45 YEARS AGO

Roy Henderson of Ozona this week sold 356 young cows with calves to Owen Brothers of San Saba at $160 a pair. The cows range in age from two to four years and the calves weigh from 250 to 375 pounds. The cattle delivered Tuesday from a ranch near Brownwood, where Henderson had them on pasture.

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Earl Bailey of Sterling City this week sold 155 mixed calves to Hays & Jackson of San Angelo at 18 cents a pound straight across. The calves weighed 353 pounds on delivery this week.

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Lem Jones of Junction this week contracted 700 mixed lambs in the Uvalde area for September delivery at 16 cents a pound.

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Mid-West Feed Yards in San Angelo this week bought several strings of fat lambs for shipment to Wilson and Company, Oklahoma City, at $18 to $18.50.

40 YEARS AGO

Louis Wardlaw or Fort Worth (Shirley Commission Co.) continued to be one of the most active buyers of Texas lambs during the past week. Among his purchases were 3000 whiteface mutton lambs at $21 from Ira Deaton & Sons, Sanderson, and a couple of loads from Dick Henderson of Ozona.

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Ham Wilbanks of Hereford sold 200 cows and calves and delivered them recently to an out-of-state buyer at $280 per pair; these cows weighed about 1000 pounds and the calves near 300 pounds. He also sold two loads of cows and calves at $235 to Frank Packard of Tulia, delivered last week.

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Leroy Hughes and Lloyd Williamson of Dalhart sold 250 yearling heifers expected to weigh near 700 pounds at $24.50 for Sept. 1-15 delivery to Dewitt Dulaney and Rue Wharton of Dalhart.

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Bob Hurt of San Angelo bought 1500 whiteface mutton lambs from Hutto Bros., Carta Valley, for delivery this week in Sonora at $21.

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Bob Mapes is reported to have sold, off his ranch near Clayton, N.M., 450 steer yearlings expected to weigh 650-675 pounds at $25.50 for mid-October delivery.

35 YEARS AGO

Range conditions in Colorado are the poorest since 1939, the USDA reports. The Aug. 1 condition was rated at 66 percent, the same as a month earlier but 18 points below a year earlier.

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Dean Burger of Groom sold 200 steer yearlings weighing about 750 pounds at $23.50 to Foster Pickett, Amarillo.

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M&G Feedlots, Denver, sold 290 heifers weighing 1025-1050 pounds at $23.75; these have been on feed since December.

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Tom Boyd of Amarillo and Dan Guseman of Hereford sold 90 heifer yearlings weighing about 675 pounds at $22.90 to Gilbert Childers of Dalhart.

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John Birdwell, Brinkman, Okla., sold 300 mixed calves expected to weigh about 450 pounds at $27 straight for fall delivery to a local buyer.

30 YEARS AGO

Ed Castleberry, Romero, Texas, sold 700 Hereford 2-5 year-old cows with calves at side at $300 per pair to Kelly Perschbacher, Hayden, N.M.

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Louis Gex, Dalhart, sold 95 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 693 at $27 to Wilbur Gibson, Hereford.

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Parker Cattle Co., Wayside, Texas, sold 135 steers weighing 1075 at $44.25 hot weight to a Fort Worth packer.

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Joe (Putt) White, Santa Rosa, N.M., sold 1200 good Okie steers weighing about 600 pounds at $26 to a Texas buyer.

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Hitch Ranch Co. Feedyards, Guymon, Okla., sold 279 steers weighing 1025, grading 70 percent choice, at $27.50 to a Kansas packer.

25 YEARS AGO

Dial soap operations at Aurora, Ill., were reduced by one-third early this month. A critical shortage of tallow caused by the beef price ceiling compounded by tallow exports is given as the reason.

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Joe Torres, Eagle Nest, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer a load of Hereford steer calves weighing about 400 at $70.

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Boyd Colbert, Clovis, bought and delivered in the Clovis area 700 Okie heifers weighing 722 at $52.50.

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Dan Hardisty, Clovis, bought from Ty Powell, Plains, 50 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 687 at $59.50 delivered.

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Beef Cattle Co., Wheeler: 177 steers, 1050 lbs., $55; 118 heifers, 670 lbs., 70% good, $55.

20 YEARS AGO

Ralph Wood, Farley, N.M., sold to Powder Coffman, Dalhart, 284 Hereford and black baldface heifers to weigh 650 pounds at $55 for Oct.27 delivery.

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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought in the Crawford, Okla. area 300 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 700 pounds at $60.

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Hartsell T. Ash, Throckmorton, bought in the Albany, Texas area 121 choice Hereford steers weighing 615 pounds at $64.

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Dalhart Feeding Club, Dalhart, bought in Mississippi 100 Okie heifers weighing 540 pounds at $53.60 delivered to Dalhart.

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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 451 steers, 1100 lbs., 70-75% choice, $52; 299 heifers, 925 lbs., 70-75% choice, $50.

15 YEARS AGO

Godwin & Nix, Athens-Malakoff, sold on a delivered basis to Arizona buyers 111 smooth No. 2 Brahman cross steers weighing 423 pounds at $72.50, also 85 No. 2 crossbred steers weighing 551 at $65.27 and one load of young crossbred cutting bulls weighing 622 at $58.

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Caprock Industries, Gruver, sold out of their Gruver Feedyard: 150 steers, 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $64.

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Western-Lockney Ltd., Lockney: 780 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $63.50.

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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 470 steers, 1075 lbs., 70% choice, $63.50; 85 heifers, 975 lbs., 70% choice, $60.75.

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USDA quoted a few loads of Colorado spring fed lambs at $53 delivered; Western Nebraska was quoted at $53.50.

10 YEARS AGO

Jim Riffel, Stockton, Kan., sold to Kansas buyers four loads of fancy Gelbvieh cross heifers weighing 1050 pounds, bred to Angus bulls to start calving in September, at $750 per head.

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Skip Godwin Cattle Co., Athens-Malakoff, sold on a delivered basis to a Texas Panhandle buyer one load of No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 450 pounds at $90; to Colorado buyers two loads of exotic and exotic cross heifers weighing 500 at $85.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 376 steers, 1125 lbs., 60% choice, $69; 388 heifers, 975 lbs., 60% choice, $68.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 447 steers, 1125 lbs., 65% choice, $68.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 182 steers, 1075 lbs., 40% choice, $67.50.

5 YEARS AGO

Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in New Mexico 330 choice steer and heifer calves weighing 500 pounds straight across at $90 and $95.

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In West Texas direct trade, feeder lambs were mostly $59-62.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 960 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $77; 480 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $77.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 1271 steers, 1075-1200 lbs., 60% choice, $76.50; 1646 heifers, 950-1050 lbs., 65% choice, $76.50.

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Hereford Feedyard Inc., Hereford: 401 steers, 1175 lbs., 60% choice, $76.50; 232 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $76.50.