45 YEARS AGO

Larkin Renick of Llano and Jim Mueller of Mason this week bought and shipped to Northern feeders, 400 good and choice steer yearlings weighing 550 to 825 pounds at $15 to $16.50 cwt., depending on weight and condition.

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Coy Holt of Gruver is reported to have sold 200 mixed yearlings weighing over 600 pounds to Corn Belt feeders at 15 cents a pound straight across.

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Creep feeding lambs paid off this year for Frank Bond of Sonora. He recently delivered 92 fat lambs to Armour which had been sorted from 108 head; 60 of them graded "star" and sold at $21 f.o.b. Sonora, and the rest, grading "banner" brought $19.50. They averaged 83 pounds.

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Aubrey Grouskay of Phoenix sold, to Cudahy Packing Company of San Diego, one load of crossbred Brahman steers at $19.

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Leasel and Ted Harris of San Angelo sold about five loads of feeder lambs weighing around 65 pounds at $13.50 cwt.

40 YEARS AGO

Ray Barber of Amarillo bought, on order, 100 heifer calves and 200 steer calves in the Corona, N.M. area at $28 and $30 for October delivery. These are expected to weigh about 400 pounds.

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Edgar Kempson of Dumas, Texas, sold 96 mixed calves for October delivery at $30 straight across, to weigh in Dumas without shrink, to Tom Herbert of Dumas; the calves are expected to weigh 450-475 pounds.

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Harry Cone of Canyon, Texas, bought one load of 504-pound heifer yearlings at $24.50 from F.S. Gilliam, Canyon, and received them this week.

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The Stewart Ranch at Shattuck, Okla., is reported to have sold about 200 choice steer calves for fall delivery at $32, expected to average near 425 pounds.

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Kenneth Cook of Vega, Texas, bought 75 yearling heifers averaging 700 pounds at $24, immediate delivery, from T.O. Pugh of Boise City, Okla.

35 YEARS AGO

Ranchers Feed Yards, Ft. Stockton, Texas, sold and delivered three loads of steers averaging 1000 pounds at $23 f.o.b. the lots to a Louisiana packer.

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Shirley Fox of Amarillo sold 650 Okie type steer yearlings weighing near 700 pounds at $22 to a Phoenix buyer.

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Average cost of feeder steers over 500 pounds at 10 major markets last week was $22.77 compared with $23.38 a year ago.

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Z.A. McCasland of Clovis sold 46 fed heifers weighing 658 pounds at $23.75 to an eastern packer.

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Triplett Feeding Co., Bovina, sold two loads of good and choice fed steers weighing 1200-1225 at $22.50 to Wayne Yocum of Hereford, buying for Wilson & Co., Oklahoma City.

30 YEARS AGO

W.H. Wardlaw, Del Rio, sold 1650 blackface lambs at $22.50 to David Winters, Del Rio, from the Standard Ranch. Pay weight was 70 pounds.

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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought 320 Hereford and Angus mixed calves weighing about 230 pounds at $76 and $86 per head from John Nix and Mac Kehoe, Texline.

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Ray Barr, Amarillo, bought 240 Louisiana heifers weighing about 400 pounds at $25.50 delivered to Moody Farms & Feed Yards, Pampa.

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Gooch Feed Yards, Dalhart, bought 460 Hereford, Angus and black baldface heifers weighing 580 at $26 in the Wellington area.

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Lewis Kinkead, Tucumcari, N.M., sold 900 Holstein steers weighing 625-650 at $22 to a Colorado buyer.

25 YEARS AGO

Bill Mills Jr., Medicine Lodge, Kan., delivered 263 steers weighing 659 pounds at $53 to an out of state buyer.

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Dalhart Feeding Club, Dalhart, bought and received in the Cross Plains area 207 No. 1 Okie bulls weighing 560 pounds at $53.50.

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Castor Farms & Feed Yards, Farwell: 115 heifers weighing 760 lbs., 60% choice, $44.

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Homer Hill, Hart, bought in that area 700 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers with a 700 pound weight stipulation at $50.25 delivered.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 245 steers weighing 1050 lbs., mostly choice, $47.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver: 261 steers weighing 1050 lbs., 70-75% choice, $47.

20 YEARS AGO

Lazy EH Cattle Feeding Inc., Liberal, Kan., bought for fall delivery in Southwestern Oklahoma 250 No. 1 Okie steers weighing about 700 pounds at $56.

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Rudy Schenkel, Kleberg, sold to a Texas Panhandle feedlot 89 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 500 pounds at $52.50 delivered.

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L.B. Worthan, Hereford, bought in the Clovis area 73 steers weighing 405 at $66.15 and 83 No. 1 heifers weighing 389 at $54; bought in the Tulia area 88 steers weighing 497 at $65.55 and 29 heifers weighing 517 at $45.60.

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Producers Grain Corp. Feed Yards, Bushland: 200 heifers, 800 lbs., 60-70% choice, $49.

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XIT Feedyards, Dalhart: 233 heifers, 925 lbs., 75% choice, $51.

15 YEARS AGO

Half a dozen Midwestern teleauctions sold 2385 lambs in a $56.25-58 range, most $57.50 for springers.

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Klemme Cattle Co., Springfield, Mo., sold to Kansas buyers one load of No. 1 Okie steers and bulls weighing 428 pounds at $71.63, also a load of Holstein steers weighing 710 at $47.53.

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Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 1521 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $66; 529 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $65.50; 151 steers, 1125 lbs., 50% choice, $65.25; 60 steers, 1150 lbs., 40% choice, $65.

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Hughes Land & Livestock, Scott City, Kan.: 366 heifers, 950 lbs., 65-70% choice, $63.75.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford: 98 steers, 950 lbs., $63.50.

10 YEARS AGO

Bob Campbell, Durant and Kemp, Okla., bought in the local area 97 No. 1 exotic and crossbred steers and bulls weighing 431 pounds at $89.26, also 112 No. 1 Okie and crossbred heifers weighing 426 at $75.32 and 82 Okie and crossbred feeder heifers weighing 598 at $67.93.

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Bar G Feedyard, Summerfield: 1098 steers, 1100 lbs., 60-70% choice, $68; 382 steers, same weight and grade, $67.50; 2286 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60-70% choice, $66.50; 141 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $65.50; 95 heifers, 1000 lbs., 50-60% choice, $65.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 1800 steers, 1100 lbs., 65% choice, $67.50.

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National Farms Feedlot, Parsons, Kan.: 303 steers, 1125 lbs., 50% choice, $106 in the beef; 115 heifers, 1025 lbs., 50-60% choice, $104.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Jim Riffel, Stockton, Kan., bought in Central Kansas for July 15-25 delivery five potloads of choice northern steers to weigh 850 pounds at $87.50, also 170 fancy native heifers to weigh 750 at $85.50.

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San Angelo Feed Yards, San Angelo: 120 heifers, 750 lbs., $72.50.

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Clayton Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M.: 300 heifers, 1025 lbs., $76; 79 heifers, 1100 lbs., $75.

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Hitch Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 1200 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $76; 150 heifers, 1075 lbs., 50% choice, $76.

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Choice and prime slaughter lambs on Midwest markets sold for $54-57.