45 YEARS AGO

Johnny Hicks of Santa Rosa, New Mexico, last week sold and delivered 135 mixed calves at $14 on the heifers and $18 on steers; Pony Hart of Roswell bought the calves for Danville, Illinois, Producers Livestock Marketing Association, which distributed them as club calves in that area.

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Gerald Farr of Fort Sumner, New Mexico, sold 400 steer yearlings to Wertheimer Cattle Company at $15.90 for delivery the last of this month.

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Tom Bell, manager of Texas Livestock Marketing Association's office at San Antonio, this week bought 600 mixed Hereford calves from Roger Williams of Tivoli, Texas, at $14 and $16 for immediate delivery.

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Charlie Waller of Roswell this week sold a string of straight feeder mutton lambs weighing about 65 pounds to a Kansas buyer at $16 cwt.

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Chester Firrs of Wellington, Texas, is reported to have sold 80 mixed yearlings at $14 and $16 for heifers and steers, respectively; the heifers weighed 660, the steers 700 pounds.

40 YEARS AGO

Graham Stewart, Graham, Texas, recently sold and delivered, off his ranch near Las Vegas, N.M., 100 steer yearlings of his own raising to W.M Cope of Fowler, Kan., at $27 cwt., no cut. They averaged 711 pounds pay weight.

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M.C. Berkshire, Estancia, N.M., sold 1100 mutton lambs and 250 ewe lambs averaging about 72 pounds at $23, delivered Oct. 22 to Louis Wardlaw of Fort Worth and Murphy Bennett of Apline, Texas.

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Albert Laverty, Laverne, Okla., sold 70 mixed calves weighing 460 pounds at $32 straight for delivery this week to W.G. Alexander, also of Laverne.

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G.R. Vaughan of Fort Sumner, N.M., sold 128 mixed calves and delivered them Oct. 24 to Russell Hay of San Angelo at $30 for the heifers, weighing 541, and $32 for the steers weighing 550 pounds.

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M.D. Eagle of Panhandle, Texas, bought 220 mixed calves weighing about 360 pounds at $33 and $35 and received them last week from C.V. Uptergrove, Arlington, Colo.

35 YEARS AGO

Meat production under federal inspection last week was estimated at 512 million pounds, equaling the record tonnage of the preceding week and four percent above the 492 million pounds of a year ago.

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Pete Buske of Friona, Texas, bought 500 plain mixed breed steer yearlings weighing about 700 pounds at $20 from Owen Seamands and John Pitman of Hereford.

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V. Lee Matney, Amarillo, bought 75 heifer and steer calves weighing about 450 pounds at $23 and $25 in the Childress area.

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Ranza Boggess of Friona, Texas, sold one load of fed steers weighing about 1100 at $23 and 55 heifers weighing about 1000 at $22.50 to Texas Meat Co., Dallas.

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L.N. and Ralph Chain of Canton, Okla., sold 336 choice Hereford steer calves weighing 440 pounds at $30 to Eli and Lee Peterson of Truman, Minn., off their ranches in Barber County, Kan.

30 YEARS AGO

Wayne Naugle, Nampa, Idaho cattleman and farmer, was elected president of the American Hereford Assn. at the annual meeting at Kansas City. He has raised registered Herefords since 1951.

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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought 150 good Okie steers weighing 600 pounds at $25 from Cliff Campbell, Wellington.

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Oren Bates, Clayton, N.M., sold 80 Hereford heifer yearlings and 97 steer mates weighing 580 and 637 net at $24 and $26 to Melvin Winger, Johnson City, Kan.

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Jerrel Gann, Guymon, Okla., bought 640 good mixed breed feeder steers weighing about 700 pounds at $26 for delivery near Stratford, Texas.

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Dean Cluck, Gruver, sold a load of 1000 pound steers grading 75 percent choice at $27.25 to an out-of-state packer.

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Texico Feed Lots, Texico, N.M., sold 110 good 700-pound heifers at $25.50 to a New Mexico packer.

25 YEARS AGO

P.H. White Jr., Dyersburg, Tenn., was elected president of the American Hereford Assn. at the organization's 92nd annual meeting in Kansas City. He succeeds Alfred Meeks of Taylor, Neb.

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Homer Hill, Hart, bought from Fred Helmann, Nara Visa, N.M., 360 running age cows weighing 1000 pounds at $30.

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Howard Robertson, Nara Visa, N.M., sold 200 Hereford and black baldface heifers and steers weighing 405 and 444 at $64.50 and $69.50 delivered to a Spearman buyer.

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Moody Farms & Feed Yards, Pampa: 250 heifers, 900 lbs., 70% choice, $40; 86 Holstein steers, 1200 lbs., mostly good, $39.

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James Goodrum, Roswell, bought 1500 straight mutton lambs weighing 80 pounds at $34.50 from Burguete Ranch Co., Vaughn.

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Al Dishman, Uvalde: 62 heifers, 725 lbs., mostly good, $42.

20 YEARS AGO

Silas McCabe Estate, Elida, N.M., sold to a Colorado feedyard 200 Hereford and black baldface heifer and steer yearlings weighing 675 and 750 pounds at $56 and $60.

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Tom Green, Vega, sold to an Amarillo buyer 100 Hereford calves, some weighing 550 pounds at $68.90, the balance weighing 603 at $67.90.

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Floyd Whatley, Nara Visa, N.M., sold to a Colorado buyer 50 aged Hereford cows weighing about 900 pounds at $40.

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John Womack, Canyon, bought in Mississippi 92 No. 1 steer and bull calves weighing 474 pounds at $58.90 delivered.

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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 398 steers, 1075 lbs., 80% choice, $52; 167 heifers, 950-975 lbs., 80% choice, $51; 116 heifers, 925 lbs., 70% choice, $50.75.

15 YEARS AGO

Master Feeders, Hooker, Okla.: 25 heiferettes, 1100 lbs., 40% choice, $53.50.

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Billy Wilton, Fort Sumner, N.M., sold 400 mixed breed steer yearlings 650 pounds at $57.75.

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Glen Briscoe, Tucumcari, sold to a Gruver buyer 59 mostly Hereford heifers weighing 460 pounds at $52.

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Kenneth Coker, Datil, N.M., sold to a Kansas buyer 125 Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 460 and 480 pounds at $55 and $65.

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Bar T Bar Ranch Inc., Caprock, N.M., sold to a Texas feedyard 520 crossbred heifers and mostly steers weighing about 725 and 825 pounds at $51 and $56.

10 YEARS AGO

Iowa direct buying points were paying a base price of $62 for shorn slaughter lambs, wooled lambs $2 under.

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USDA reports 3475 cattle selling direct off Northern California range, all for current delivery, including medium No. 1 steers and heifer mates weighing 350 pounds at $98 and $95; 425-435 pound steers $97-98 and one string 475 pounds at $92; 525-575 pound weights $82-87, mainly $84 and up; heifers 400-425 pounds $87-92, bulk $92, 525-550 pounds $78-81.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 567 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $74; 65 steers, 1100 lbs., 40-50% choice, $73.25.

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Seven X Feedyard, Summerfield: 105 steers, 1050 lbs., 70% choice, $74; 76 heifers, 975 lbs., 60% choice, $73.50.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 504 steers, 1100 lbs., 50% choice, $74; 208 steers, 1125 lbs., 55% choice, $73.50; 85 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $73.50; 69 heifers, 1050 lbs., 55% choice, $73.

5 YEARS AGO

California direct feeder cattle trades as confirmed by USDA include 375 medium and large No. 1 steer yearlings weighing 725-750 pounds at $81-82 and 800-825 pounds at $78-80.

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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 steers and bulls weighing 254 pounds at $108.11, also a load of similar heifers with a few Herefords, weighing 266 at $94.88.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 164 steers, 1175 lbs., 60% choice, $75; 60 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $75.

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Reeves County Feeders, Verhalen: 180 heifers, 1025 lbs., 45% choice, $73.50.

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H&H Feedlot, Roscoe: 55 heifers, 750 lbs., $74.