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Bert Chitwood, Friona, Texas, sold to Weisbart Cattle Company,
Denver, 43 steers averaging 900 pounds at $21.25 and 19 heifers
weighing 750 at $19.75, January 23 delivery. _________
Toots Mansfield, Big Spring, sold 650 clipped lambs, mixed fats
and feeders, at $17 through Roy Harkey of San Angelo. Harkey also
sold, for John Oates of Fort Stockton, one load of stocker cows at $80
each. _________
Frank Cooper of Amarillo bought six loads of yearling heifers
averaging 700 pounds at $17.75 from Jim Bynum of Amarillo, January 25
delivery, for shipment to Colorado feeders. _________
Bill Sykes of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, this week sold, through
Travis Killough of Fort Sumner, 170 heifer and steer yearlings to
Russell Ellsaesser of Sublett, Kansas for delivery April 15 at 20
cents a pound straight across. Joe Killough of Fort Sumner sold 140
steer yearlings for February 1 delivery off wheat fields in the Clovis
area at $19.50 through Travis Killough. _________
Jim Mueller of Mason has contracted around 350 steer yearlings
for delivery May 1 at 20 cents a pound; these are grass-wintered
cattle and are described as choice Mason County yearlings expected to
weigh 550 to 600 pounds on delivery. Mueller also bought 620 four
year-old dehorned Hereford steers at Cuero for April 20 to May 2
delivery. 45
YEARS AGO
Ray Logsdon of Hollis, Okla., bought, on order for northern
shipment, 98 fed steers estimated to weigh 1100 pounds at $270 per
head from Oscar Bryant, Hollis, for delivery this week. _________
Frank Fuller of Clovis, N.M., bought three loads of fed steers
for delivery from now until Feb. 15 at $26.25 from Lloyd Farris of
Hart, Texas; these are expected to weigh about 1150 pounds. _________
Pete Buske of Friona, Texas, sold 213 steers weighing 770
pounds at $26.75 to Fred Darden of Visalia, Calif., delivered Jan. 19.
Buske bought 59 Angus mixed calves weighing 470 and 485 at $30 and $34
and received them last week from M.A. Black of Friona. _________
George Porter of Amarillo is reported to have sold 300 steers
weighing 750-775 pounds, 200 of them good quality Herefords and the
balance "Okie" type, at $26 to Dick Brummett, Amarillo, for
Feb. 1 delivery. _________
J.E. Littlefield of Happy, Texas, bought one load of mixed
breed heifer and steer calves averaging 435 at $26 from Fred Cox of
Happy for delivery this week. 40
YEARS AGO
Glenn Perkins of Lampasas sold 400 Angora mutton kids described
as strictly choice quality at $11 per head to Gene Conner of San Saba. _________
P.H. Williams of Amarillo sold 100 Hereford steers weighing 522
pounds at $21 and delivered them last week to a local buyer. _________
James Dyer of Alpine, Texas, last week bought 125 choice
Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing about 325 pounds at $19 and
$22 from Joe Lane of Alpine. _________
Homer Hill of Hart sold 240 good and choice fed steers weighing
about 1250 pounds at $23 for delivery this week to Kain Cattle Co.,
Lubbock. He also sold 215 good and choice steers weighing 1125 pounds
at $22.50 for delivery this week to Bill Wallace of Amarillo, buying
for Supreme Beef Co., Lubbock. _________
The Thurman Johnson feedlot at Goldthwaite last week sold 400
fat lambs weighing 86 pounds and carrying No. 1 skins at $21 to Armour
& Co., San Angelo. 35 YEARS AGO
Summer grass leases
in Northeastern New Mexico were costing about the same as the previous
year. Wheatheart Feeders, Perryton, Texas, leased the Claude Garett
ranch near Gladstone to graze 3200 steers going in weighing 400-425
pounds at 11 cents a pound for the season’s gain; the cattle were to
be shrunk going in and coming out, the owners to absorb the death
loss. _________
Mike Echeverria, Casa Grande, Ariz., bought 5500 Texas
Columbia-Rambouillet crossbred yearling ewes at $24 per head for
May-June delivery, buyer’s option. Columbia and crossbred bucks are
to be turned with them in May. The ewes were being wintered at
Brackettville and Uvalde; 3500 belonged to C.B. Hodge, Salado, and
2000 to him and his brother, John Robert Hodge, Uvalde. _________
Pete Buske, Friona,
bought 500 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers expecting to
weigh 550-600 pounds at $27.50 for March 1-May 1 delivery from Charlie
Grice, Dalhart. _________
The American
National Cattlemen’s Assn. had its 72nd annual convention in
Honolulu. _________
Jim Williams,
Panhandle, bought 187 good quality steers of Mexican origin weighing
360 pounds at $32 cwt. from Dick Weatherly, Panhandle. 30 YEARS AGO
WW Cattle Co.,
Dimmitt, bought from the Diamond A Cattle Co. near Dimmitt 1100 No. 1
Okie steers weighing 812 pounds payweight at $51; they had been on a
growing ration and were received. _________
Potter Craig,
Clovis, bought in the Broadview, N.M. area 151 No. 1 Okie steers
weighing 540 pounds at $55.75 delivered. _________
Billy Chesnut,
Dalhart, bought in the Brownwood area one load of No. 1 Okie heifers
weighing 418 pounds at $50.25. _________
Caprock Industries,
Gruver: 290 steers, 1075-1100 lbs., 65-70% choice, $51; 124 steers,
1050-1175 lbs., 65-70% choice, $50.75. _________
Ducky Gallo,
Dalhart, bought from J.D. Frazier, Dalhart, 60 native Hereford steers
weighing 544 pounds at $57. 25 YEARS AGO
Darrell Hargrove,
Southwest Livestock Exchange, Del Rio, bought at San Angelo 700
yearling to three year-old Rambouillet ewes at $100 per head. They are
bred to start lambing Feb. 5. _________
J.V. Curtis,
Forrest, N.M., sold to a Friona feedyard 58 No. 1 steers weighing 794
pounds at $71. _________
Herman Birkenfeld,
Nazareth, bought in that area 47 No. 1 and better heifers weighing 600
pounds at $65.50. _________
Bower & Huber,
Worland, Wyo., bought locally 200 choice steers, mostly Herefords,
weighing 475 pounds at $85. _________
LK Buying Co.,
Guymon, Okla., bought 142 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 681 pounds at
$72.50. _________
Harry Strain,
Milnesand, N.M., sold to an out-of-state buyer for October delivery
220 No. 1 steers to weigh 750 pounds at $69.50. 20 YEARS AGO
The grand champion
steer of the National Western Stock show in Denver this year was an
Angus-Chianina crossbred weighing 1224 pounds shown by Kody Newman, of
Stanton, Texas. _________
Ty Jones Cattle
Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle for April 1-15 delivery two
loads of No. 1 steers to weigh 700 pounds at $66.50. _________
Sugarland Feed
Yard, Hereford: 297 heifers, 1000 lbs., $68.50. _________
USDA quoted 800
Arizona lambs, choice and prime 116 pounders in No. 1 pelts, at $63
f.o.b. _________
Klemme Cattle Co.,
Springfield, Mo., sold on a delivered basis to a Colorado buyer 184
choice Simmental cross steers weighing 529 pounds at $67.83. _________
Surge irrigation, a
relatively new concept on the high plains, was the subject of a high
plains irrigation conference in Amarillo. 15 YEARS AGO
The Blackwell,
Okla. teleauction sold a load of slaughter lambs at $66. _________
JB Cattle Co.,
Abilene, sold on a delivered basis to Kansas buyers two loads of No. 1
Okie steers weighing 325 pounds at $113.50, also three loads of No. 1
Okie steers weighing 437 at $102.90 and two loads of No. 1 Okie steers
weighing 525 at $91.50. _________
Dimmitt Feed Yard,
Dimmitt: 350 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 70-75% choice, $74. _________
Walter Lasley &
Sons, Stratford: 1202 steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 65-70% choice, $74; 305
steers, 1100-1150 lbs., 60% choice, $73.50. _________
PACO Feed Yard,
Friona: 101 heifers, 985 lbs., 50% choice, $73. 10 YEARS AGO
Feeder lambs moving
direct in Wyoming sold at $57 on 105 pound weights. In Nevada 85 pound
lambs brought $55 and in Utah 90-105 pound offerings were $56. _________
Hitch Feeders,
Hooker, Okla.: 597 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $72.50; 255
heifers,1050 lbs., 50% choice, $72.50. _________
Walter Lasley &
Sons, Stratford: 397 steers, 1175 lbs., 60% choice, $72.50. _________
The Texas Cattle
Feeders Assn. tallied sales on 38,000 head by early Wednesday
afternoon. Kansas trade stood at about 33,000 for the week and
Nebraska had 46,600 head. _________ Jim Riffel, Stockton, Kan., bought in Central Kansas 50 native heifers weighing 681 pounds at $84.42 delivered to Nebraska, also 118 fancy home-raised steers weighing 857 at $79.50 f.o.b 5 YEARS AGO
Sheep and lamb
slaughter the first three full weeks of this year, at 192,000 head,
was 9.5 percent below that of the same period last year. _________
Randall County
Feedyard, Canyon: 613 heifers, 1120 lbs., 55% choice, $61. _________
Champion Feeders,
Hereford: 272 heifers, 1075 lbs., 45-50% choice, $61; 113 steers, 1175
lbs., 45-50% choice, $61. _________
Pork in freezers at
504.48 million pounds was up 14 percent from last month and 46 percent
above last year. Veal in freezers at 5.4 million pounds was up seven
percent from last month and down 33 percent from a year ago. _________
Vann-Roach Cattle
Co., Fort Worth, bought for March delivery in West Texas two loads of
No. 1 heifers to weigh 650 pounds at $3 back of the March board,
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