45 YEARS AGO

Pat Mitchell of Aspermont, Texas, sold to W.R. Aycock, Lueders, Texas, the following cattle for December 4 delivery: 38 heifer calves weighing 400 pounds at $16.50 cwt.; 28 steer calves weighing 400 at $20 cwt.; and 16 steer yearlings weighing 500 pounds at $19.

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Loyd Brandenburg of Willard, New Mexico, sold 100 steer calves to Guy Powell of Cherokee, Oklahoma, at $21 cwt., December 7 delivery, through John Wright of Fort Sumner, New Mexico.

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Cecil Meador of Eldorado is reported to have sold 100 two year-old steers at 17 cents a pound to Robert Wheeless of Marfa, who bought them on order for shipment to Cornbelt feeders.

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Dee Graham of Amarillo bought, from Biggs Horn of White Deer, Texas, three loads of Angus steers weighing around 1000 pounds out of feedlots at 20 cents per pound, December 9 delivery.

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Last weekend, Lem Jones of Junction shipped three carloads of mixed lambs on order to Kansas at 17 cents a pound. Tuesday, he shipped another car bought at $16.50 cwt.

40 YEARS AGO

Bob Mayer & Son of Denver are reported to have bought 314 steer yearlings expected to weigh about 700 or a little less at $26 from Kehoe & Hulett of Amarillo for March 1-April 1 delivery.

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Reed Curtis of Amarillo sold 51 crossbred Brahman steers which had been fed 90 days and averaged 846 pounds to Armour & Co., Oklahoma City, at $23.50, delivered this week.

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John Birdwell, Brinkman, Okla., recently sold and delivered 80 mixed calves weighing 380 pounds at $33 straight to Bob Sherrod of McLean, Texas.

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Bob Hurt of San Angelo last week sold and delivered a load of 65-pound whiteface ewe lambs located near Van Horn to Bob Lewis of San Antonio at $24.50 cwt.

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J.T. True of Allenreed, Texas, bought 98 replacement heifer yearlings averaging 661 pounds at $25.50 and received them recently from Kotara & Britten of Groom, Texas.

35 YEARS AGO

Francis Allison, Texline, bought 90 Hereford steer calves weighing 400 pounds at $26 and received them from Bobby Dawson of Wheeless, Okla.

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John G. Goodberry of Follett, Texas, sold 500 choice quality Hereford bred two year-old heifers at $185 per head to the Hammon Estate at Wichita Falls.

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Rosebud Cattle Co., Hayden, N.M., sold 211 plain quality steer yearlings weighing 756 pounds at $18.75 with a 10 percent cut at $16, delivered to California buyers with a straight weighup after a 36-mile haul.

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Louis Gex of Dalhart sold 152 steers weighing 740 pounds, most of them Herefords but including a few Angus, at $21 to a Dalhart buyer.

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Frank Hinkson of Muleshoe, Texas, sold 109 Angus stocker cows weighing 900 at $135 each to a Clovis buyer.

30 YEARS AGO

R.E. Womble, Stinnett, bought 123 black baldface and a few Hereford heifer and steer calves weighing 358 and 365 at $27 and $31 from Charlie Fry, Hereford.

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Randall County Feed Yard, Amarillo, sold 476 steers weighing 1030 pounds, grading 75 percent choice, at $27.75 to a Texas packer.

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Ben Floersheim and his son Donald carry on the tradition of the elder Sol Floersheim, on the Jaritas Ranch east of Springer, N.M., who believed calves should be born at the same time that deer and antelope on the ranch have their young. Thus, April calves were weaned last week; the steers, weighing about 375, have been contracted to Bob Froehlich of Rockford, Ill., for January delivery.

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Cluck Cattle Co., Dimmitt, sold 200 heifers weighing 875, grading 70 percent choice, at $26 to a Tennessee packer.

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J.W. Whitaker, Gruver, sold 500 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steer calves weighing 300-320 pounds at $105 per head to a Gruver buyer.

25 YEARS AGO

Charlie Winters, Clovis, representing Texas Livestock Marketing Assn., Fort Worth, bought and received in the Clovis area 160 No. 1 Okie steer yearlings weighing 700 pounds at $48.50.

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John Womack, Canyon, sold to a Raton buyer 118 No. 1 Okie steer and bull calves weighing 371 pounds at $54.50 delivered.

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Continental Cattle Co., Amarillo and Dodge City, Kan., bought in the Dodge City area 70 Angus steers weighing 575 pounds at $48.

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Nortex Feedlot Co., Dalhart, 150 steers, 1200 lbs., 60% choice, $38.

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Pecos Feed Yard, Pecos: 125 heifers, 725 lbs., good, $41.

20 YEARS AGO

Ardic Investments Inc. of New Mexico sold to Melvin Cook, Enid, Okla., off growing rations at Socorro 400 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 408 pounds at $80.

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Potter Craig, Clovis, bought in the Clovis area 173 No. 1 short yearling heifers and steers weighing 481 and 500 pounds at $62 and $72.

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Buck and Jim Sumners, representing B&J Cattle Co., Dalhart, bought in the Oklahoma Panhandle 62 No. 1 steers weighing 540 pounds at $74, also 160 No. 1 heifers weighing 580 at $61.75.

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Lawson Feedlot, Lubbock: 150 steers, 1100 lbs., 70% choice, $56.25.

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Sugarland Feed Yard, Hereford: 77 heifers, 1000 lbs., $55.

15 YEARS AGO

Ray and Ronnie Montague, Clovis, N.M., bought in Alabama about 400 No. 1 Okie steers weighing near 400 pounds at $70 delivered.

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Chris Britten, Groom, bought in the local area one load of native heifer calves weighing 360 pounds at $60.

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Tommy McGee, Elida, N.M., sold to a New Mexico buyer 170 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 670 at $59 and 145 similar heifers weighing 630 at $54.

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Colorado Beef Producers, Lamar, Colo.: 1099 steers, 1125-1150 lbs., 70% choice, $64.

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T-4 Cattle Co., Montoya, N.M., sold to a Texas packer 26 running age bulls weighing about 1500 pounds at $45.

10 YEARS AGO

Dr. Richard McDonald is the new executive vice president of the Texas Cattle Feeders Assn. He succeeds Charles E. Ball, who retired last week. McDonald has been a TCFA staff member 15 years.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 786 steers, 1125 lbs., 70% choice, $73.

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Bar G Feedyard, Summerfield: 426 heifers, 1000 lbs., 70% choice, $71.50; 253 heifers, 1000 lbs., 60% choice, $71.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 88 steers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $73; 174 steers, 1150 lbs., 55% choice, $72.50.

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Dumas Cattle Feeders, Dumas: 450 steers, 1150 lbs., $73.

5 YEARS AGO

Most of the adult mohair in Texas has been sold, late sales 95 cents to $1. A large percent of the kid hair, probably 65 percent, has also sold.

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Si Watkins, Marlin, sold out of Central Oklahoma to an Austin buyer 88 Brahman cross cow-calf pairs with calves to 250 pounds at $965 per pair; to a Dewey, Okla., buyer 59 Brangus 3-6 year-old cows with 13 calves at $945 per cow; to a Coahoma, Texas buyer 54 Brahman cross 3-6 year-old cows with six calves, the balance heavy bred, weighing 1000 pounds at $895.

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Phil Gjerstad Cattle Co., Dodge City, Kan., sold out of the following Kansas feedyards: Clark County Feedyard, Mineola: 319 steers, 1200 lbs., 55% choice, $72; 316 heifers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $72; Jim Shaw Feedlot, Ashland: 275 steers, 1250 lbs., 55% choice, $72; 47 heifers, 1100 lbs., 55% choice, $72: Winger Feedyard, Johnson: 242 steers, 1235 lbs., 60% choice, $72.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 1025 heifers, 1025 lbs., 60% choice, $71.50; 2065 steers, 1175 lbs., 60% choice, $71.50.