45 YEARS AGO

Nelson Boothe of Sweetwater, Texas, has sold his lambs to Jimmy Maddox, Maryneal ranchman, at 16 cents per pound. Calvert, Maddox and Allen of Maryneal sold around 1000 lambs to Price Maddox of Sweetwater at $10 per head.

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Ed Brown of Tuscola, Texas, has bought around 400 lambs weighing 66 pounds from Billy Sayles of Lake Abilene at $15.50 to put on feed.

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Bill Frazer of Pampa, Texas, is reported to have bought a short load of mixed calves from Dr. Worl of Pampa at $16 straight across for Oct. 10 delivery.

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Rog Logsdon of Hollis, Oklahoma, is reported to have bought 50 cows and calves at $140 per pair from J.W. Lemons of Palo Pinto, Texas, for September 21 delivery. These were four and five year-old cows with big calves on them.

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Byron Hunter of Amarillo sold 55 heifer calves weighing 435 pounds and delivered them this week to Wallace Locke of Amarillo at 13 cents per pound.

40 YEARS AGO

J.D. Hance of Clovis, N.M., recently bought 1860 crossbred Brahman type steers expected to weigh 650 pounds from the M-L Cattle Co., located on the 4-V Ranch at Las Vegas, for Oct. 25 delivery at $22 cwt.

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Red McFarland of Friona sold 100 Hereford yearling steers at $25 and 100 mixed breed steers at $23.50, all weighing 650-700 pounds, delivered this week.

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George & Gary Simms of Panhandle, Texas, sold 119 plain quality, mixed breed steer yearlings weighing about 800 pounds at $21.90 for Oct. 1-10 delivery to an Amarillo buyer.

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Jack Brown of Hereford, Texas, sold 65 long age Angus steer calves averaging 500 pounds at $34, delivered Oct. 17 to an Amarillo buyer.

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From the Classifieds: For Sale — 53 heifer yearlings bred to good black registered bull: 22 blacks and 31 whitefaces. $200 per head. — John W. Jarrott, Lubbock, Texas

35 YEARS AGO

Philmont Scout Ranch, Cimarron, N.M., sold 250 Hereford mixed calves expected to weigh about 410 pounds at $28 and $30 for Oct. 23 delivery to Fermon Willis of Springer.

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Ike Wiggins of Wagon Mound, N.M., bought 100 heifer and steer calves weighing about 400 pounds at $27.50 and $29.50 from W.C. Littrell of Cimarron, N.M.

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Sterett Hawes, Springer, N.M., has leased winter pasture for 300 cows, some already with calves at side, to Vern Harris of Trinidad, Colo., at $3.50 per month per cow. These cows are being brought down from the Leadville, Colo. area.

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Leonard Zielke of Amarillo bought a string of 725 choice Hereford steer yearlings, all one brand of cattle at $24.25 for Oct. 1 delivery in the Amarillo area. They are to weigh 725 pounds.

30 YEARS AGO

Faced by the first fever tick outbreak since the early 1930s, South Texas cattlemen are busy cleaning out idle dipping vats that few ranchmen under 45 can even remember seeing used. Special state and federal inspector forces are busy inspecting all the cattle they can reach in Dimmitt and adjoining counties.

Not a single case of fever has been found in an animal in the affected area, though ticks have been discovered on three premises in Dimmitt County.

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Roy Wood, Farley, N.M., sold 250 Hereford steers weighing about 630 pounds at $26 to Dimmitt Feed Yards, Dimmitt, Texas.

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Tulia Feed Yards, Tulia, sold 140 steers weighing 1025, grading 70 percent choice, at $27, and 60 good and choice 776 pound heifers at $26.25 to Texas packers.

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Jim Hickam of Springer, N.M., and Ray Shollenbarger of Albuquerque sold 1500 No. 2 Okie steers expected to weigh 600 at 425.50 for Oct. 2 and 8 delivery to Dick Walden, who bought them for Farmers Investment Co., Tucson, Ariz. These have been summered on the John Mitchell ranch at Springer.

25 YEARS AGO

Bar 2 Ranch, Encino, N.M., sold to an Oklahoma buyer 700 native Hereford steers weighing 745-785 pounds at $50.

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Charlie Winters, Clovis, representing Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Ft. Worth, bought and received in the Raton, N.M. area 300 No.1 Okie and better steers weighing about 725 pounds at $48.

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Deaf Smith Feedyards, Hereford, sold 800 steers weighing 1075 lbs., 80% choice, $39.25-39.50.

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Cactus Feeders, Dumas, sold 103 steers weighing 1100-1125 lbs., 70% choice, $37.50.

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Tulia Feedlot, Tulia, sold 270 steers weighing 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $38.15.

20 YEARS AGO

W.E. Shott, Silverton, bought in South Texas 190 No. 1 Brahman cross steers weighing 420 pounds at $70.

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Bar T Bar Ranch, Flagstaff, Ariz., sold to a Nebraska buyer 275 choice Hereford bred heifers, 17 months old, at $400 per head.

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LaMunyon & Bryant Cattle Co., Laverne, Okla., sold to an Iowa buyer 155 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing 805 pounds at $60.50.

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Furr Ranch, Jayton, sold to an Amarillo buyer 275 Angus, Brangus and a few Hereford heifers and steers weighing about 500 and 525 pounds at $57.50 and $67.50.

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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought in the Roll, Okla. area 200 No. 1 steers weighing 625 pounds at $61.50.

15 YEARS AGO

Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort Worth, bought in Central Texas 154 good three-way cross steers weighing 683 pounds at $59.

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Hartsell T. Ash, Throckmorton, bought in the Spur, Texas area 300 heifer and steer calves, about 85 percent black baldfaces and the balance Simmental crosses, weighing 430 and 460 pounds at $53 and $64.

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Texas feedlots were selling fed lambs mostly at a weak $50-51. Wichita, Kan. had a $48 posted price on shorn lambs.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 57 steers, 1100 lbs., 65-70% choice, $59; 56 steers, 1150 lbs., 40% choice, $58.

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Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 74 heifers, 950 lbs., 50% choice, $57.25.

10 YEARS AGO

Skip Godwin Cattle Co., Athens-Malakoff, sold on a delivered basis to a Kansas buyer one load of No. 1 Okie steers and bulls weighing 510 pounds at $89.37.

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Si Watkins, Fort Worth, sold out of the Shawnee, Okla. area to a Llano, Texas buyer 100 Brangus and Angus good age cows weighing 1000 pounds, pregnancy tested to calve this fall, at $695 per head.

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3K Cattle Feeders, Hereford: 80 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $67.50.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 162 heifers, 1000 lbs., 65% choice, $67.50.

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Seven X Feedyard, Summerfield: 43 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $67; 82 heifers, 975 lbs., 30% choice, $66.

5 YEARS AGO

Vann-Roach Cattle Co., Fort Worth, bought in Western Oklahoma two loads of No. 1 Okie and crossbred steers weighing 750-775 pounds at $85.

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Recent stock ewe sales included yearling whitefaces in Texas at $65 per head, yearlings to three year-olds in Texas at $51-56 and in Billings running age ewes $45-75.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 4000 steers and heifers, $73.50.

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Clayton Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M.: 293 heifers, 1000 lbs., $72.50.

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Lykes Brothers Feed Yards, Edroy: 130 heifers, 1000 lbs., $71.50-76 steers, 975 lbs., $71.50.