45 YEARS AGO

Vestal Askew of Sonora this week bought 1200 whiteface lambs from Edwin and Wesley Sawyer, also of Sonora, at $18 for the fat end grading good or better and weighing 72 pounds, and $13 for the feeders.

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Fontayne Elmore of Clarendon, Texas, sold three loads of plain quality young cows with calves to Jess Pendergast of Hillis, Oklahoma, at $84 per pair; these were delivered this week.

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Allan Dawson of Amarillo has bought and received 500 steer yearlings from Archer Brothers of Spearman, Texas, at 15 cents a pound, June 27 and June 30 delivery.

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Grover Swift of Miles City, Montana, is reported to have bought and received 100 registered Hereford cows and calves from W.H. Latham and Son of Dalhart at $200 a pair.

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H.G. Bedford of Midland recently sold 270 cows and calves to Montana buyers at prices "too cheap to report." He said the ranch from which the cows were shipped has received less than half an inch of rain this year.

40 YEARS AGO

Mrs. Ashby McMullan of Ozona has bought, through Martin Harvick there, about 800 whiteface ewe lambs from Seahorn & Hicks and 300 from Jim Ad Harvick, all of Ozona, for Aug. 1 delivery, at $23 cwt.

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Sam Kotara of Groom bought 80 mixed calves expected to weigh around 475 pounds at $28 and $30 for Oct. 20 delivery in the Quitaque, Texas area.

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Jim and Bob Mecaskey of Panhandle, Texas, sold 370 steers expected to weigh 850 to 900 pounds at $25 for Sept. 15 delivery to a Panhandle buyer.

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Lee Lowder of Allen, Kan., is reported to have sold about 400 heifer yearlings for September delivery at $24.50, expected to weigh 650-700 pounds.

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Elmer Musel of Burdett, Kan., sold one load of fed heifers weighing 850 pounds at $25.10 and delivered them last week to an Arkansas City packer.

35 YEARS AGO

Bob Mecaskey of Panhandle sold and 50 Angus steer yearlings weighing about 600 pounds at $25 to an Amarillo buyer.

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Red meat production last week was estimated at 451 million pounds, or slightly below that of the week before but 11 percent above the same week last year, says the USDA.

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Oldtimers in the Texas wool business say there's less unsold wool in growers' hands now than they've seen before at this time of the year. A well informed dealer says he thinks there's less than a million pounds left for sale.

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J.D. Hance of Clovis sold 82 fed heifers, mixed good and choice, at $22 to Peyton Packing Co., El Paso.

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Fat spring lambs have begun arriving at Ogden, Utah, from the Idaho ranges and best ones were selling at $22.50-22.70.

30 YEARS AGO

Bud Brown, Des Moines, N.M., sold 220 No. 1 Okie steers at $26.20 to a Clayton, N.M. buyer, expected weight 650.

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E.D. Webster & Sons, San Angelo, sold 350 Rambouillet yearling ewes weighing around 80-85 pounds at $21 per head to a Sterling City buyer.

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Bob Daves, Clayton, N.M., sold 97 Hereford cows and calves at $210 to a Dodge City, Kan. buyer. The cows were fours to sevens weighing about 950, with calves from babies to 210 pounds.

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Grady Dodd, Friona, sold 118 steers out of Dimmitt Feed Yard, fed 164 days and weighing 1037, grading 90 percent choice, at $27 to Texas Meat Packers, Dallas.

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Homer Hill & Sons, Hart, Texas, sold 80 fed steers weighing 1075, grading 75 percent choice, at $27 to Florida buyers.

25 YEARS AGO

Cecil McCoury, Lampasas, sold 1500 oldcrop mutton feeder lambs weighing 99½ pounds at $33 to a South Dakota buyer.

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Jerry Turner, Boise City, Okla., sold to Al Moore, Garden City, Kan., 102 No. 1-2 Okie steers weighing 700 pounds at $51 delivered.

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Sooner Beef Producers, Guymon, Okla.: 405 steers weighing 1050-1100 lbs., 65-70% choice, $47.

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Heaton Cattle Co., Pampa: 40 steers weighing 1040 lbs., 75% choice, $47.

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Big Tex Custom Cattle Feeders, Hereford: 550 steers weighing 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $46.50.

20 YEARS AGO

Buck and Jim Sumners, representing B&J Cattle Co., Dalhart, bought in the Oklahoma Panhandle 365 No. 1 and 2 Okie steers weighing 325 pounds at $68.50.

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Bill Ragland, Brenham, bought in the local area 165 No. 2 crossbred steers calves weighing 285 pounds at $70.10; 235 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing 326 at $68.84; 142 veal type heifers weighing 210 at $61.40; 122 No. 2 feeder heifers weighing 295 at $52.60.

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Miller Feed Yard, Satanta, Kan.: 115 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $50.25; 229 heifers, 900 lbs., 70% choice, $48.50.

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Morales Feed Lots, Devine: 107 heifers, 750 lbs., $53; 150 heifers, 900 lbs., $50.50.

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Cactus Feeders, Cactus: 957 steers, 1000 lbs., 75% choice, $51.

15 YEARS AGO

Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 280 No. 1 steers weighing 725 pounds at $58.

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Wayland Lovorn, Portales, N.M., sold off wheat to a Hereford, Texas feedyard 191 Hereford heifer and steer yearlings weighing 602 pounds straight across at $55 and $60.

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Bud Leonard, representing 66 Packing Co., Clovis, bought in the local area 89 packer cows and nine bulls weighing 1050 pounds at $42.

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Bar G Inc., Sylvester, Ga., sold on a delivered basis to Texas Panhandle buyers one load of No. 1 steer and bull calves weighing 254 pounds at $85.20, also one load of No. 2 steer and bull calves weighing 350 at $64.80 and 93 No. 1 grazing heifers weighing 420 at $61.30.

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Davidson Feed Pens, Pecos: 90 Holstein steers, 1150 lbs., $58.

10 YEARS AGO

Riverton Livestock Auction at Torrington, Wyo. sold 550 head of mixed fat and feeder lambs weighing 98-125 pounds at $51.75-55.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in the Texas Panhandle 140 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 700 pounds at $71, also 300 No. 1-1½ Okie steers weighing 700 at $70.50.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 1100 steers, 1100 lbs., 65-70% choice, $66; 78 heifers, 1100 lbs., 65-70% choice, $64.50.

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Hitch Feeders No. 1, Hooker, Okla.: 350 steers, 1150 lbs., 65% choice, $66.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 66 steers, 1175 lbs., 65% choice, $66; 116 heifers, 1050 lbs., 65% choice, $64; 70 corriente steers, 1250 lbs., $64.

5 YEARS AGO

The first Texas kid mohair sale in several months moved around 70,000 pounds in San Angelo this week. Prices, at $1 per pound for No. 1 mohair, 85 cents for No. 2 and 75 cents for No. 3 hair, were lower than at the last sales months ago.

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Joe Johnson, representing Cherry Cattle Co., Bowling Green, Ky., sold on a delivered basis to Kansas buyers one load of No. 1 mixed color newcrop steer and bull calves, no Herefords, weighing 277 pounds at $116.11, also a load of similar steers and bulls weighing 323 at $112.03 and a similar load with a few Hereford cutting bulls weighing 767 at $78.08.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart: 504 steers, 1125 lbs., 60% choice, $76.

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Veribest Cattle Feeders, Veribest: 396 Mexican crossbred and native crossbred steers, 1025-1225 lbs., $75.