45 YEARS AGO

M.J. Green of Eden last week sold 382 mutton lambs to Walton Kothmann of Menard at 26 cents a pound. Elon Hutchinson of Eden also sold to Kothmann around 200 mutton lambs at the same price.

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Shelby Jersig of Clovis, New Mexico, has bought from Rose and Denson of Hobbs, New Mexico, 600 mixed calves for April delivery at 40 cents a pound. The calves, said to be strictly choice quality, are expected to weigh a little better than 400 pounds at delivery.

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C.S. Brininstool of Jal, New Mexico, sold to Hugh Ward, also of Jal, one load of bull calves at $250 per head.

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Tugie Liggett of Eden recently sold, through E.F. Palmer, 45 good aged cows at $200 per head to Baxter and Cruthers of Lometa. Liggett reportedly sold, to the same parties, 61 mixed calves which averaged 404 pounds at 33½ cents per pound.

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A growing demand for fall wool and lamb wool is apparent, the California Livestock News reported last week. Fall wool in the central part of the state was quoted at 53 to 54 cents, lamb wool 65 to 75 cents or higher.

40 YEARS AGO

Holt Cattle Co., Gruver, is reported to have sold about 1100 good quality two year-old steers averaging around 900 pounds at $17 to Fred Hill of Phoenix, Ariz., and delivered them a week to 10 days ago.

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Mid-West Feed Yards in San Angelo bought two loads of fall shorn solidmouth ewes at $7.25 per head and a load of yearling ewes at $12 per head from Frank Newsom of Alpine; also a load of yearling ewes at $12 per head through Bob Corder, Rocksprings; and three loads of light stocker lambs, around 50 pounds, from Virgil Rogers of San Angelo at $16.50 cwt.

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Jim Yeaman of Claude, Texas, bought 80 choice quality steer calves weighing around 450 pounds at $20.25 from Caskey & Foley, delivered this week.

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W.J. Pringle of Rose, Kan., bought 60 good four year-old cows, a fourth with calves and the balance springers, at $90 per head from Leon Wilhelm, Amarillo.

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R.O. Hayter, Waynoka, Okla., is reported to have bought 200 feeder cows weighing around 900 pounds at $7.50 cwt. for delivery next week from Charles Harold of Carrizozo, N.M.

35 YEARS AGO

Kenneth Cook of Vega, Texas, sold 201 steer yearlings weighing 625 at $23.25 and delivered them to Kansas buyers.

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Z.A. McCasland of Clovis, N.M., sold 220 shortfed heifers weighing about 730 pounds at $22.75 to Pinkney Packing Co., Amarillo.

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Ed Buddy of Amarillo bought for Armour in Fort Worth, 162 fed steers weighing about 1200 pounds at $23.75 from the Boone feedlots at Dalhart.

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T.J. Johnson of Wheeler, Texas, sold 94 steer yearlings weighing a little under 700 pounds at $23.40 to Shot Miller of Amarillo.

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Don Thoreson of Gruver, Texas, sold 232 steer yearlings described as just good Herefords weighing 626 pounds at $23.75 to a northern buyer.

30 YEARS AGO

A new commercial feedlot, Sublette Feeders, Inc., was opened recently by four local stockmen and farmers and an elevator firm. Owners are Ed Hall, Wallace Orth, Diaden Farms, E.E. Spanier, and McCoy Grain Co.

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The Australian Meat Board has announced that the ship Ventura sailed Oct. 27 en route to United States and Canadian destinations bringing a total of 418,880 pounds of beef, 707,840 pounds of mutton and 53,760 pounds of lamb.

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Odus Wittenburg of Del Rio sold 1000 solidmouth Rambouillet ewes with 30-pound whiteface lambs on them at $9 to $12 per head, counting noses, and several smaller bunches of older ewes with small lambs at $9 per head.

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Jim Easley of Hereford bought and received 100 No. 1 Okie steer yearlings weighing 680 pounds at $23.50 in the Elida, N.M. area.

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Homer Hill of Hart bought 225 Hereford steer calves weighing 484 pounds at $27.25 in the Amarillo area.

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Sam Elliott of Amarillo sold 60 Angus steer calves weighing 400 pounds to Harold Erwin of Amarillo at $120 per head.

25 YEARS AGO

Charlie Schwartz, Junction, has sold to West Texas buyers 600 two year-old Angora nannies for $5.50 per head.

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Swift & Henry Commission Co., Kansas City, Mo., bought 1000 light Hereford, Angus and black baldface calves from the Arizona-Colorado Cattle Co. Baca Grant Ranch, Moffat, Colo., with a 300 pound weight limit at $50; the calves have been shipped to South Texas to winter on grass.

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L.R. French Jr., Midland, sold and delivered from his Chama, N.M., ranch to Colorado feeders about 4000 Mexican Hereford and Hereford type steers weighing 489 pounds at $37.

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Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort Worth, bought out of western Louisiana 750 Brangus heifers weighing 475 pounds at $33.25.

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Hansford Feedyard, Spearman: 225 steers weighing 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $33.50.

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Texico Feedlots, Texico, N.M.: 100 Holstein steers weighing 1125 lbs., $30.

20 YEARS AGO

Ralph Britten, Groom, bought in the Reydon, Okla. area 100 Hereford and black baldface heifer and steer calves weighing about 450 pounds straight across at $31 and $40.

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Flint Hills Feedlot, Emporia, Kan., bought in that area 175 choice steers weighing 640 pounds at $34.

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Carl Turner, representing Double T Cattle Co., Huntsville, Ala. bought in the Kissimmee, Fla. area 81 No. 1-2 crossbred steers weighing 510 pounds at $34; in the same area 87 No. 1 Hereford-Brahman cross steers weighing 525 pounds at $33.

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Parmer County Cattle Co., Bovina: 128 steers, 1125-1140 lbs., 75-80% choice, $40.

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H&H Feedlot, Roscoe: 240 heifers, 750 lbs., good with few choice, $37; 130 heifers, 650 lbs., good, $36.

15 YEARS AGO

The American Hereford Assn. in Kansas City elected John R. Howarch, president: Jack Vanier, Brookville, Kan., senior vice president: and Mrs. W. Knox, Midland, Texas, president of the association auxiliary at the 100th annual convention.

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Butch Priest, Clovis, bought in Alabama two loads of No. 1 steers weighing 400 pounds at $67.18 delivered.

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Mark Smith, Lovington, N.M., sold to a Clovis buyer 150 heifer and steer calves weighing 540 and 575 pounds at $52.50 and $62.50.

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Leonard Freis, Amarillo and Denver, bought in the Kremlin, Colo. area 380 Limousin cross heifers weighing 655 pounds at $56.

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Mike James, Amarillo, sold to a Texas Panhandle feedlot one load of No. 1 Okie steers weighing 640 pounds at $65, also a load of No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 650 at $56.

10 YEARS AGO

A load of 118 pound fed lambs at Eaton, Colo. brought $68. Some Utah lambs weighing in the mid to high 120s have been bought at $68 to mostly $69 for shipment to West Coast slaughtering plants.

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Cattle on feed Nov. 1 in the seven leading feeding states totaled 7.55 million head, down fractionally from a year ago and eight percent from two years ago. They were up from the 6.81 million reported Oct. 1.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver, sold out of their Gruver No. 1 feedyard: 412 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $62.50.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 60 short-fed heifers, 1025 lbs., $61.

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Colorado Beef, Lamar, Colo.: 2568 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $63; 620 heifers, 1025 lbs., 70% choice, $62.

5 YEARS AGO

Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Stockton, bought in the Texas Panhandle two loads of No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 750 pounds at $85.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 2726 steers, 1100-1175 lbs., 45% choice, $74; 185 heifers, 975 lbs., 45% choice, $74.

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Bill Porter, Bowling Green, Ky., sold on a delivered basis to an Oklahoma buyer one load of No. 11/2 steers and bulls, 10-15 percent choice Angus, the balance baldies and exotics, weighing 300 pounds at $107; to a Kansas buyer one load of No. 1 multicolored steers and bulls weighing 400 at $88; to a Nebraska buyer one load of similar heifers weighing 400 at $83.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, Veribest: 90 heifers, 30% choice, 950-1000 lbs., $73; 35 Holstein steers, 1360 lbs., $67.