45 YEARS AGO

E.D. Caskey of Amarillo bought 150 steer yearlings weighing 457 pounds at $15.30 cwt. from Charlie Ford of Amarillo. They were delivered last Saturday and went to grass in northern New Mexico.

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Bill SoRelle of Amarillo sold 130 cows and calves at $132.50 per pair to Shelton and Chamberlain of Clarendon. The cows were four to six years old and were loaded June 11 at Plainview, Texas.

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Jack Richardson of Uvalde has bought 1000 cows and calves in that area for shipment to a 2500-acre plantation he has leased in Louisiana. The cattle he bought were drouth-distress stock, he said, and cost $75 to $100 per pair, some as little as $50.

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Willie Wilkinson of Menard is one of the best-known stockmen of Central Texas, where he and his family have long been prominent producers of sheep, cattle and goats.

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From the Classifieds: Purebred Shepherds, Collies, Retrievers, Scotties; males $7, females $5, spayed $9. Chas Gross, Grafton, Nebraska.

40 YEARS AGO

Don Kuper of Dalhart sold two loads of feeder steers weighing 775 pounds at $27, no cut, delivered last week to an Illinois buyer. He also sold, to the same buyer, 200 steers for Oct. 1-10 delivery at $26, no cut, expected to weigh around 825 pounds at delivery.

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Bravo Ranch Co., Nara Visa, N.M., sold 100 Angus steer calves to Cotton McDade, Clayton, for Nov. 1 delivery at $31 cwt.; these are expected to weigh near 500 pounds.

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Boots Harlan, Clayton, N.M., bought 135 Angus heifer and steer calves expected to weigh around 450 pounds for Oct. 1-15 delivery at $30.25 for the heifers and $32.25 for the steers, from J.H. Anglin & Son, Clayton.

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Doug Dettle and Roy Mitchell of Stratford, Texas, are reported to have sold and delivered about 90 choice quality steer yearlings weighing 600 pounds at $28.35 to a Clayton, N.M. buyer.

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Fat springers brought up to $22.50 in Fort Worth and $21.50 in the country.

35 YEARS AGO

Ben Davidson of the Sudan Livestock & Feeding Co., Sudan, Texas, said milo is quoted $1.79 there.

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Bogle Feedlots, Clovis, sold about 100 steers weighing 965 pounds at $22.15 to Wilson & Co., Oklahoma City.

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W.F. Clifton of Portales, N.M., sold 150 mixed breed steers weighing 450 pounds at $23 to Murry Jeffries of Lingo, N.M.

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Tulia Feedlots at Tulia, Texas, sold 62 fed steers grading choice and averaging 1157 pounds at $22 f.o.b. the lots delivered to Supreme Beef Co., Lubbock.

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Kenneth Cook of Vega, Texas, bought 151 heifer and steer calves weighing about 275 pounds at $73.50 per head from Allen Dockery of Catarina, Texas.

30 YEARS AGO

Floyd Fairleigh of Scott City, Kan., said 1.3 inches of rain fell at Scott City last Sunday and north of there a 6-inch deluge of rain and hail covered a strip two or three miles wide and 60 miles long; he said it ruined wheat where it fell and hurt corn, but the latter will come back.

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"Instant market news" 24 hours a day is how the USDA describes its three-minute recordings of latest information on livestock prices, trends and trading volume in Western Kansas and nearby areas of Colorado and Oklahoma. New information is fed into the device twice a day.

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Randall County Feed Yard, Amarillo, sold to Texas packers: 375 steers weighing 1020 and grading 70-75 percent choice at $26.75; and 147 similar grade heifers weighing 750 at $25.75.

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Pratt Feedlot at Pratt, Kan., sold 190 steers weighing 1125 at $27 and 172 weighing 1135 at $26.75 to Kansas packers.

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Shirley Fox, Texline, Texas, sold 122 heifers weighing 900 pounds and grading 80 percent choice, at $25 out of the John Nix feedlot at Texline to an Oklahoma packer.

25 YEARS AGO

Floyd Davis, Taiban, N.M., sold to an out-of-state buyer about 1000 good Okie steers weighing 650 pounds at $52.

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Herbert Kuhlman, Canyon, sold to a local buyer 100 Hereford and Angus steers weighing 745 pounds at $51.50.

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Joe White, Clovis, bought in the Waurika, Okla., area 300 No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 675 pounds at $50.

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B.J. Dodd, Melrose, N.M., sold to a Nebraska buyer 95 No.1 Okie steers weighing 725 pounds at $50.50.

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Perryton Feeders, Perryton: 45 steers weighing 1035 lbs., 60% choice, $45.75.

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Texsun Feedyards, Hereford: 90 heifers weighing 875 lbs., 75% choice, $45.

20 YEARS AGO

George Bunger, Ozona, sold a special consignment of choice Rambouillet solidmouth ewes Tuesday through Producers Livestock Auction Co., 325 at $41.50 per head, about 300 more at $38.

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Ernie Bliss, Bliss Cattle Co., Newkirk, Okla., bought in the local area 237 choice steers weighing 415 pounds at $69.75 and 220 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 430 at $55.40.

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Jarboe-Lackey Feedlot, Parsons, Kan., bought in that area 180 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 603 pounds at $54.50 delivered.

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Doc Hagan, Yoakum: 350 heifers, 750 lbs., $57; 250 heifers, 750 lbs., $56.

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Far-Tex Feeders, Farwell: 147 Holstein steers, 1075 lbs., $54.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 150 heifers, 950 lbs., $57.

15 YEARS AGO

Owen Smith, Rosebud, sold off wheat to a Colorado feedyard 1000 No. 1 heifers weighing 750 pounds at $61.50.

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Ray Holtzclaw, Bakersfield, Calif., bought in that area 700 good mixed breed steers weighing 750-800 pounds at $60.

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James Hill, Tulia, sold off wheat to a Texas feedlot 220 crossbred steers weighing 825 pounds at $60.50.

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D.W. Luce, Melrose, N.M., sold off wheat to a Texas buyer 150 No. 1 heifers weighing 680 pounds at $57.

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Supreme Feeders, Liberal, Kan.: 494 steers, 1100 lbs., 80% choice, $68.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 90 Holstein steers, 1100 lbs., $59.75.

10 YEARS AGO

The total number of Texas counties approved by USDA for the emergency drouth feed program increased to 43 as of last week with the addition of Edwards, Kinney, Val Verde, Maverick and Runnels counties.

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Direct trade on middle-weight feeder lambs in Texas was basically $70-73.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 75 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 725 pounds at $75.50, also 75 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 725 at $71.

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Bar G Feedyard, Summerfield: 851 steers, 1050-1100 lbs., $72; 1882 heifers, 950-1000 lbs., $71; 107 heifers, 950-1000 lbs., $71.50.

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Seven X Feedyard, Summerfield: 123 steers, 1125 lbs., 65% choice, $72; 91 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $72.

5 YEARS AGO

The Midwest and Cornbelt electronic auctions sold about 660 lambs Monday, weights around 120 pounds and prices in a narrow range of $58.75-59.25. Virginia reported springers at $61, Pennsylvania a few at $65-72.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 345 heifers, 1000 lbs., 50% choice, $78.50; 62 steers, 1150 lbs., 50% choice, $78.50.

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Abilene Cattle Feeders, Abilene: 141 plain mixed steers and heifers, 1115 lbs., $77.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 466 heifers, 1000 lbs., 50% choice, $79; 166 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $79.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 509 heifers, 975-1050 lbs., 60-65% choice, $79; 210 steers, 1100 lbs., 60-65% choice, $79.