Paso sold and delivered off the Garrett Ranch at Santa
Fe, N.M., 650 Angus two to six year-old cows at $170 per head, 91 cows
at $15 cwt., and 36 Hereford and four Angus bulls at $250 each to
Lewis Cooper, Kenna, N.M. __________ Roy
Wood, Farley, N.M., sold 193 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 575 at $26.25
to a Texas buyer. __________ Bogle
& Bogle, Clovis, N.M., sold 180 mostly choice 985 pound steers at
$27.25 to a Texas packer. 30
YEARS AGO Ranchers
who set out to buy cottonseed feed this week found that the price
jumped $20 a ton in a single day. Quotations on 41 percent protein
cake this week were about $200 a ton f.o.b. the mills, meal about
$197. __________ Gene
McGlaun, representing Doubledeck Cattle Co., Clovis, bought and
received in the Capitan, N.M., area 500 choice Hereford steer calves
weighing about 400 pounds at $62 and in the Athens, Texas area 114 No.
2 Okie steers weighing about 600 at $50. __________ Dumas
Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 480 steers, 1065 lbs., mostly choice, $39.50. __________ Panhandle
Feed Yard, Turpin, Okla.: 230 heifers, 1000 lbs., 80% choice, $38. 25
YEARS AGO Eldorado
Wool & Mohair Co. set records on the sale of a single fall clip
totaling about 31,500 pounds. It included about 20,000 pounds of adult
at $5.677, about 9000 pounds of yearling at $6.719 and 2500 pounds of
kid at $8.059. __________ Dick
Russell, Bueyeros, N.M., sold
off a Riverton, Wyo. ranch to an Idaho buyer 200 black baldface heifer
and steer calves weighing 470 and 490 pounds at $65 and $70. __________ Doc
Hagan, Yoakum, sold to a South Texas buyer 150 crossbred cows with 31
calves on them at $550 per cow. __________ Tri-State
Cattle Feeders, Hereford: 91 heifers, 920-930 lbs., 70-75% choice,
$53. __________ K&S
Cattle Co., Devine, bought in the Freer area 163 Santa Gertrudis
replacement heifers weighing 650 pounds at $375 per head. 20
YEARS AGO The
famed Cananea steer calves from Sonora, Mexico, 1750 head weighing
360-370 pounds, reportedly have sold to an American buyer at $75.50
cwt. on the Mexican side of the border across from Douglas, Ariz.
These are described as high quality Herefords with a sprinkling of
Charolais cross. __________ Buddy
Major Cattle Co., Los Lunas, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 3000 good
native yearling heifers weighing about 580-600 pounds at $54. __________ Caprock
Industries, Gruver, sold out of their Leoti, Kan. feedyard 1100
steers, 1075 lbs., 65% choice, $62. __________ Three
loads of lambs were at Iowa points on the National Lamb Electronic
Auction in a $58.25-60 range for shorn lambs. __________ Ty
Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in Southern New Mexico 200 Angus and
black baldface steer calves weighing 500 pounds at $66, also 850 No. 1
Okie steers weighing 700 at $57.75. 15
YEARS AGO Cedar
Springs Ranch, Harper, sold through Mason Livestock Exchange 60 extra
choice Angus heifer calves caked on grass and saved for replacements,
weight 548 pounds at $99. Eighty-nine steer mates, not caked, weighed
544 at $94.25. __________
Seven X Feedyard, Summerfield: 31 steers, 1150 lbs., 60%
choice, $73. __________ Cattle
Town Inc., Hereford: 127 steers, 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $73.50; 152
steers, 1150-1175 lbs., 60% choice, $73. __________ PACO
Feed Yard, Friona: 120 heifers, 1025 lbs., 50% choice, $72. __________ Colorado
Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 993 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $73.50; 826
heifers, 990 lbs., 60% choice, $73. 10
YEARS AGO Sheep
and lambs on feed for slaughter in the 16 major feeding states totaled
1.55 million head on Nov. 1. Lambs accounted for 1,458,000 head,
mature sheep 80,000 head. The Jan. 1 figures had 1.66 million on feed,
including 1.58 million lambs and 81,000 sheep. __________ Vann-Roach
Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in Central Texas one load of choice
preconditioned exotic steer and heifer calves weighing 525 pounds
straight across at $89 and $84. __________ In
Goldthwaite slaughter lambs weighing 90-130 pounds brought
$63.50-69.50. Midwest fat lambs brought $70-76 and Virginia had fats
at $66.75-68. __________ Walter
Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 129 heifers, 1000 lbs., 50% choice, $73;
97 steers, 1175 lbs., $73. __________ Clayton
Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M.: 81 heifers, 1000 lbs., $73. 5
YEARS AGO California
sold 210,000 pounds of lamb wool with whiteface 20.6-23.5 micron
bringing 37 cents grease, crossbred 23.5-26 micron 30 cents. Nearly
530,000 pounds has sold in warehouse trading the past two weeks.
Mohair trading was slow. In Texas 15,000 pounds of yearling kid went
at $2.50, No. 2 at $2.25. __________ A
total of 64 bulls averaged $2076 per head in the West Central Texas
Angus Association sale at Producers Livestock Auction in San Angelo.
The high selling bull was consigned by Hales Cattle Co., Canyon, and
sold to Walter C. Pope, Eldorado, for $4300. __________ Total
red meat production under federal inspection last week was estimated
at 914.7 million pounds, four percent more than a week ago and 5.1
percent above a year ago. __________ Texas
Panhandle movement showed 27,800 head of cattle, but almost 25,000 of
those were formulas and the bulk of the others sold Friday. Packers by
late Tuesday were bidding $60 after earlier bids reported as low as
$59. __________ Brown
Cattle Co., Clyde, sold on a delivered basis to Texas Panhandle buyers
one load of fancy No.1 English and English-exotic cross steers and
bulls weighing 477 pounds at $81.30, also a short load of No. 1
English and one-eighth Brahman cross steers and bulls weighing 477 at
$78.90. __________ Fat
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