45 YEARS AGO

Lloyd Kinyon of Clovis this week bought 200 steer calves, expected to weigh around 450 pounds, at Kenna, New Mexico, at 25 cents a pound.

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Dick Brummett, of Singer Brummett Cattle Company, Amarillo, bought from Johnny Kemp of Tucumcari, 500 steer yearlings weighing 700 pounds at $22.50.

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Arthur Letts, Amarillo, bought 364 mixed calves and short age yearlings weighing 475 in eastern New Mexico at $21.50 and $23.50 for heifers and steers, respectively.

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Jones Brothers of Junction last week bought 200 mixed Brahman-Hereford crossbred calves from Morgan Brothers of Andrews at 20 cents a pound straight across; the steers averaged 490 pounds, and the heifers which went to Mission Packing Company of San Antonio, 440 pounds.

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Feeder lambs in West Texas this week are quoted at 14 to 15 cents a pound. Trading is slow not only because of dull demand but also because lambs are about all gone.

40 YEARS AGO

Sheep and lamb trading reached a new low ebb for the season this week. Good and choice fat lambs sold from $21 to $22 in light volume at Fort Worth and were quoted $21-21.50 in San Angelo.

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Walter Fogerson of Clovis, N.M., sold 62 mixed calves weighing 431 pounds at $22 and $24 and delivered them Oct. 20 to an Amarillo buyer.

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Ben Keele of Tatum, N.M., bought 100 cows, 24 with calves and the rest springers, three to five years old, at $150 per cow from Lillard Dale of Lovington, delivered Oct. 23.

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Don Webb of Faith, S.D., sold 300 two year-old ewes to Claud Olson, Ludlow, S.D., at $26 per head, delivered Oct. 18. He also sold 300 head of three year-old ewes at $24 per head to a North Dakota buyer.

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Henry Maginot, San Angelo, bought 65,000 pounds of 12-month wool in the Dripping Springs area at $1.53 clean basis (core test).

35 YEARS AGO

A thousand head of what must be the healthiest yearling ewes in the United States are going to Venezuela. The ewes were bought for a Venezuelan principal by Dr. Hernan Casanova, former veterinary with the government of that country, from the Hixson Ranch Co., Ordway.

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Ernest Woodward, San Angelo, bought 120,000 pounds of yearling mohair from Sonora Wool & Mohair Co. at 90 cents.

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Pete Buske, Friona, Texas, sold 70 steers weighing 1132 pounds out of Hereford feedlots at $29 with three head out at $28 and delivered them to Wayne Yocum of Hereford for shipment to Wilson & Co., Oklahoma City.

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Stocker ewe lambs in Idaho have been selling rather actively at mainly 20 to 22½ cents a pound.

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Joe Gollenhorn of House, N.M., sold 55 mixed calves weighing 418 and 445 at $27 and $29 to Edward Sumrall of House.

30 YEARS AGO

Farris Feedlot at Hart sold 110 mostly choice 1108-pound steers at $26.25 and delivered them to a South Texas packer.

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Homer Hill of Hart bought 150 Hereford and Angus steer yearlings weighing about 700 pounds at $24 in the McLean area.

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F.L. Hommel of Clarendon sold a load of choice 1187-pound steers at $26.50 and delivered them to Armour & Co., Fort Worth.

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Uvalde Producers Wool & Mohair and Kinney County Wool & Mohair Co., Brackettville, both managed by Al Dishman of Uvalde, sold about 150,000 pounds of adult mohair, most of it fall clip at 32 cents per pound but with some spring hair at 35 cents.

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Spurlock Cattle Co., Panhandle, sold 330 good 680-700 pound heifers at $25 to an out-of-state packer.

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Allen Poling of Clayton, N.M., sold 900 Angus steer yearlings weighing about 600 pounds at $24 to G.L. Willis of Dimmitt.

25 YEARS AGO

The Concho Hereford Assn. annual bull sale averaged a record $1046 per head on 91 bulls. Top price was $2150, paid by P.H. Coates, Big Lake, for the champion bull consigned by Rocking Chair Ranch, Menard.

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Descent, a 16 year-old Palomino gelding, has been named bucking horse of the year for a record sixth season by the Rodeo Cowboys Assn. He is owned by the Beutler Bros. & Cervl stock contracting company, Sterling, Colo.

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W.M. "Bill" Yake, Stinett, Texas, sold to a Dumas buyer 249 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 561 pounds at $49 and to a Spearman buyer 200 No. 1 Okie preconditioned steer calves weighing about 370 at $220 per head, all delivered.

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Sooner Beef Producers, Guymon, Okla.: 185 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 75% choice, $33.75.

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H-C Cattle Co., Dalhart, sold to Nortex Feedlot Co. of that city 85 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing about 530 pounds at $40 and to a Dalhart buyer 150 Hereford steer calves weighing 490 at $50.50.

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Pre-Feeders, Summerfield: 211 steers weighing 1000 lbs., 70-75% choice, $34.25.

20 YEARS AGO

Tom Henry, Happy, bought in that area 200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 570 pounds at $40 and 160 No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 650 at $38.75.

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Si Elliott, Happy, sold to Dayton Barkley, Gruver, 325 plain steers weighing 502 pounds at $37.50.

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Wool Growers Central Storage Co., San Angelo, sold 160,000 pounds of mohair at sealed bid. The adult ranged $2.30-2.73, depending upon the degree of defect, the yearling $3.43-3.47.

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Parker Cattle Co., Wayside, Texas: 300 steers, 1100 lbs., 75% choice, $42.

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Cotton McDade, Amarillo, bought on order in the Clayton, N.M. area for a Kansas feedlot 109 Hereford, black baldface and Charolais cross heifers weighing 416 pounds at $34.97.

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Lockney Feed Yard, Lockney: 132 steers, 1070 lbs., 70% choice, $41.25.

15 YEARS AGO

River Ranch Co., Santa Rosa, N.M., sold to a Panhandle, Texas feedyard 2000 No. 1 steer yearlings weighing 700-750 pounds at $65.75.

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Alva J. and Allen Parker, Portales and Floyd, N.M., sold to a Tennessee buyer 210 No. 1 steers weighing 738 pounds at $62.50.

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Steve Scott, St. Vrain, N.M., sold to a Hereford, Texas feedyard 72 No. 1 and better steers weighing 630 pounds at $64.75.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 124 corriente steers, 1025 lbs., $60.

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Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort Worth, bought in the Amarillo area 200 No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 766 pounds at $64.25.

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Leonard Freis, Amarillo and Denver, bought in the Amarillo area 375 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing 650 pounds at $56.50.

10 YEARS AGO

Texas adult mohair has softened. Sales on at least 140,000 pounds of average adult have been confirmed at $1.90 per grease pound.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver, sold out of their Dalhart feedyard: 1200 steers, 1085-1125 lbs., 70% choice, $66.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 180 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 725 pounds at $75.

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Bill Porter, Lebanon, Tenn., sold on a delivered basis one load of No. 1 heifers weighing 300 pounds at $87 to Texas; a load of No. 2 steers and bulls weighing 400 at $70 to Kansas; and a load of No. 2 heifers weighing 328 at $66.25 to Oklahoma.

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Hitch Feeders No. 1, Hooker, Okla.: 152 steers, 1075-1125 lbs., 60% choice, $66; 81 heifers, 975-1000 lbs., 50-60% choice, $64.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Howard Belcher, San Angelo, sold 700 solidmouth Rambouillet ewes, to begin lambing immediately, to a Los Angeles, Calif. buyer for $55 per head.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in West Texas 500 choice steers weighing 500-525 pounds at $86; in the Texas Panhandle 75 choice steers weighing 700 at $82; in New Mexico 100 choice heifers weighing 450 at $81.

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San Angelo Feed Yards, San Angelo: 180 Holstein steers, 1050 lbs., $72.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 110 heifers, 1000 lbs., 30% choice, $75.50.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 796 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $76; 272 heifers, 1050 lbs., 55% choice, $76.

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Reeves County Feeders, Verhalen: 250 heifers, 1050 lbs., 40% choice, $74.50.