45 YEARS AGO

Emmet LeFors of Pampa, Texas, sold 304 steer yearlings weighing 805 pounds to National Commission Co., St. Joseph, Mo., at $19, Oct. 14 delivery.

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Dick Bell of Childress, Texas, bought 72 mixed calves averaging 467 pounds at $18 and $20 from Bill Holland of Estelline, delivered Oct. 11.

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Otho Drake of San Angelo this week shipped one load of 64-pound mixed lambs to G.W. Nichols of Kansas City at $15.50 cwt.

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George Trimble of Bovina, Texas, bought two loads of feeder bulls at the Oct. 15 Mescalero Indian Sale at $11.75 cwt.; also two loads of cows at $8.85.

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Max Riley of Roswell, N.M., this week bought 2000 mixed feeder lambs from Monte Prieto Ranch Company of Claunch for nearby delivery at $16.75 cwt.

40 YEARS AGO

Archie McFadin and Troy Baker, Uvalde, bought and received this week at Del Rio 1100 fall-shorn Rambouillet mutton lambs weighing about 80 pounds at $16 from Hudspeth River Ranch on Devil's River near Juno. Ken Gale, San Antonio, buying for Swift & Co., took a small fat end at $17.

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Elmer Rijoni of Roy, N.M., is reported to have sold 60 Angus steer yearlings averaging about 700 pounds at $25.50, delivered this week to Kenneth Rossoni of Plains, Kan.

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Jerry Sparlin of Hayden, N.M., sold 273 steers to R.L. Zeigler Inc., El Paso, at 421 for the heavy end, averaging 952 pounds, and $24 for the light end, weighing 881 pounds, delivered last week.

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Moon Mullins of Dalhart bought 75 crossbred Brahman heifer and steer yearlings weighing 588 and 716, respectively, at $18 and $20 and received them recently from Grady Brewster, Dalhart; these were located near Corona, N.M.

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Ben Dechert, Junction, bought and received this week at Del Rio 2000 clipped mutton lambs weighing 70-80 pounds at $16.

35 YEARS AGO

Bill Wallace, Amarillo, bought for Supreme Beef Co., Lubbock, 220 good and choice steers at $23.25 out of the Diedrichsen lots, Dumas, and 43 similar steers weighing 1034 pounds at the same price from Hereford Feedlots.

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Sanderson Wool Commission Co., Sanderson, sold 300,000 pounds of fall wool from 49 to 60½ cents a pound grease, bulk 55 cents; 22,000 pounds of eight months at 57-59 cents; and one 18,000 pound clip of 12 months at 58½ cents.

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Ted Harris, Seneca, N.M., sold 150 two year-old heifers with calves at $175 per pair to Bill Lee, Waco. He sold 150 similar heifers with baby calves at $160 to an Amarillo buyer.

30 YEARS AGO

The Texas National Farmers Organization jolted cattle feeders and grain companies by demanding $2.30 cwt. net to farmers for plains milo, an average increase of about 30 cents.

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Sugarland Feed Yards, Hereford, sold 108 steers weighing 1100 pounds, 75 percent choice, at $27.90.

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Don Driggers and Driggers Land & Cattle Co., Santa Rosa, N.M., sold 300 Hereford heifer calves and 400 similar steer calves weighing 450 and 480 pounds at $30.50 and $34.

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Frank Allen, Clayton, N.M., bought 400 Hereford, Angus and black baldface steers weighing about 650 pounds at $30 from Roy Wood, Farley, N.M.; also 100 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing about 650 pounds at $30 from Jack Padgett, Gladstone, N. M.

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B.H. Kimball, Scott City, Kan., bought 1000 No. 1 Okie steer calves weighing about 400 pounds at $32 from Key Investment Co., Athens, Texas.

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Ford Cox, Eric, Okla., and Freddie Jergenson, Darrouzett, bought from Trostle Bros., Shamrock, 155 Hereford, Angus and black baldface heifers weighing 525 pounds at $25.75 and 35 crossbred Brahman heifers weighing 650 pounds at $24.

25 YEARS AGO

Babbitt Ranches, Flagstaff, Ariz., sold to out of state buyers 2000 Hereford steers weighing about 700 pounds at $30 and 1150 similar heifers weighing about 625 at $25.

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O. and L. Lockmiller, Clovis, sold to a local buyer 201 good Okie steers weighing 665 pounds at $29.25 delivered.

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The Gillespie Ranch at Springer, N.M., delivered their choice Hereford yearling cattle. The steers averaged 750 pounds and brought $30; the heifer mates brought $28.

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Joe Rountree, Wellington, bought out of the Shamrock area 67 No. 2 Okie steers weighing 570 pounds at $26.

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Billy Chesnut, Dalhart, bought out of the Brownwood area 61 Hereford and black baldface heifers weighing 353 pounds at $26.50.

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Ralph Britten, Groom, bought in the Cheyenne, Okla. area one load of Okie steers weighing 500 pounds at $130 per head.

20 YEARS AGO

The stockmen in attendance at a multi-sponsored ranch management conference at Vernon heard two Extension Service specialists describe computers as an increasingly essential element in successful agricultural production.

Only a few years ago most stockmen would have ridden a wide path around anyone who predicted that computers would replace pencil stubs as basic farm and ranch equipment.

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In the Isa Cattle Co.'s fall Beefmaster sale at Producers Auction at San Angelo, 110 coming two year-old bulls averaged $1944; another 44 sold at private treaty after the auction.

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Joe Gilliland, Dexter, Kan., sold to a New Mexico buyer 100 black baldface heifers bred to calve at $675.

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Clavel Bros., Roy, N.M., sold to a New Mexico buyer 70 good Hereford heifers weighing 710 pounds at $75.

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Klemme Cattle Co., Springfield, Mo., sold on a delivered basis to Western Kansas buyers 120 toppy No. 1 steers weighing 330 pounds at $91, also 142 heifer mates weighing 318 at $77.40.

15 YEARS AGO

Juan Saenz, Monterrey, Mexico, bought the top-selling bull in the Isa Cattle Co. fall sale at Producers Livestock Auction.

Saenz paid $5100 for the bull, one of 138 mature offerings averaging $1901 and 52 yearling bulls averaging $1747.

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The National Electronic Lamb Auction sold a load in Perry and Porum, Okla. at $64.25 shorn, $63.25 wooled, and a load in Iowa at $66.25 and $65.25. A Virginia slaughter lamb sale ran counter to the general trend by being $2.25 lower on two loads, choice and prime slaughter lambs $60.50, choice $58.25, feeders $62.50.

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Running N Cattle Co., Kenna, N.M., sold to a Hereford area buyer 3000 No. 1 steers weighing about 700 pounds at $64.

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Mansfield Cattle Co., Vega, sold to an Amarillo buyer 250 Hereford and black baldface steers weighing 535 pounds at $68.50, also 100 heifer mates weighing 440 at $58.50.

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Ty Jones Cattle Co., Canyon, bought in Northeastern New Mexico 500 No. 1 steers weighing 700 pounds at $63; in the Texas Panhandle 250 No. 1 heifers with end of crossbreds weighing 650 at $57, also 125 No. 1 heifers weighing 735-750 at $56.50.

10 YEARS AGO

The reopening of exports to Mexico has had an erratic effect on the slaughter ewe market. In Fredericksburg, the better slaughter ewes carrying some flesh were up about $5 at $25.30. In San Angelo, however, they were steady at best, most of the weighing ewes in a $20-23 range, practical top about $25, culls mostly $15-18.

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Bill Porter, Bowling Green, Ky., sold on a delivered basis to Texas Panhandle buyers one load of No. 1½ steers and bulls weighing 265 pounds at $106; to an Oklahoma buyer one load of No. 1½ steers and bulls weighing 350 at $90, to a Missouri buyer a load of similar steers and bulls weighing 450 at $79.

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XIT Feeders, Dalhart: 1384 steers, 1100-1125 lbs., 60-65% choice, $73.

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Hill Feed Yard, Hart: 625 steers, 1150 lbs., 60% choice, $73; 119 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $73.

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Cattle Town Inc., Hereford: 660 steers, 1125-1150 lbs., 65-70% choice, $72.

5 YEARS AGO

Miller Feedyard, Satanta, Kan.: 750 steers, 1300 lbs., 60% choice, $65; 650 heifers, 1100 lbs., 60% choice, $65.

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Clayton Cattle Feeders, Clayton, N.M: 304 heifers, 1025 lbs., $65.

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Walter Lasley & Sons, Stratford: 160 heifers, 1100 lbs., 60-70% choice, $65.

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PACO Feed Yard, Friona: 65 heifers, 1050 lbs., 60% choice, $65.

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DGC Feeders Inc., Gruver: 464 steers, 1250 lbs., 50-60% choice, $65; 660 heifers, 1025-1150 lbs., 50-60% choice, $65.