45 YEARS AGO

Shelby Jersig of Clovis bought 100 cows and calves from Raymond Eaves of Lovington at $9.50 cwt., weighed together, October 15 delivery.

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Peach Smith of Stratford, Texas, sold two loads of steer yearlings weighing 784 pounds at $16 to Carl Frank of Gruver, Texas.

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Gene Atkinson of Dalhart sold 75 good quality mixed calves October 10 to John Craig, Limon, Colorado, at $14 and $16.

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Fame and considerable fortune came again to young Big Spring, Texas cattle feeders this week when James Cauble, 18 year-old 4-H Club member, showed his Hereford steer to the grand championship of the American Royal in Kansas City, and Lloyd Robinson of Big Spring showed the reserve grand champion. The steers were both sired by Real Silver Publican, owned by Dorothea Griffin, well-known Hereford breeder at Lawn, Texas.

40 YEARS AGO

M.L. Happel of Amarillo and Walter Hubbard of Oklahoma City bought, on eastern order, 340 plain quality whiteface steers weighing 889 pounds at $22 from Otis Gooding, Hugo, Okla., delivered Oct. 13.

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Leo Forrest of Hereford, Texas, sold, off his ranch at Las Animas, Colo., 70 mixed calves weighing 395 pounds at $30.50 and $33 and delivered them Oct. 19 to Herschel Braley, Las Animas.

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Bob Mundell of Walsh, Colo., bought 100 aged wet cows at $150 per head from Jack Renfro of Hereford, Texas, and received them recently off Renfro's ranch at Kenton, Okla.

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D.W. Clark of Dodge City has recently bought and received about 700 heifer yearlings and 1000 steer yearlings in the Clayton and Mt. Dora, N.M. areas at $24-24.50 for the heifers, weighing about 650 pounds, and $26 for the steers, weighing 700 pounds.

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Foster S. Price of Sterling City last week delivered 41 heifer calves weighing 500 pounds, 26 steer calves weighing 615, and 45 steers weighing 580 pounds to Emmett LeFors of Pampa, Texas at $31 for the heifers and $33 for the steers.

35 YEARS AGO

Frosty Morn Packing Co., Montgomery, Ala., bought and received 65 good and choice fed steers weighing 1002 pounds at $23 from the Diedrichsen feedlots at Dumas, Texas.

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Bill House of Cedar Vale, Kan., was elected president of the American Hereford Assn. at the annual meeting at Kansas City. House succeeds W.P. Adams II, Odebolt, Iowa.

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Ben Keele of Tatum, N.M., sold 116 Angus mixed calves weighing 392 pounds at $26.50 and $28.50 and delivered to Tom Price, Tatum.

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Burguete Ranch, Vaughn, N.M., sold and delivered 3000 mutton lambs averaging about 83 pounds to Edwin Cain of Clovis at $15 for the feeders and $17 for the fats; about 1000 head sorted fat. The lambs were delivered at the ranch.

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O'Brien Cattle Co., Amarillo, sold 325 heifer yearlings weighing 650 at $22 and delivered them to Colorado feeders.

30 YEARS AGO

Wool Growers Central Storage in San Angelo sold 177,000 pounds of wool in a sealed bid sale at the strongest prices reported this season. About 140,000 pounds of fall ewe wool bulked at 50-55 cents per pound and 37,000 pounds of lamb wool at 43-49 5/8 cents. Forte Dupee, Sawyer Co., Boston, was the major buyer.

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C&D Cattle Co., Briscoe, Texas, bought 114 choice Hereford heifer calves weighing 407 at $26 from Pat Huff & Son, Allison, Texas, to go on wheat pasture.

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Texas Beef Producers Feed Yards, Dumas, sold 145 steers weighing 1050 pounds, grading 80 percent choice, at $27 to an Alabama packer.

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J.B. Buske, Friona, bought 198 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 650 at $26 from Austin O'Neil, Roy, N.M., shrunk three percent at the ranch.

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Ernest Langenegger & Sons, Hagerman, N.M., sold 500 steers weighing 1200, grading 70 percent choice, at $26.50 to a New Mexico packer and two loads of similar steers at the same price to an Oklahoma packer.

25 YEARS AGO

The Harriett Bros. ranch, Buffalo, Wyo., sold 6000 whiteface lambs weighing in the low 70s at $32 on the mutton lambs and $34 on the ewe lambs.

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Frank Crenshaw, Melrose, N.M., sold through Travis Killough, Ft. Sumner, to the Dimmitt Feed Yards, Dimmitt, 450 choice Hereford and black baldface steer yearlings weighing about 670 pounds at $52.

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Hartsell T. Ash, Throckmorton, bought and received in that area 58 Angus and black baldface steers calves weighing 465 pounds at $62.

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Billy Chesnut, Dalhart, bought and received from Ernest McBride, Brownwood, 101 No. 1 Okie heifers weighing 415 pounds at $53.

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Boyd Colbert, Clovis, bought and received at Grady, N.M., 200 No. 1 Okie steers weighing 760 pounds at $51 and at Dora, N.M., 100 Hereford steers weighing 750 at $50.

20 YEARS AGO

Cattle and calves on feed in 23 major feeding states Oct. 1 totaled 11.3 million head, 16 percent more than a year ago and 22 percent higher than two years ago but only four percent above last July 1.

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Shelby Jersig, Clovis, sold to a local buyer 150 No. 1 and better heifers weighing 431 pounds at $64.

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B. Raymond Evans, Tulia, Texas, bought in Arkansas and Oklahoma 400 No. 1 steers weighing 450 pounds at $70.

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Joe H. Baker, Amarillo, sold to a Nebraska buyer one load of feeder bulls weighing 1130 pounds at $47.40.

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Harrell Cattle Co., Gonzales, bought in the Texas Gulf Coast area for shipment to California 265 heifers and 246 steers, No. 1 crossbreds weighing 460 and 485 pounds at $62 and $72.

15 YEARS AGO

Cattle on feed Oct.1 in the 13 quarterly reporting states were down four percent from last year but up three percent from the same date in 1981. They totaled 8.47 million head.

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Sauble Ranch, Maxwell, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer about 1490 No. 1 crossbred steers weighing a little over 700 pounds at $58.75.

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Frank Rice, Chico, N.M., sold to an out of state buyer 600 Brahman cross steers weighing 700 pounds at $58.75 and 200 similar heifers weighing 700 at $53.75.

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Loyd Rahlfs, Happy, sold to a Texas buyer 260 mixed breed steers weighing 552 pounds at $60.

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John Edgerton, Nara Visa, N.M., sold to a Texas buyer 57 Angus steers weighing 841 pounds at $57.

10 YEARS AGO

In Texas, feedlot lambs were traded early this week at a full steady $65-65.50, some to $66.

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Bill Ragland, Brenham, bought in that area 480 No. 1 crossbred heifers weighing 475 pounds at $77.85; 210 No. 1½-2 crossbred and Okie heifers weighing 355 at $77.40; 465 similar heifers weighing 444 at $73.80.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 136 heifers, 1050 lbs., 30-40% choice, $71.50.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 590 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $73; 290 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $72.

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Dimmitt Feed Yard, Dimmitt: 258 steers, 1100-1200 lbs., 70% choice, $73; 79 heifers, 980 lbs., 65% choice, $72.

5 YEARS AGO

Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 181 steers, 1200 lbs., 50% choice, $69; 168 heifers, 1025 lbs., 50% choice, $69.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 247 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $69.75; 98 steers, 1250-1300 lbs., 60% choice, $69.50.

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Fleshy slaughter ewes in Texas sold from $23.50 to $36.50, at Midwest markets $20-25.75 and in Pennsylvania $15-35.

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Stiles Cattle Co., Cuero, bought in the local area two loads of No. 1 exotic cross heifers weighing 430 pounds at $86.20; one load of No. 2 half-Brahman feeder heifers weighing 425 at $75.10; one load of Brahman replacement heifers weighing 450 at $88.50; one load of No. 1 halfblood replacement heifers weighing 555 at $84.75; one load of No. 1 exotic cross steers and bulls weighing 440 at $92.25.