March 24, 1960

SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, THUISOA Y, MARCH 24, 1960
Vol. 12 • No. 7
Lambs Quoted
Fully Steady
To Strong
Johnson Yearlin~s
Repracement
Bring $24 For Fall
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Glenn Johnsoo of Dalhart this
week sold around 1300 steer yearllngs, including around 1100 Angus
~nd 200at Herefords,
for Oct.
15 are
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$24 cwt. The
steers
expected to average something over
700 pounds on delivery, and will go
to northern feeders.
Delivery will be made at the
Johnson ranches near Coldwater
and Dalhart.
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Some H•gher
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Fully steady to strong price level:.
were maintained by replacement
cattle in the Southwest this week
week as Chicago and New York
despite a weak to somewhat lower
posted $1 to $2 higher dressed
trend on fat cattle at river market~.
lamb markets. Chicago, incidental·
brought on by increased supplies.
ly, had $24 fat lambs, highest there
Stocker and feeder trade, influencsince last August.
ed by the traditional seasonal deTexas spring lambs sold up to
mand, continued at an active pace
$23 in the country and topped a.t
and in instances moved 50 cents to
$23.50 in Fort Worth where old
$1 higher even where offered in
crop clipped lambs topped at $21.50
relatively large numbers.
and feeders brought S17·19 for
An example was the trade at the
woolskins and $15-18.50 for clipAmarillo market where over 10,000
pers.
cattle, mostly stockers and feeders
Country trading on old crop
off wheat pasture, sold early this
lambs slowed somewhat as supplies
WASHINGTON-Hearings under· week at 50 cents t~ $1 off on
r eached the cleanup stage; traders
way here this week before the some steers, but buyers put this
expect a pickup in movement after
United States Tariff Commission and then some back on, and Tuesshearing, but feeder buyers appear
concerning the threat of lamb and day sales were quoted fully steady
to be arriving at the seasonally
mutton imports to domestic sheep- to 50 cents higher compared with
,pessimistic frame of mind which NEW PRESIDENT of the Tex as & Sout hwest ern Cattle Raisers men are expected to be concluded last week.
usually siezes them in the spring Assn. is Do lph Briscoe of Uvalde, right. He's shown with Dr. late this week or early next week.
Country trade was featured by
when time grows short between R. C. Bus hla nd of the USDA experiment sta tion, Kerr ville, b eLance Sears, representative of increased inquiry on yearlings for
delivery of old crop r eplacements
the Texas Sheep & Goat Raisers fall delivery, indicating optimism
and appearance of new crop fats fore a bra nd exhibit a t the c onve ntion in Austin this week. Assn. at the Washington hearing, for the future. A long string of
on the market.
said testimony from domestic wool steer yearlings sold in the Panhan·
Local quotations found old crop
and lamb interests had been heard die at $24 for October delivery and
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by mid-week but spokesmen for the at least one reputation set of 1200
importers were yet to be heard.
steers received a bid of $2.5 for fal l.
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pelt old crops $20, wooled old crops ·
U. S. sheepmen are asking the Some calves were reported con·
Tariff Commission to lower quotas tracted for fall, notably a set of
$20.50, best springers to $23.
1;'rading on breeding ~es re·
and hike tariffs to ward off im· Angus at $29 straight across on
mams too scant for quotatwns.
ports that vaulted from 3l% million heifers and steers with a weight
Wool sold at strong prices in New pounds, its entire accumulation, at pounds in 1957to 57 million pounds stipulation, but trade on calves ap1
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Mexico and mohair took its biggest $1.08 1! and $1.38 :z to E. G. Wood· last year. Imports, say sheepmen; peared limited by growers unwillT riplett Contracts
upturn of the year in sales involv· ward, San Angelo. Gordon McCann f i g u r e d importantly in holding ingness to accept present offers.
over one million pounds this of the Lometa firm said the ware· average lamb prices last year to Lightweight stockers suitable for
~Job Cage Cattle For ing
week.
house has handled around 1,750,000
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grass continued in strong dema.nd.
L. M. Stephens & Co., Lometa, pounds of mohair this . year and
and a small bunch of 2round 300
Spring-3500 Head
sold around 500,000 pounds of mo- now has only about 250,000 pounds
pounds choice grassers sold up to
Triplett Cattle Co., Amarillo, has hair ~t $1;10 for adult _hai r, $1.40 of its accumulation unsold.
ngus IXe
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$37 in Colorad() while lightweight
Opinion in the trade varies as to
$28
$29
stockers 450 pounds and down in
bought on order from Bob Cage of for k1d hair to Albert Field~. Lam·
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New Mexico and Texas, including
Eagle Pass 1350 steer yearlings at pasas. Sonora Wool & Moha1r sold how much mohair remains avail·
$26.75 and 650 heifer yearli~gs at between 500,000 and 600,000 able for .sale in Texas. A major Ted Waldhauser of Clovis, N. M. some of Mexican origin, changed
$25.50 for Apnl 15-May 1 delivery;
buyer estimates that 2 1 :r to three has contracted around 125 strictly hands at $32 to $34.
these are good. and choice cattle Coake Buys Feeder Steers For million pounds is in the hands of choice mixed Angus calves for AugGood and choice hea~ier stockers
e_xpected to weigh 625·675 at de· A • D I'
At 524 _25 F
Texas ~ealers. Other sources, be- ust through October delivery from and feeder steers sold. m town and
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rom fore th1s week's sales, wer e calcu- R c Vinyard of Ranchvale at $29 · country at $26·29, heifers $24·27.·
hvery.
· Triplett also bought from Cage Ka:1sa s And Colorado Sellers lating _that no more than 1 1 -: to ~aight across for heifers and 50, ~nd cows ~th cal.ves at side
1500 _two-year-old steers expected
Lloyd Cooke of Dodge City, Kan., t~o m1lhon pounds of the Texas steers if the c a 1 v e s· wei~h 425 CO!'tmued to bnng a Wide range of
to we1g~ around 7_50 pounds at $23 bought 180 feeder steers expected chp was u n so 1. d. Most market pounds or under, $28 straight if pnces fr()m $225 to ~00, dependfor A1>nl 8-1!> dehv~ry.
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to weigh around 850 pounds at $ 25 sou~ces now. e s t.• mate the to~l they weigh over 425. Part of the mg on age and qu~1Ity .. Seve~al
from Cecil Armm o~ Sab1nal, for April 15 delivery from Carter spnng ~0~8J r chp at around 11 2 calves will deliver in August, part bunches of Angus paJIS were p~IC:
Triplett bought 250 yearling steers B
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to 12 million pounds, down from in September and the balance in ed up to $300, and some cho1ce
for April 15 delivery at $25.50; tros., aneyt d ~n. .~0h 150 etesi~ earfier estimates that ranged as October
brought this figure in San Angelo.
725
and f~om J. M. Fo~ler, Sab~nal, 100 fr~~s ~~
w~~ldwate; for high as 14 milli?n _pounds. Present This is the third consecutive year
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yearlmgs for April 10 delivery at A .1 1 d 1.
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t •d t 0 do~ward r ~ v 1 s 1 on s are ~ased Waldhauser has bought pastured Two-Yeczr-Oid Heifers, Calves
$24 50
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mamly on lighter fleece we1ghts
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weigh 800 at the same price and th'
delivery from Earl Simmons Lib-. IS year ca.use
Y severe Win r · will put the calves on his irrigated
Owen Bros. Sell Muttons At
eral; and 250 expected to weigh weather which retarded gr?wth.
farms near Clovis.
Sell To Texon At $260 Pair
$17.50 Cwt., May 1 Delivery; near 875 at $24 from Angin & T~e wool season opened 10 Ney.r
H. M. Veale, Breckenridge Texas,
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Booth of Denver, Colo. These are MeXICO as Roswell W~l & Mohair Oklahoma Heifers Bring $25, representing Hidden Valley Cattle
Yearhng Ewes At $19 A Head located near Ogallala, Neb.
so!d 375,000 pol_lnds m ~wo days
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Co., Trinidad, Colo., last week
this week at pnces rangmg from Steer Calves $30 For Apr~l
bought 650-700 two-year-old Here·
Bill and Kelly Owen of San Saba
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to per
53~ pound'
cents bulk
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J . L. Fuqua of Ft. Morgan, co1o., f ord cows a nc1 ca1ves at ojUAIV
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have soId 2800 mutton Iam bs for Carrell Buys _Feeder Steers
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Aboutaround
a dozen
May 1 delivery out of the wool at
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bought 150 heifer yearlings expect· pair from E. H. Sparks of Pueblo,
$17.50 C\\1. to Alvin Neal of San For Lewter At $23.50-24.80
Texas, New Mexico and Eastern ed to weigh 600050 pounds at $25 Colo., through Martin Harvick of
Angelo, who booght the lambs on
Lee Carrell of Dalhart bought
See Wool Sales, Page 12
for April 20 delivery from Cooper Ozona, Texas. These heifers are
northern packer order. A high per· the following cattle on order for
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& Dunn of Ft. Supply, Okla.; also from the Malcolm Stewart herd at
centage of the lambs are expected Lewter Feed Lots, Lubbock: 147 Oklahoma Yearhngs Dehvered 110 steer calves expected to weigh Alamosa, Colo. The tra~e is for
to be fat.
medium quality feeder steers ex· To Missouri Buyer At $28.50
500 at $30 from Hal C~per of Ft. the buyer to ta~e all hetfers that
Owen Bros. also sold around 2500 pected to weigh 760 pounds at
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Supply for the same delivery date. have calves at Side by June 1, reBroughton Br os., Han ~1bal, Mo.,
ceiving 100 at a time with calves
blackface yearling ewes for May $23.50 for May 1·15 delivery from
1 delivery out of. the wool to Ben Roy Mitchell, Stratford; 50 medium ~l_lg~_t .,.aog good d quahty steers Brumley Estate Yearlings Sell at _least 10, day~ old at time ?f
Dechert of Junchon at $19 each. quality steers expected to weigh· weig · m.,. 5 2 poun s gross at $28.· T Ill' • B
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delivery. Its estimated there will
lnOIS uyer t 26 ents be about 650 head with calves from
They have around 8500 whiteface 950 at $24 for delivery this week 150 from H. Met:Veld & Son, El 0
ewe lambs on Central Texas pas- from Carson AJtmiller of Booker, R~no, Okla., dehvere~ Marc.h 17 Louis Woodford of Hereford a total of 703 heifers in the deal.
ture which had not been sold up to Okla.· 191 good quality steers ex- With three percent shrink, weJghed bought, on order for Ed Hollen·. Veale also bought 38 two-year-old
~k of D~on, Dl., 120 steer year· I Hereford bulls in the same herd
mid-week.
pected to weigh 900 at $24.80 for on trucks.
delivery this week from H. L. Me·
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bngs descnlx;d as choice and ex· Iat $390 each.
Drake Buys Old Crop Lambs Cluskey, Dalhart; and 120 medium Medium Heifer yearling$' Sell pected to we1gh near 775 pounds
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$24.40 to go this week from Roy or:
ay e •very t
G. W. Brumley Estate, Hereford. S ' d S0 ld y0 K
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Jack Dra~e of Producers Live- Wharton, Dalhart. ··
A. J. Kemp of Dimmitt, reprea•
napp . 27•
.stock Auction . ~.. Sa_n Angelo,
senting Texas Livestock Marketing Steers Expected To Weigh 750
Pete Knapp, Y.uma, Anz.•. bought
bought and received durmg the last Llano Yearling Heifers Bring Assn., Fort Worth, bought 400 me- 8 •
$ 26 For M
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800 steer. yearl.mgs descrtbed. a5'
few days 2554 old crop lambs at
dium quality heifer yearlings ex- ring
ay e Ivery
good quallty thin cattle we1ghinr
pected to weigh around 700 pounds Jack Dettle of Stratford, Texas around 475 pounds at $27.50 for
Brady, Uvalde and San Angelo. $24 For June 1-15 Delivery
Prices ranged from $17·17.50 for
Bill Martin of San Angelo, rep- at $23 for May 15·25 delivery from ~ld 150 good qualitf steer year- d.elivery late last week in the Ama·
80-90 pound fresh shorn lambs to resenting Texas Livestock Market· Hall Jones of Spearman.
lings expected to weigh near 750 nllo area.
$18.50 for fall shorn 85-95 pound ing Assn., has bought for J une 1 , ·
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pounds at $26 for May 10 delivery
lambs and $19·19.50 for 8().85 pound to 15 delivery 250 heifer yearlings Wh t p .
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off wheat pasture to an Oklahoma Farmer Buys Lambs, $18-18.25
full wool lambs.
in the Llano area at $24 cwt. These
ea ~stu~e teen "'t 27 buyer.
Carroll Fanner & Co., San An·
are expected to weigh around 625 IJoyd Littlefield of Groo~ Tex·
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gelo, bought and received over the
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as, bought 100 stee~s. _descnbed as Feeder He1fers Br1ng $25
weekend 479 No. 1 pelt lamb~
Sam EllioU of Amarillo bou~ht
long age calves wetghml near ~0
Carl Shores (){ Clovis New Mex· weighing 102 pounds at $18 from
70 Angus steer yearlings weighmg Trotter Buys Lambs At $19.25 pou~ff at h $27 for de f very th1s ico this week sold a loa'd of feeder Lester Lockett, Eden, and a load of
658 pounds at $27 for delivery this Buster Trotter of San Angelo L'·TI!ef~
ldw ta:upasture rom J. E. heifers for delivery this week to No. 1 pelt 1 a m b s weighing 91
week . from A. G. Attaberry of bought and received this week 995 1
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Colorado feeders at $25 cwt.
pounds at ~18.25 from J. S. Shel·
Amarillo.
wooled old crop lambs at S19.25.
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Included were 500 weighing 88 Perryton Yearfutgs At $24.50 Feeders Reported . At $26.50
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- - - - Dalhart Heifers $26, April 1 pounds from Bill McWhorter, Eldo- Hawkinson & ~n , of Perryton J. E. Summerauer of Dalhart re· Heifers To Colorado At $25
Phil Brewste.r of Dalha~ S?ld rado, 275 weighing 94 1.2 pounds sold t.wo. lo_ads of good quality po~edly sold 50 steer yearlings Bob Hulett of ~ril!o sold 290
110 long age heifer calves we1g~mg fro_m ~est Barrow, Eola, and 220] s~eers we1ghrng 750 at $24.50, de- ~C'lghmg 755 pounds at $26.50, de- heifer yearlings we1ghmg 600-625
475-500 pounds at $26 for Apnl 1 we1ghmg 90 pounds fom Weldon hvered last week to Mart Wagoner, /livered last week to a Texhoma pounds at $25 for March 28 deliv.
Minzenmayer, Winters.
Perryton.
Okla. bu.yer.
' ery to Colorado feeders.
delivery to a local buyer.
Lamb prices held mostly steady
to strong in the Southwest this
Texas Sheepmen
In Washington
Fighting Imports
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Wool Market Steady To Strong,
IM0 hair• H•g• her At $1 .10-1.40
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Dispersion Sale
PETERSON RANCH
Hairpin
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CROSS RANCH
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Commercial Hereford Breeding Herds
5000 HEAD
Reputation Montana Cows
Selling At Auction
GRANT, MONTANA
(30 miles southwest of Dillon)
THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1960
10 A.M.
2000 of these cows will have calves by sale date; the balance
will calve within 60 days
These are hardy, healthy, one-owner cattle, all bred
to top-quality Here ford bulls - - a gigantic offering of
quality commercial Hereford breeding co'ws!
Every cow in the offering has been vaccinated for Brucellosis.
Ranch and herd are located in a Certified Brucellosis Free Area.
These cattle can go anywhere.
Cattle will be sold in carload lots at auction. Successful bidd.,-s on first carload in each corral have option of buyin9 one
or more ccrloads Cor entire contents of corral) at same price
per head.
Cattle will be driven to Armstead, Montana ( 8 miles from
ranch) if desired. This is a Union Pacific shippin9 point.
Livestock truckers will be on hand on sole day.
All transactions in cash. All prospective buyers unknown to us respectfully requested to furnish proof
of financial responsibility.
Auctioneers: Howard Brown, Woodland) Calif. ; Pat Goggins, Billings, Mont.;
.Norm W arsinske, Billings
For further information and details about this outstanding offering of
Hereford brood cows, call
JOHN CASEY
HArrison 3-4168
Fallon, Nevada
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WESTERN REALTY
ELgin 5-8002
Reno, Nevada
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WEST TEXAS liVESTOCK WEEKLY
March 24, 1960
this bull was <'On signed by Jerrell
Rapp of Estelline. Texas and pur·
chased bv 0. C. Barnhart of Sedan,
:-1. !\I. at' $1400. The reserve champiOn. Saunders B<'st Prince 6 DB.
consign<'d by GC'orge F. and Ora
Saund<'rs of ~lcLean. TC'xas. sold at
S635 to C. H. Kenyon of Clayton.
Elleenmere 48 of Buckles. consign<'d by sale manager Richard M.
Buckles of Stratford. Texas also
C'LA YTON. N l\I.-An average sold at $635 to .J. Palmer of -r:ucumCif S315 was paid for 81 bulls and cari. Lloyd Ert('kso.n of Lovmgton
entered the champton pen of two
$a36 for 44 ~<'males tn the se\'enth bulls which sold at $700 each to
ann.ua_l Malpt Aberde<'n-Angus As· j Roy Conrad of ('Jaudt>, Texas. The
socta~IOn sale here last week. T~e t<'hampion female. from the George
offenng mcluded a substantial 1Saunders herd. ~olcl at S500 to l
number of young cattle whtch were ' Shruler Donel~on of Stratford.
a fa<'tor
ho1dtng as
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pricem average,
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. - - -- - - •vere weather which prevented Phoenix Market Active,
some buyers from attending the I Steady To SO Cents Up
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April ket was very acttve
1958 calf by Rowley Prin<'e DO 44 ; all dasses mostly stt-ady to 50 cents l
hight-r. here last W<'ck at Cornelius
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$1400 In Annual
Malpi Angus Sale
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WEATHER OUTLOOK for mtd-March to mtd-Apnl (U.S. Weather Bureau l, calls for temperatures (map on left) to average seasonal normals o" er most of the nation except for near
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normal along the northern her,
the West Coast states and t h e extreme S out heas t . G rea t et
departures are forecast for the Central and Southern Plains as well as the Ohio Valley.
However, a reaction to spring like weather is <;!xpected during the first half of April, especially over much of the East. Prec ipitation (right map l is expected to exceed normal over the
~out hern two-t h'tr d s o f t h e country east ~ f t h e. C on t'·~en t a I o·tvt'd e wt'th a dd't'
.' ton a I s~~ws
•n the north central areas. Subnormal ramfall ts predtcted west of the Conttnental Otvtde
and along the northern border. In other areas near normal amounts are indicated.
Ch~ice ~ambs
Sl7~8~5~we la~bs
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commercial cows ;oswell
lambs
$19
To Attend
brought $17.50-19, uti 1 it y cows
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mostly $15.50·17.50, canners and Stron9 To $1 H19her
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1ewes $7·9. canners $4·6. ycarltng .
cutters $13-15.50; good whiteface
ROSWELL. N. M. - Choice and muttons $1315. bu~ks $4·5 and $10- , N. M. Cattlemen s
Breckenrid9e, Texas
steer
$27·31, mt>dium S2.4- ! prime lambs sold strong to $1 hi"h- 112·50 per head .. pairs $ 11 ' 20·
I Meet At Albuquerque
27; med1um to good whiteface he1f- 1
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er calves $23-28.50; Brahman cross er, ot er sheep st~ad}. here last , and yearlings $22-24; commcrctal 'l ALBUQUERQUE. N M . - Over
or OV _rnor
feeder and stocker calves mostly week at . Roswell Ltvestock Comm. ' cows $16·18.50, heiferettcs 520·22.·
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523.50-26; good crossbred feeder Co. Recetpts totaled 1956 head: The 150. utility cows 515-17. canners and 2000 catt e en a e e P ted td l><>
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steers 522.50-24.50; good whiteface cattle market .was strong to h1g~er cutters S15 down; heavy bulls S2Q- 1on hand for the 46th an.nual con ·
Farmers Fr1end
steer yearlings $24·26. medium to · on 611 head. hght stockers showtng 21.90, light bulls $18·20; stocker vention of the New Mex1co Cattle
good feeder steers $22·25, plain 1the most advance.
(Any campaign contributions,
1 cows
$15 18, good stocker steer Growers Assn. March 27 28 and
large or small appreciated)
kind $16-19; medium to good feed· ! Good and choice shorn lambs 1 calves $28·33.50, heifer calves $26· 29 predicts w I (Buster)' Driggers
er he i fer s S2Q-23.50; whiteface ' brought $18.50·20.50, choice wooled. 28.50; good heavyweight steer year·
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stocker cows $14·19. slaughter bulls . lambs $20·20.50. wooled feeder' lings $24 26, heifer yearlings S23·j of Santa Rosa, president.
of Jack Cox
$18.50·21.90. feeder bulls $16·18.50 .• lambs $18.50·19.50. shorn feeder 25, low grade calves and yearlings Convention speakers include .!\tur·
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·$18-22. baby calves to $65. pairs ray :\torgan, New Mexico land com
Easier to Pull • • Easier to Load
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missioner; Earl Horrell. Globe, Ari·
Added years of service with the new
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zona, president of the Arizona catmar et most Y tea Y t
. tie growers; Dallas Rierson, s tat~
R&F Cattle Auction
1 Director of Agriculture; P~yor
CLOVIS, N. M.- (USDA)-Stock· Nunn. 4·II Club leader of l?~mmg;
er and feeder cattle bidding open· Dr. Kenneth _ McFarland, topeka,
ed strong to 50 cents higher but Kan., educatiOn~! consultant . for
1closed little changed with the pre· General . :\totors. Fre~
Dressler,
vious week at Ranchers & Farmers Gard~ervtll~. 1'\c:v., pres1dent of th,e
'Buy Direct from Factory at Dealer Prices'
Livestock Auction Co. here last Amencan \ a t ' o n a I Cattlem~n s
FINANCING AVAILABLE
week. Most. of 2504 head ~old con· i Ass~ . ; Gov John Burroughs of !:"C\\
12-ft lon9, tandem wheel, complete $812.72
sisted of medium to tow choice :\texiCO, Stephen H. Hart, !>c!lver.
stockers and feeders. Slaughter . t~x consultant for t~e r-;attonal
14-ft lon9, tandem wheel, complete $889.70
cow·5 sold 5 leady bulls fully steady. LJyestock Tax Co~mltlee; A. P
Center Gate $49.75 • Spare Tire & Wheel $29.50
Wmston, New Mex1co state poltcc
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Ut1ltty and a few commcrc1al chief; Mrs. J . B. Smith, Pawhuska,
Steel top & solid nose, 2 windows $145
cows brought $15.60-19.20, canners Okla. president of the Na!tonal
Hydraulic or Electric Brakes $126
and cutters ~13.50-16.40, cutter to Cow Belles Assn.; Carl Neumann,
All prices f.o.b. factory, tax included
low commerc.tal bulls $19.6(}-22.80; general manager of the :-.lational
good and cho1ce stocker and feeder • Live Sto(.'k and :\teat Board, Chi
Low to 9round - • easy to load.
s~eers $24-27.80. common and me· cago; Homer Danson, president of
d1um around ~17·24, mostly $18 up; the American :\teat Institute, Chi
e Standard floor hei9ht • • 10 inches off 9round.
g<>?d and <'hotce stocker and feeder cago and or. ;\1. E. Ensminger,
e Trailer floor covered with permanent non-slip sealed coverin9:
h~1fers $23·26.30, common and me· chairman of the animal science de
moisture never reaches 2-inch wooden deck.
partmcnt of Washington State Uni
dtUm $16.70-23.
Good and c-hoice stocker stet"r I versity.
e Equipped with Buii-Do9 Hitch, jack and safety tail9ate.
The convention is set at the l:olc
calves $27·31, medium $25.40·27;
Equipped with patented Gray wheel mounts for extra easy ridin9, pullin9.
good and choice heifer calves S25.- ~ Hotel. Entertainment for visiting
50.29.70, medium $24-26; common ladies and members includes a ban
e Re9ular Factory Guarantee.
and medium stocker cows $14.50· 1 quet and dance at the hotel, lunch
eon at the country club and a cow
18.20, pairs $174-230.
1 OS Allen St. P. 0 . Box 1 S88 Phone 3719
boy's dance.
Latest livestock reports straight
J from the ranch country in West Fyle Buys 900 Mexican Steers
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March 24, 1960
Spring's Arrival Is Cheered By
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
Page 4
Southwestern CaHie Feeders
By Russell Drake
on feed during the \\-"'O'St part of
the winter would have lost money
A firm fat cattle market and a at normal feed costs. In the woros
switch to spring-like temperatures of one operator, "They just would
from a mean, bitter winter is cheer· not work" under any conditions.
ing Southwestern cattle feeders.
As heavy feeders, they cost $25-26
Some of them, notably sunshine last fall and sold at $21·23 in Janusplashed California feeders, are ary.
J>appily pocketing profits fatter
A string of under 500 pound
than they had expected while oth·
ers-winter beleaguered feeders in crossbred Brahman calves bought
the Panhandle and New Mexico-- last summer, fed and sold this Janare looking to the improved weath· uary lost $25-30 a head, says Ted
er and markets to recoup losses Waldhauser, Clovis, N. .M. feeder
they suffered earlier in the year. They cost $28-29, went on feed in
A tobogganing fat market many September and sold in January for
operators expected didn't develop. $23-24, some as hig.h as $25, weighAnd, although not everyone got in ing around 700 on heifers, 800 on
the market at exactly the right steers.
time, some fed cattle coming on
" The g a i n s were very bid,"
the market now entered feedlots says WaldhaUHr and cost IS
during the last half of 1959 costing much as 25 to 26 cents per
several dollars per hundred pounds pound. Some lighter cattle he
less than at earlier strong summer handled under more favonble
and fall prices.
circumstances had gains costing
20 to 21 cents, heavier cattle 21
Harsh Weather, Costly Gains
Most feeders' losses were caused to 24 cents. "The cattle consu~
by bad weather which increased ed the same amount of feed but
gain costs. Panhandle cattle, for ex· it took too much to keep 'em
ample, gulped rations at about the going," he says. Cattle with high
usual rate but couldn't blossom in cost gains had their complete
the frigid weather. Some that would feeding period during stormy
have normally attained slaughter weather says Waldhauser. He
weights 30 to 45 days ago are still still has some cattle on feed he
trying to get fat. cattle such as put In the lots last September.
these have a gain cost tag of 24 to
Joe King, Plainview, Texas feed26 cents per pound, compared with er, says some cattle he fed during
average costs most ~erators fix at the worst part of the winter gained THEY PROVIDE SOME CHEER-Cattle on feed, like these snapped at the Sudan lots a
around 22 cents per pound.
just a little over two pounds per couple of weeks ago, are bringing some cheer to their owners now, in contrast to the opAnd a number of cattle that were
day. "These particular cattle should posite not many weeks ago. A r ising fat cattle market has surprised many feedlot operators
have gained 2.25 to 2.50 pounds per
day," says King and the gain cost who were losing money awhile back. Feed costs have climbed too, feeders report.
e DIRECTORY OF INSURED 24
centsofper
pound22compared
with 75,000 cattle ....""'mpared
w1'th 68,000 15 cen ts per poun d or a to...
•~1 of spread ns
· ks over a sh ort term mar
LIVESTOCK HAULERS
a cost
around
cents under
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fed last year.
$45. The next 300 pounds of gain, ket than over the long term.
BOB BLAIR TRANSPORTATION better weather conditions.
Of the California slaughter mar- on a feedlot ration, cost 23 cents
There's a way to make hefty
Off. 2-402 Ha rrison St., Ph. Olt 2-1441
Looking On The Bright Side
ket wihch has been whittled about per pound or $69, making the total profits on light cattle, too, on tt
Amarillo, Toxu
Cattlemen who were expecting two dollars per hundred the past cost of the calf and its gain $184. short-term basis, by aiming at the
new year fat cattle lows to crop month, Moller says: "I expect to The finished animal brought $208.· v e a 1 demand. Fat, around 450
DEUPREE BROWN
up by now have been pleasurably see the market creep back up over 25, returning the owner a profit of pound calves find popular outlet in
Office: 140 Culwell
surprised and express optimism the next 30 days."
$24.25.
California, says Moller, although
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San An9elo, Teras
about cattle prices into the sumAs usual, lightweight feeder cat·
In comparison, says Perkins, a ther-:'s not much dem~nd for ca~tle
mer. "We're looking for a good fat tie are the most popular with Cali- 500 pound feeder steer going di· heav1er than that unt1l they weigJ;
FAY LAWSON
cattle market," says Waldhauser.
Cornia feeders because they gain rectly into the feedlot about four j about 850 pounds. In other words
Office St. An9eluc Hotel
weight faster and cheaper, particu- months ago costing $25.50 per cwt. "There's not much demand for
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Profit margins on cattle being larly light calves. Consider, for ex- or $127 .50 and gaining 350 pounds baby beef," he says.
San An9elo, Teras
marketed now by Sudan, Texas ample, the ty'""cal experience of
. Dav1·dson are " very fa v· Lee Perkins, Valera,
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a cost of 22 cents ~er pound
Moller has some vealers on his
feed er J Im
Texas cattle- at
BILL TAYLOR
"To be real con· man,· he and his partner
a profit of $10.75 w en it sold yards weighing 435 pounds now
Jack Boyd gave
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feeder's money isn't tied up as long weight was 110 pounds at $26.
per ea ·
u •. e a s, forming runty "southern" calves when feeding the heavier cattle The "•in cost only 13.6 cents per
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"We've already had qu1te a few into choice dinner fare for Los
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that lost that .:nuch, so we need this Angelenos. Perkins cites this his- and many operators had rather pound. Total cost of calf and
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good market.
torr on a bunch of Louisiana calves
San An9elo, Toxas
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Says Lubbock feeder Durward which sold last week in California
A. COLE, Jr.
Lewter who has between 20,000 and weighing 850 pounds on a $24.50
TEXAS
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25,000 cattle in his pens now: "My market:
NEW MEXICO • COLORADO
firm conviction is we've all dOJ?.e ·Laid in the lots about 10 months
pretty good on cattle bought Ill ago weighing 250 pounds at $28 per
WESTBROOK • COLE CO•
November an~ December." But of cwt. they cost $70 per head. A
ltanch Lo.n Correspondent
expect,~ Pr?fits on su~h cattle, he calf's first 300 pounds of ~ain on
CONNECTICUT GENERAL LIFE INS. CO.
"/J(f~ all types e"silage, even lo"g cu( grass. says: They re not go!ng to make "green chops" (small grams fed
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DIAL lSSs
SAN ANGPELO, TEXAS
: '1tt.iPJ •I'd -ales ,.,.., for btt<er palatabihly. lost because of earlier h1gh gam
costs." In the present warm weath: ~ at rate of 1500 lbs. pet mm. and over.
er, gains are costing from 21 to 23
cents, average 22 cents per pound,
9th Annual
up about a penny from feeding
costs last fall, says Lewter.
Plainview finisher Joe King
points out: "We're not getting the
prices we would if these cattle
were better finished." King says he
figures fat cattle are bringing 50
cents per pound less now because
stormy weather prevented attain·
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"Before the first of the year and
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• w1th revolutionary V·btlt dtove. No ensilage
• looking too bright," says Sudan
: loountd except that which IS loaded. A minimum :
feeder Davidson. Now, he sar.s:
: ol mov•ng patts. There os • model su•Uble for
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, "The fat cattle market looks hke
: ~ery s1zt oPtrat•on
-~-~§U'WU'.ff§'~: it's a ~ood $2 a hundred stronger
than SlX weeks ago." In the same
period, he points out, feeder cattle
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It def•ts ~nson! : dred. 'We look for the fat market
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to be pretty good into the sum,
mer. We look for it to be steady."
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GARDEN CITY, KANSAS·Box 274·T :
Says Sid E. Moller, manager of
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"I look for a better year this year.
FEMALES SELUNG SINGLY OR AS CONSIGNED
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I didn't earlier, but I do now. As
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of tonight (late last week) all of
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All bulls and females will be graded
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pre-feedlot rations and by the April
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Bull & Female Sale
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Feed your caHie and buy your feed at
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For further information:
JACK COPELAND, Sale Mgr.
Phone 391
22 miles west of Fort Worth Stockyards
Facilities for 7000 cattle and 20,000 sheep
ALEDO FEED LOTS, INC.
and
Ray Smyth Grain Co.
Ray Smyth, Pres. & Owner
ALEDO, TEXAS
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Ranchers & Farmers Livestock Auction Co.
Phone PO 3-4431
Clovis, New Mexico
(All cattle must be in the yards not later than 6 p. m. Sunday April 3)
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEK\. Y
March 24, 1960
FEW AMONG MANY-These crossbred steers, on green irrigated pasture
near Blythe, Calif., are pictured some time ago, prior to entry ·into the
vast Union Feed Yards there. Manager Sid Moller of the yards said this
week the firm has I 0,000 on the "pre-feedlot ration and pasture" and
22,000 in the big yards on feed; the firm fattens up to 75,000 cattle an-
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.1ually for West Coast markets. Feeders in the Southwest and West are
enjoying a b etter fat market than even most optimists predicted a couple
of months ago, after government figures listed feedlots with 20 percent
more cattle on feed. Now, f£ eders have sold many shortfeds on a strong
market in recent days and are buying fleshy replacements.
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In Special Pairs Sale
Dressed Beef SO Cents Higher,
gain-$72.80. Although today's rauon in g red i en t, are "out of
ngus on erence Lamb $1 To $2 Up In N y
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NEW YORK- (USDA) - Steer
weeks ago, these calves will re· pensive b e cause they've been
and cow beef sold 50 cents higher,
Cows and calves sold on an ac·
turn their owner a handsome bought up by farmers who are
veal.and C?lf $1 up and Iamb $1 to tive market Monday in the special
$33.78 per head.
,
feeding a few bead of cattle which
for May
1$2 htgher .m the ~ew .York dressed cow and calf sale at Western Live·
For the he a v y beef market would normally have sold to feed·
1 m~at tradmg early thts week. Pork stock Commission Co. of San An·
"Here's what we try to do with
lots by now except for the bad
COLLEGE STATION, Texas )oms were 50 cents to $1 off, other gclo. Top price paid was $288 ~a
250 pound calf," says Moller. The weather. Hulls are chomp~d, too, :'Paci!"g Progress for. Gr~.ter ~rol· pork stead.y. Trade was generally p~ir fo.r 22 good-age Hereford cow~
calf is fed green chops until he by cattle off wheat wattlng for tt'' wtll be the theme of the stxth slow to fatr, broadest demand for WJth btg calves.
annual American Angus Confer· steer beef and lamb. The volume of In· all, 556 pairs went through
weighs about 600 pounds. Most grass to green up.
calves are on the green chop ration
As many huJls were sold by encc on the Texas A&M campus steer beef and lamb was ncar nor· the ring and averaged $225 a pair·
fo~ about six to eight months. They March 1 as are usually expected to .May 11·13. A talk by J. C. Holbc~t. l malk and ~~al, calf, co~ beef and consignments included a large per:
gam 1.4 to 1.5 pOUJ?dS per day on sell by June 1 in the Plainview cattleman at Bettendorf, Io.wa,. wtll por . supp tes were m crate.
centagc of older cows. Prices ranggreen chops. Then, mto the feedlot area, says Joe King. Over the past ~e the keynote address.. htghh.ght·
Prune steer beef c:~rcasses 600 ed from $165 to $288 per pair.
where a slaug~ter: weight of around 130 days hulls have gone to $18 a mg talks and demonstrations by 21 to ~00 pounds sold at $48.50-52,
Top selling consignment was 22
1~ pounds 1s atmed for. Feedlot ton, up from $12·14.
speakers.
IchOice steer. beef 600 to 700 pounds pairs from H&M Cattle Co. of San
gams average 2.5 to 3 pounds per Grains laid in storage last fall
A feature of the first day's pro- $4~-49, chotec 700 to 900 po~nd Antonio which sold to Rankin Esday and currently arc costing about are accumulating costs too Includ- gram will be a demonstration of 1wetght carcasses $45.50-47.50, prtme tate of Abilene at $288. One of of
22·23 cents per pound, says :\foller. ing freight and storag~ costs grain ultrasonic measurement of the rib I veal 90 to 120 pounds $63-68, choice 27 Angus cows consigned by Bill
Uni?n li_k~s to )ust about double a ' laid away last fall at $1.50-l.S5 car- eye of a Jive .steer. The. mach!ne veal .$54·59.
Williams of Baird sold to J. _L.
calfs \\etght m the feedlot. he ries a price tag now of over $1 70 measures the rtb eye, an mdtcatton j Prtme Jamb 55 pounds do-w-n sold 1Cheek of Sonora at $277.50 a pr;ur;
says. "By doubl~ng his weight we says Ted Waldhauser.
· ' of the meatiness of the live animal; . at $48·52, choice 35 to 55 pound -a_nothcr b~h. of Herefords concan cheapen gam costs by seven
Jim Davidson notes that costs of use of such a machine could have carcasses $46-51, choice 55 to 65 stgncd by Wtlhams sold at $280 to
cents per pound," Moller S3J;1S:
grain in storage have increased ~ tremcn~ous impact on the bee! ' pounds ~eights $45-47, good $42-47. i J. D. Kirven of Waxahachie at $280
A certam b!Jnch of Loutst.ana
tndustry In the next decade. J. R. Pork Joms 8 to 12 pounds sold at 1a.nd 28 An~s cows and calves concattle .now nearmg slaugher wet~ht ~~~iv:~ f~~tSuada~nfc~~o:n~· Stouffer of Cornell University will $43.50-50, heavier 12 to 16 pound 1 stgned by Rtchard Windham oi
at Umon ~o~t $2?. 75 weighing 455 , ales on ~ vear around contract ba: conduct this demonstration.
loins $42.51}-48, Boston butts ~ to a, Ba_ird s.old to Kirven at S275 per
~ounds.Jatd m. Stmlar e:attlc could , si-; for it . grain meal and h 11 a d A live steer evaluation session pounds $32·38 and fresh skmned patr. Ktrven also bought 15 Hereford p~irs consigned by P~ell &
ave been bought two weeks ~go ! althou!!h~ winter feed in~ sco~ts is also scheduled for May 12 under ! hams 12 to 16 pounds $44-48.
for $27.35, Moller notes. They vc climbe·d as high as 24 cent pe direction of Dr. o. D. Butler of
Son .. .Mtdland, at $220 a parr..
been on feed 171 days at a cost of
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buyer, taking 117. pairs. L. L.
21.5 cents p~r .pound of gain. They rutr~~ h~cal~~tsmfo;re s~e;~ ~~fs r:~ Sta~e and Robert ·A. ~n~, %niv:~ Sheep & Goal Ra1sers Plan
adre .now gat~t~g 2.5 pounds per' be ncar a normal 21·22 cents "pret· sity of Georgia.
Directors Meeting Saturday
Ba.ugh of San An tonto bough~ 45
ay m an addttJonal 60 day feeding .
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patrs and Jahew Jameson of Stiver
test, and gain is costing around 22 ty soon.
Panel . dtscus~•ons ~nd qucstt~~The second quarterly dtrectors nought 39 pair, including a load of
cents. "They won"t run up in cost
and-ans\\er penods \~Ill afford vtst· meeting of the Texas Sheep & Goat Herefords at $265 per pair
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any more," says Moll~r. He expects Happy . Shahan of Brackettville, ~~o~~P;~bj~r\~n~tfi'ei~o ~'ifs ::;-c~ 1 Raisers As~n. will be held in
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t~ca~~~~;o;:t~~;~e~~~~Jhi:J ~~~~~~ Texas satd that secti?n of south· , tion. And while the co!Jierence is , BrO\~nwood ~turday, March 26, Osage Moisture Best In Years
per pound. They've been contracted west Texas needs ram now, but sponsored by ~he Amencan Angus president Lucms M. Stephens of
Moisture conditions throughout
for $27 and will weigh about 950 . there was enough moisture to Assn., and ~tll natura~ly .featur.c Lometa announced. Registration th~ Oklahoma. Osage cou.ntry at
pounds.
green up the guajillo brush which ~u~h ma~n~ of spc~tal m.tere~t starts at 12 noon Friday and busi· thts stage are m the best m many
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the Tex~s 1provides good spring feed for I the ;;~:Ca~e c;~c:n~ Th~o~~~~~{ ness sessions at 1:30 p.m Saturday. ~ea~s~~;c~a?ti!dd~r:fo~afnhuf~:t
:le hi;her :~~~0 l~s~~~~ r_re a ~~: ~ ~h~ep and cattle.. He said a l.it~l~ cattl~ ~usiness and all cattlemen . Stephen urged all members and c<_>untry.. said that creeks are run·
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are ·~m soon would Improve posstbth· arc mvtted to attend.
directors to attend to participate in ntt:'g h.tgh and that four-wh~l
concerned about a further prob- ttes that the several thousand
discussions on wool and mohair drtve picku~ h'!ve been. stuck .m
able rise.
~ Iambs he wintered would get fat by Livestock news while it's still marketing Jamb marketing preda· pastures. Wtth JUSt a httle ram,
J news in WT Livestock Weekly.
I tory anim~ls and livestock 'theft.
;~tt!~~eelle~g;.~itn~r:a':g~d have
Cottonseed hulls, a prime cattle I mid-May.
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SALE STARTS 12 NOON
CLOVIS, N. M.
CAnLE SELL IN LOADLOTS
Cattle
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We already have consigned numerous loadlota of good and choice lightweight calves and
yearlings suitable to go on sun:tmer grass.
COWS ... COWS & CALVES ... STOCKER CALVES ... STOCKER & FEEDER YEARLINGS
BUYERS••
We have a good selection
of all kinds of cattle
S ELLERS••
Consign t.o take advantage
of top pr1ces.
Ranchers & Farmers Livestock Auction Co.
KEN WHITE - Phone PO 2-2979
Clovis, N. M.
Phone PO 3-4431
PAUL PRUin • Phone PO l-3633
West Texas LIVESTOCK WEIKL"
March 24, 1960
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SHEARING SUPPLY DEALER Ector Smith, left, fills e q uipment
orders for shearers in several states from his San Angelo offices. At right are shearing heads, old and new; the one on
the left is of a type used early in the century and the other
Shearing Supply Dealer Predicts
Increased Shortage Of Workmen
By Russell Dnke
1Smith. "A well-paid shearer wi~l
SAN ANGELO -The Southwest's wor~ slower, take better care of h1s
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equ1pment and not 'butcher' sheep
b1g~est suppher. of shc~p sh.earmg with the resultant death loss and
eqmpment c;ays mcreasmg diCCI~Ul· expense of doctoring wormies."
ty West Texas _ranch~rs have h~rmg Too, he declares, fewer "double·
shearers to chp their herds. ste"!s cut" fleeces should accompany betfrom the lower wage scale m th1s ter pay. This practice of inept or
st~te.
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hurried shearers mars the value of
Shearers don t want to stay ere staple fleeces and buyers bid less
Cor 25 or 27 cents per head wh~~ than if the length of the fiber had
they can get ?0 cents up nort • been preserved by proper shearing.
says Ector Sm1th, owner of Sheep Shearing expenses are income tax
Shearers Supply here. He. refers to deductible notes Smith
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the exodus of Texas shearmg crews
each year <!bout this time to north·
A~ opponent .or Sm1th ~ advocacy
ern flocks, a journey that coincides of h1g~er _sheanng. pay m1g~t argue
".11th shearing of the Texas spring that hts mterest 1s a self1sh one,
<'lip.
that he would stand to .make more
And. says Smith. who supplies money .from better pa1d sheare~
,05 wholesale dealers and uncount- who. m1ght buy parts and. repair
··d shearing crews in the Western servlt:es ~ore o~ten. That m1ght be
.heep states. unless Texans be· true }f hts busme-ss depe.nded on
·orne more competitive with other shearmg of the Texas chp. How·
western ranchers in b1dding for ~ver, regardl~ss of t_he wage l~v~l
;hearer's services they're going to 1n Texas, a b1g portion. of Sm1th s
have further trouble getting the busmess alread.Y d_ e r 1 v e s from
wool oCC sheep's backs and into shea~ers. operatmg m states where
.varehouses.
pay IS h1gher, many of them Tex·
Smith says he realizes his out· ans of courc;e.
>poken views don't endear him to
Sale of replacement parts is an
Texas sheepmen but he argues that important and profitable portion of
bigger pay to shearers won't in· his business right now, Smith concrease ranchers' costs. In fact, he cedes. In fact, it accounts for most
.;ays, it will effect savings.
of an increase in total sales so far
"You get what you pa} for," says this year when compared with the
~ _;. - -~·same period last year. Over the
past three years his gross sales
have shown an increase of seven to
10 pt>rcent yearly, says Smith.
Call or write at
During the three year period,
following the return of sheep to
drouth recovered T e x a s ranges,
, JR.
JIM
shearers pretty will stocked up on
101
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TA H749
TA 7-2'159
TA 5-5469
original equipment and such pur·
' - - - - - - - - - - - - - - •_chases have slowed recently, says
shearers v.ill use two tension adjustments yearly at $5.25 each.
Back gears and spindles at $2.10
per set and leathers, 90 cents each,
are often called for.
The average life of a drop, the
flexible shaft that connects the cut·
. ling instrument with its source en
power. is one season, says Smith.
He's already sold 4000 gear cogs
for drops this year and expects to
sell another 4000 before the present season ends.
Shearing crews presently clipping
flocks in Texas and northern areas
are working under vastly different
conditions, Smith paused to comment as he co u n t e d out head
springs for a crew going to Menard, Texas that night. The capitan
of a crew in Wyoming who had
ordered parts earlier in the day
said his crew was shearing near
Rawlings where the temperature
was 17 degrees below zero. They
were shearing in a barn, of course.
Under such conditions of extreme
cold, shearers use a "high running"
comb which leaves from 3/8's to a
half inch of protective wool on
is a modern he a d. Ma in d iffe renc es a re in the b lades a nd sheep
sheep. down
In Texas,
shearers
skin
to a stubble
through
combs whic h have b e en adapted to c hang ing wool character- which the pink skin can be seen.
istics as sheep breed s evolved . Modern heads va ry wid ely
Smith expresses a common concern in the Soutltwcst. Fewer and
d epen d .ang on typ«" o f woo1 grown in d iff erent areas.
fewer a p pre 0 t i c e shearers are
Smith. The "normal investment" I couldn't fill it," he frets. During learning the business, trimming the
for a shearer just getting in the the shearing season, Smith explains. ranks of those who will clip future
business is around $250, he says. his orders frequently run ahead of flocks. Mexicans make up the bul.k
That's for the hand machine or his supplies and he has to make of shearers and fewer of thetr
"head" itself plus a supply of cut- direct wire or telephone requests youths are willing to trade city
ters, combs and other parts that to the factory to ship his customers jobs for the hard labor of shear·
can be expected to wear out. A parts. Northern shearing that unex- ing. Smith recalled a ''shearing
shearer will spend from S25 to $50 pectedly began two weeks early clinic" held in Sonora some time
per season for repairs, says Smith . this year caught him short and has back in which about a dozen prosSmith deals not only in shearing aggravated the usual Jog-jam in pective young shearers enrolled.
"heads" and component parts that getting parts to busy crews.
Only two finished the course.
"From now to June I'II be jump"Three years from
individual shearers buy, but also
· now,
" s m1only
'th old
complete shearing machines, both
men WI'II be s hearmg,
preelectric and gas driven He doesn't ing through myself," he sighs. diets. What's going to happen then?
handle other s h e a r i n g supplies counting out pairs of a tiny part "I don't know," says Smith.
such as wool sacks, twine, brand- called a fork yoke. They sell for
ing paint, docking fluid and screw· S4.40 per pair. A few days earlier
Livestock news while it's still
worm smear.
he had 250 pairs on hand but today news in WT Livestock Weekly.
Smith sells several two and three he had only 25, not enough to fill West Texas Livestock W eekly
drop machines each year, bought the order for 38 pairs. Because of
Publ;shod Every Thursday At
mostly by small outfits and ranch· the heavy use they're subjected to, 2601 Sherwood Way
Phone 1127
ers for tagging, and this year de· shearing parts wear out and are
Box 1606 San Angelo. Texas
livered a 12-drop electric machine frequently r e p Ia c e d. A shearer Subsc:riptlon rate $7 por yur; ISc: por c:opy
to a Texas buyer. Last year he sold spends a dime a day just for "tail
STANLEY FRANK. Editor and Publisher
a 10-drop gas job for export to pens." Forks, costing $11 each,
Second Clan Posta 9 • hid .,
Mexico. Smith also sells e1ght or frequently break or wear out. Most
San An9olo, Texas
ten dozen pairs of old-fashioned;================-====--========:;;
hand shears per year. They go to
ranchers for tagging and shearing
eyes and to fitters of show sheep
But sales of heads and replace·
ment parts account Cor the bulk of
his business. Smith handles them
like jewelry. His stock is stored in
two mammoth safes. Why? Smith
P. 0 . Box 445
Phone SH 6-6711
pointed to a box, about the size or
Pony Hart, Artesia
Jack Beilfus, Ch icago, Ill.
a 4·inch brim hat comes in, wrapSH 6-2727
ped for mailing to a Wyoming
LA 3·2204
crew. In it were $2800 of'shearing
Ray White, Roswell
Paul Coffin, Artesia
machine parts.
SH 6-2502
MA 2·1154
"And that wasn't the whole order;
New Mexico Livestock, lac.
ARTESIA, N. M.
Cattle Sales Tuesday - Sheep Thursday
0 CHANCES!
Perry Callie Co.
Salina, Kansas
IN
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LUBBOCK
MARKING &
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CATTLE AUCTION every MONDAY • 10 A. M.
NOTICE! We are d iscontinuing our Frid ay sale.
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ROGSTAD ZACHARY
POrter 3-5135
SHerwood 4-8147
Mailing Addreu: Box 1527
Office Phone: SH 4-1473
S-W Brond MarkinCJ & ShearinCJ Fluid is a combination
of hiCJh quality inCJredients, carefully blended into a n
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Look for this
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seekinCJ quality
ranch supplies
IS EASILY SCOURED OUT OF WOOL
Ask Your Dealer for S-W Brand Products
Southwestern Salt &Supply Co.
"Twenty Yeors Service to the Livestock Industry"
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
Phone 6736
117 Bird St.
P. 0. Box 421
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WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEE KLY
March 24, 1960
might be Yul Brenner in a wig.
Meanwhile, the I ad y, when she
wasn't being courted br some trader, was sharing oonltdenccs and
powder rooms with the rest orf the
Much Excitement To female
help.
All went peacefully, though, unStockyards Routine
til a shipper spotted the new secretary at a coffee counter as someFORT WORTH-A "lady" who one who looked mighty like the gal
turned out to be a man, or at least who gave his wife a hot check. The
a male person, considerably liven- police were summoned. Digging
ed market proceedings here a cou· through their mug files th«:r soon
pie of weeks ago, reports Ted came up with the disconcerting inGouldy in the Weekly Livestock formation that "she" was a he with
Reporter.
a record of hot check violatioM.
One of the market offices hired The s e c r e tar y was quietly and
the female impersonator for secrc· quickly dismissed by her employtarial duties. Quickly, of course, ers.
the office wolves began getting acThe office wolves were gripped
quainted escorting "her'' to cof- with consternation to learn that
fee breaks and in whispered hud- they had been so deceived. Their
dles discussing the new "girl."
dismay was mild compared to that
Obviously not so young, the new of the ladies who remembered the
help went in for heavy make-up powder room conversations.
and a hair-do that suspiciously reHer erstwhile employers found
sembled a wig. One sheep man,
who prefers blondes, thought she some cheer in the fact that though
the secretary had fooled them,
"she" had also duped Fort Worth's
.
finest. Seems that on the occasion
of the rubber check charge the fe.
male impersonator was turned over
to the matron at the jail house. In
the routine inspection for hidden
weapons, loot, etc., the prisoner
was disrobed.
When the matron reached the
point of black lace undies she call·
ed irately to her fellow officers,
~'
"Hey, come get this guy! Don't you
know one of your own when you
~
and is
;_
get him?"
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news in WT Livestock Weekly.
Serving Clovis and trade area
since 1907
Phony 'Female' Adds
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THE CITIZENS BANK
OF CLOVIS
Member F. D. I. C.
300 Main
Clovis, N. M.
Dittman Mitchell
Land & Livestock Auctioneer
All types b reeding c attle
Kansas City 2, Mo.
Box 5621
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MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER a t Texas A &M College will be headq uarters for the sixth
annual American Ang us Conference, May 11-13. Prog ra m fo r t he conference includes 21
speakers, plus demonstr ations of new beef evaluation t echniques which a re expected to become increasingly important to the cattle industry. All cattlemen are invited to attend.
Clovis Range Sales
Active And Higher
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Feedlot Space for Cattle or Sheep
All new faclities • • in center of CJreat feed producin9 area
CLOVIS, N. M.-{USDA)-Range
and feedlot cattle prices were active and higher last week.
JOHNSON'S CUSTOM FEEDLOTS
J. L. Johnson
Ph. WY 5-3479
TULIA, TEXAS
California buyers bought aggres-j '=========~~==~==============-J
sively and most fed steers and heifers in the immediate area of West
Texas and New Mexico have sold
for current to 60 days delivery.
Slaughter prices were 50 cents to
Complete lines
$1 higher on confirmed sales orf
VACCINES, DRUGS, DRENCHES & INSTRUMENTS
383 loads of fed steers and 42 loads
,. ltltAatA ..
of fed heifers. Around 22,600 stock·
WRITE FOR PRIC ES
ers and feeders sold fully 50 cents
higher .
Pfizer Combiotic 1 00 cc $3.00
Forty-three loads of low choice
to average choice 90<H050 pound
fed steers brought $26; 335 loads
of good to low chooce 950-1175
pounds fed steers $24.50-25.75; five
loads of standard to low good 9751060 pounders $23; 42 loads of good
Box 695
Phone EL 5·2247
to average choice 700.825 pound
slaughter heifers brought $25-25.75;
Shipments made d ay order received
three loads of 1117 pound utility
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good and choice 511 11 11 1 11 11 1 1 1 1 11 11 11 1 11 11 11 11 11 1 1 11 1 11 1 1 11 1 1 1 1r;;, j co_:o~~ ·
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700 pound stocker and feeder steers
$25-27.25 and around 5500 same
grades 525-650 pound heifers $2325; about 8000 good and choice 425·
500 pound stocker calves $28-32 for
steers $26·28 for heifers; about
(CeftWM SUNR-IINI Phenothlezlne)
800 pair of good stocker cows and
calves $225-260 per pair; around
22 loads of choice and prime 101·
107 pound No. 1 pelt lambs $19.5020.50, a few around 110-116 pound
Iambs $18.50-19.
We Sell Everything Wholesale
To The Cattleman
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Eudora, Arkansas
COOPER
COOPA·FIN
DRENCH
Capable - Careful - Competent - Complete
lor
SHEEP
GOATS
CATTLE
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Dodge St ockers Sell Lower,
Feds Firm On 'Storm' Market
DODGE CITY, Kan.-A total of
2987 cattle sold here last week at
McKinley-Winter Livestock Comm.
Co., including only 426 fed cattle
on a 'storm" market. Better grade
fed cattle sold 50 cents to $1 higher
on steers, heifers steady. Stocken;
were 50 cents to $1 lower, feedei'S It'• a known fact. the finer the phenothiazine
steady to 50 cents lower.
particle size the greater the wormmg action!
A few fed steers grading low to And it's a proven {act: COOPA-FINE is TWICE
average choice brought $25.50-2.6.· aa fine as other phenothiazine drenches on the
75, a few high choice to $27.75, market! CooPA-FINE particles are super-fine
average good $24.50-25.50; high ••. kiU more worms! Gives you up to TWICE
good and low choice heifers $24.5026, average and high choice to $27, the worming action against MORE KINDS
a few to $27.50, low to average of worms.
good $23.50-24.50, standards $22- /IIW/ SUPER GEL SUSPENSION! New
23.50; a few canner cows $13-14,
cutter and utility $14-17, good COOPA-FINE remains a soft "gel" in storage; no
caking. Just shake pail. COOPA-FINE becomes
cows to $19; bulls $19-21.
Good and choice steer calves and a smooth, free-flowing liquid ready for uae.
light yearlings $28-30, choice to IMPROVED MINERAL FORMULA! New
$32.50, m e d i u m s $26-28, lower COOPA-FINE contains iron, copper and cobait
grades $24-26, plain kind $20-24; for important "pick up". after worming!
good and choice heifer calves $2528; mediums $23-25; good and All lw CoorA-FIHE-tlt. .,lily • .,.,.£;.. ~-­
choice yearling heifers $24.50-26.50, clrerte#J-ot yovr regular dealer, loc/ayl
mediums $22.50-24.50, li~htweights
Valuable FREE Booklet on C OOPA- f iNE •••
to $27.50; good and cho1ce feeder
See Your Dealer or Write Direct!
heifers $24-26.50, mediums $22-24;
good and choice f e e d e r steers
$24.50-27 on yearling types, medifor healthier
ums $24-25.50, lower grades $22-24;
more
Holstein steers $17.50-19.50.
profltablo
Only COOPA-FINEgives yfJu FINE PARTICLE I(ESULTS!
Horse Sales Every Other Tuesday (next sale April 5)
Phone POrter 3-5523
P. 0 . Box 671
No permit necessary for out-of-state cattle or sheep
Vernon Bradley
Bud Williams, Representative
Zack Felton
i j :J.l:
IT'S A PLEASURE TO
[I]L'J[!]
BU'( OR SELL AT
where you find the most modern and efficient
cattle marketing facilities.
Cattle Sales Each Friday
Starting at 11 :30 o. m.
NOW SELLING 3000-3500 HEAD PER WEEK
TEXHOMA LIVESTOCK COMM. CO., Inc.
HUGH FORD, MGR.
Phone 2031
TEXHOMA, OKLAHOMA
Bonded & Operated Under Supervision of U.S. D.A.
Latest livestock reports straight
from the ranch country in West
Texas Livestock Weekly. $7 year.
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ON THE MONTGOMER'f MARKET last week t hese catt1e sold at W . I.
"Red" Bowman's Bowman-Capital Stock Yards. At left are p art of 75 cows
weighing 850-1000 pounds, sold by T. W. Davis of Montgomery t o packers
ar $ 16.50- 18.50. A t right, Bowman (in white coa t I and Bub Evans of Ft.
Davis. Texas look over part of 200 cows sold by t he R. S. McWho rte r Estate. Stocker cows sold at $20-24.50 cwt., most cows and calves a t
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$167.50 to $230 per pair, and heifers at $29.25. Evans has been scouting
the Alabama market for stocker and feeder steers suitable for shipment
a hard winter; these pictures were taken after t he cows had been through
to California feedlots. Cows in the Montgomery area have been through
severa l wee ks of cold , wet weather.
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Isteers $24.50-26, outside for1 three
Supply Lower; Price ~~c;sa~~J~g ~n~~:Jc~u~i-; P~~d
Steady In P anhandle ~~~d ~880sg~ ~d f;~~i~! 1 ~~~'k:
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Montgomery Is Center OF Grov~ring ---~'!!;,~~~--, ,..,._
March 27-29-New Mexico cattle
Growers Assn. annual convenAMARILLO-{USDA)- Confirm· ers . 600-675 poun~s at _$24.5~28
tion, Albuquerque. .
ed sales of about 18,200 stockers Apnl and May_ dehvery, mcludmg
MONTGOMERY, Ala.-You don't Union Stockyards, was e~tablished March 30-Annual Spt:mg Stocker and feeders in direct trading last a 910 hea~ strmg of 600 pounders
see an overwhelming number of in 1917. Last year Bowman convert·
& Feeder Sale, Clovis, N. M.
week showed little price chanrre '~ on he1fers, S28 on steers; sala;
western-looking co\trnunchers in the ed it into an auction ce lter with April 1-Performance Tested Bull from the reeent advance. Hea~y fmedvolvmg ~!round 7ood000 stockechr a_nd
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7 1 ~ acres under roof and a small
Sale Goodwell Okla.
snow in the northern plains reduc- e er hei ers, g
and
o1~e
st.<~te of Alabama, but there's no feedlot operation adjoining the A -1 1 '4-Cha dl' J h
St art ed demand for immediate delivery 600-700 pounders, up to June dehv~
p odn fer· ~ rso~~ ew ld cattle Weather was generally open ery $23·~; 140 head of 600 poundlack of cattle and cattlemen. The regular yards
state has close to two million head
This is not .to say Bowman's auc.l T~faus r uc Ion a e, mggo ' a fe\~ light snow flurrie:; in the ers $~.50 April 1 delivery an~ sevof cattle, and there were 1,291,000 tions monopolize the state's cattle
. s.
.
early part of the week.
eral ~ots at $~ for June delivery;
head of beef-type cattle on the
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Apnl 4-Spectal Stocker Sale,
.
a strmg of chOICe 650 pound feedstate's farms at the beginning of markehn_g mdustry. A reeent. dire<:· Madison County Comm. Co., Madi-~' Area fee~lots are virtually clean- er heifers, fall delivery $23· in the
ed . of chotec _grade cattle; moot oat country of Central Tc~as me·
this year, according to the USDA tory of licensed stoc~a_rds lists 76 son ville, Texas.
census. This was an all-time high. ~~ets, several of which operate April 5--All Breed Registered Bull available offen.ngs need ~ least dium to mostly good 600-675 pound
In 1948 there were an e:;timated dall} ·
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& Female Sale Clovis N M
an~ther 30 day_s on feed. Steady ~locker and feeder heifers for .May
509,000 head of beef cattle in Ala·
It's estimated Alabama has some April 8-Feeder 'calf S;le, ·Mo~il- ~l~~~1t;~erite~~d a~dr
fg:~~ ~i and June delivery $23.50-24.50, a
ton Ark.
heifers
few mostly _good under 600/ounds
bama and the 10-year average is 40,000 cattle C?n feed, about 75 peronly 875,000. Which gives an idea cent o~ them m drylot and the oth.'
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to S25; choice 390·450 poun stockof the growing emphasis on beef ers bemg supplement~d Of! pasture. Apr •I 12-Feeder Calf Sale, Para·
Slaughter steers: 26 loads of er calves $28-30 on heifers, $30 on
Farmers have steadily mcreased
gould, Ark.
ch01ce 105().1150 pounders _$26-26.· steers. including nearly 600 head
cattle in this area
Not the least of ·the cowmen pro· grazi~g cro-'? pr<?duction i!l reeent April 13-Feeder Calf Sale,
30, latter for seven loads m Kan· of 390 pound heifers at $30; about
moting and approving bigger beef years, they ve Jumped yields. on
Imboden, Ark.
sas;_ 36 loads of good, 15-20 percent 100 good 450 pound heifer calves
cattle production and marketing in corn land and at ~e same. time April 14-Feeder Calf Sale, Mari· c~oice, 1100-1150 pounders $25; $26; most good stocker calves $24·
the state is w. I. "Red" Bowman. have Improved quality of their catanna, Ark.
mne loads of good 1050 pounders 25 on heifers, $26-29 on steers; 100
In the 1930s he started out as an tie. Such practices last year e!l- April 1 5--Fe~er Calf Sale
$24.75
.
choice ~50 pound steer calves for
Alabama horse and mule trader. a_bl~ them to sell about $98 milWeldon, Ark.
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Slaughter hetfers· Seven loads of fall delivery at $28
choice 975-1000 pounders $25.~·
Now he owns and operates five lion '~orth of cattle and calves.
leading auctions in the state; last
While. a large share of the calves April 26--Speeial Steer Sale, Alex· 25.50, latter for four loads in Kanyear more than 3oo.ooo cattle went ~own m the ~tate are fattened
andria, La.
sas; two loads or good 925 poundthrough his sale rings. 1\vo of his nght _here, an Important number May 2-3-Annual Caliiornia Ram ers $24.75, a load of good 750
Sale, Wool Show & Sheep Dog
pounders to Mississippi packers
Salina, Kansas
auctions are in Montgomery, and are shipped to fee~ lots ~arther we~
others are at Hurtsboro, Demopolis -to southern Cahforma and Art·
Trials, Sacramento, Calif.
$26; two loads of standard and
SALE EVERY SATURDAY
and Camden. The Montgomery sales zona-and also to the Amarillo May 5-7-Annual All Breed Ram good 650-700 pounders $42 rail
Lonnie Wilson
provide a market for all classes of area. Bowman says a growmg nu!D& Ewe Sale and Wool Show,
basis.
Office Phone T.A. 75563
cattle five days a week· one of ber of Alabama cattlemen are stnvBrownwood, Texas.
Stockers and feeders: For imme·
Res. Phone T.A. 36892
~d~ia~te~t~h~r~ou~g~h~J~u~n~e~d~el~iv~e~ry~~go~od~~~~=~~~~====:=:
these, formerly known as the old ing to get their calves dropped in May 21-C. D. Bruce's Quarter
the fall so as to be ab-le to market
Horse Sale, Cow Palace, Bossier, ;;.
uniform bunches on the higher
City, La.
spring and early summer trade.
-----However important Alabama's Augustine Buys Yearlings For
cattle export business is right now,
.::San c::l/ntonio dff}'ticuftu'taf Cu:.dit Co'tp.
local order b u y e r s believe the Spring To Summer De livery At
REPRESENTATIVE:
HOME OFFICE:
state's own cattle feeding industry $25 In G ruver, Seymour Area s
PHONE CAPITAL 5-~77
W. C. "lill" House
$Z
FEEDS
is destined to absorb the bulk of
PHONE 7192
NATL. lANK OF COMMERCE ILD6.
Augustine Livestock Comm. Co.,
replacements in the ne<ar future.
ROTAN, TEXAS
SAN ANTONIO. TEXAS
Range Cubes • Feeds for
In fact it's predicte~ the Montgom· of Lamar Colo. and Amarillo rehorses • hog s • p:)ultry •
ery area alone Will be able to
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handle 60 percent of the state's cently bought 1500 yearl_mg heifers
dairy • etc.
Res. Phone 6-7548
Office Phone 2-7093
feeder cattle supply within five from Sam Cluck and h1s son and
Rolled Grains
years.
son-in-law of Gruver at $~ cwt
750 will be delivered in April and
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Latest livestock reports straight May, 450 in July and 300 li~ht·
Albuquerque, N. M.
Ph. PO 3 ~~24
from the ranch country in West weights about A~. 1. AugustiJ?e
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also bought 250 heifers from Dand
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CLOVIS, N. M.
McBride, Stratford, for April delivf~;::::;::::;::::;::::;::::::::::::;:;::::=:=:=:~~T~e~xas~~L~Iv~e~s~to~c~k~W~e~e~kl~y~.~$7~~ye~ar~. ery
at $25 and 50 from C. F. Goff
of Griggs, Okla., at $24.50 for April
Bonded Under Packers & Stockyards Act for Your Protection
1-10 delivery. These hciiers, good
Locat e d a t Sant a Fe Railway Stockyard s, at end
and choice Herefords with some
Angus, are expected to weigh 600of South Willia ms St., Albuq uerque
Creo soted Post s & Poles
675 pounds at delivery.
Mail Address:
Augustine also bought 400 choice
All Types Wire
PAUL KI NSELL
4032 Simms Court S. E.
Hereford and Angus steer yearlings
Owner
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M.
from 0. W. Ballerstedt of Seymour
at $~ for June 10-20 delivery.
"13 years at the Twin Mountains"
We deliver anywhere
Robert Nickel
Phone 3546
Night Phone 8597-1
Box 1266 Over Two Million Pounds Of
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
Come
Beef Insp ecte d Fo r Import At
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Far West Points In One W eek
SAN FRANCISCO-(USDA) - A
total of 2,118,051 pounds of imported beef were inspected at far West
WEDNESDAY IF NECESSARY
points of entry during the week
Registered
& Bonded with U. S. Depl of Agriculture
ending March 11. Also 111,265
YUMA, ARIZONA
pounds of boneless mutton, 161,519
pounds of pork; 544,712 pounds of
canned beef and 187,217 pounds of
canned pork. 0 t h e r processed
mea.ts brought the canned import
total to 731,759 pounds.
Gateway to the Yuma & Imperial Valleys, Where Demand
Biggest boneless beef imports
is Excellent for Crossbred and Choice Light Cattle.
came from Australia (1,752,738
pounds); Australia also accounted
Ship to Araby, Arizona • On the main line of the S. P.
l'ull details on our market reported
for all the boneless mutton imEvery :\1orning except Sunday
ports. Mexico contributed 227,141
Now under new management
7:00 a. m. CST- KGNC Amarillo
pounds of boneless beef and 3~1
A. T. Spence Jr.
Pete Knapp, Mgr.
lud I Emma Palon
pounds of beef cuts; }';ew Zealand
Ed J ohn'son ·:· Jay Taylor ·:· J . R. Taylor ·:· M. T. Johnson
AM ~764
su 2·1641
su 2-1641
shipped in 134,921 pounds of bone·
Phone DRak~ 3·7464
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Yuma, Arir.
Yuma, AriL
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·Boston Wool Activity I
Shows Improvement
Unregistered
Bull
Slaughter Cattle Move At High theBOSTON-(USDA)Trading in
wool market here last week
was somewhat improved compared
the previous week. Most of
Prices; Lambs Up Too In Far West with
the improvement
in the turn-
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was
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over of pulled wools and a little
better business in c a r p e t type
wools. Prices were steady with continued interest in domestic n.~ium
fleeces.
Scoured wools turnover was betAn item in the Wall Street Jour- But boosters of meat consumption
ter than the previous week and nal this week is enough to make have assembled a weighty mass of
with. a firmer tone while noils producers of red meat see red. evidence showing lean meat is not
moved more readily' at about un- B!Jrden of the piece is that Trap- guilty of any such damaging effect
changed prices.
plSt monks who are vegetarians and, on the contrary, is generall::
A litUe wool was moving in scat- have b~n fo~nd to have less chol- the p10st healthful food in an~ .
tered areas of the territory states estero~ m thetr. blood than a group body s dtet. An~ of course there
while buyers were taking up ocea- of .th~tr monastic brothers, the Ben- are numerous wttnesses whose agilStockers and Feeders
sional odd lots of 12-months Texas edtctines, who cat meat.
ity belies their four-scorc ·or-mon
California stocker and feeder wool. Activity in the fleece wool . r'ive researchers from the Geor- years who say the fatter the mea
Slaughter Steers
I trade included 85 good and choice states was limited due to another gta Department of Public Health the better they like it.
In Central California five loads ~ 825 pound warmed-up fEeder steers bad snow storm and shearing had made a study of blood cholesterol Consumer studies have repeated!·
of fed steers grading mostly choice at $27; around 1750 mostly good been delayed at least three weeks among members of both monastic shown that the housewife buyin~
and. weig~ing 900 pounds sold fo_r steers weighing 550 to 650 pou~ds in the mid-Western states compar- ~rders and published their findings meat for the family table in the
Apnl delivery at $29. In both Call- at $25 to $25.40; 40 good and chotce ed to previous years.
m the Annals of Internal Medicme. supermarket prefers lean meat .
fornia and Arizona 64 loads of at warmed-up 625 pound heifers at
Mid-week cables from Australia In all tests the meat-eating Bene- She wants it tender, of course, but
least_ 80 percent choice fed steers $26; heifers weighing 5?5 po~nds ~howed _good demand for topmak- dictines showed_ more chlore£teroJ. she do~sn't want t~ buy a c~uuk of
rangmg from 850 to 1200 pounds at $25; 215 good and chotec hetfers mg menno wools as prices tended than the Trapptsts.
1 fat which nobody m the family will
brought S28, 154 loads good and 430 to 650 pounds at $26.50 for upward \l.;th the Continent Japan
Cholesterol, for the information eat. This fact seems ex!remelv ..!if·
choice up to 1300 pound ~te~rs April throug~ July delivery. A set and England dominating buying. ~f those who havE;n't alr~ady heard ficult for meat pr~uc~rs and pr~­
brought $26.50 to $27.50 mcludmg of 80 good mixed 450 pound stock- The Cape markets were firm with tt a thousand times, ts a fatty cessors to accept. JUdgmg by then·
several strings for April and May er calves brought $28 on the steers an upward tendency and increasing substance in the blood which is insistence on trying to force execsdelivery and 32 loads of mostly and $27 on the heifers and another demand under general competition. thought to form deposits on walls sive fat on the public. However, it
choice 900 to 1100 ~unders sold at I set of 200 good t~ mostly choice Private c a b 1 e s indicated prices of a. person'~ artE;ries and cause I does the me~t indu;5try no _good for
$26.~ to $27. In Anzon~ 118 loads feeder steers . scahng: 900 pounds wer~ . advancing in New Zealand. artenosclero~ts which can lead to pre.su~ably tmparttal medt~al men
of htgh standard and mtxed stand- brought ~26 wtth a trim at $25, ~or Activity in Montevideo was very bloo:d ~l~ts and heart attacks.
. t~ mdtct meat as a factor m hear~
ard and good steers netted $22· later dehvery; 400 good and chotec slow as prices held steady and unDietiCians have long accused ant- disease. Promoters of meat con24.50.
750 pound steers moved at $25·25.· changed. The market was quiet in mal fat of contributing to high sumption always dread a switch to
Slaughter Heifers
50_and a st~ing of 1500 steer and Buenos Aires with prices rising but cholesterol levels in human blood. vegetarianism, ~hich could come
- - - from mere faddtshness; ~h~ dreac!
Nine loads of California fed heif· hetfer yearlings and ~wo-year-olds turnover restricted.
ers. 90 percent choice and balance brought S25 to mo:;tly ~26 on st_eers Fleece wools: Graaed _64s avereven more .a mass convtcho~ tha .
me~t c~ntrtbll:tes to heart disease
good, weighing 850 pounds brought anq $24.50 to ~ on the hetfers age to good French combmg fleece
; 19 loads choice heifers, under whtle 2100 medium to mostly good wool sold at $1)0 clean. Country
whtch ts. contmually he~d 1.!~ as a
528
o pounds, brought 526.50.27 ; 54 650 pound steers sold at ~23.90 to buyors w~re paymg mostly around
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loads of mostly good 725 to 1000 $24 for June and July .delt.very.
50 cent~ 1n the grease to growers
ALAMOSA, Colo.- Around 2000 death.
,
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pounders $24.90 26; six loads mostCattle_ from Old ~Iex1co 1ncluded for m~IUm wools.
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mother cows, the entire herd from i 1. Of course there s th~ cyn_Ical
ly good 775 to 900 pound heifers 300 chotce 350 to 49<) pound steer
Terr1toy wools: Bulk fmc ~nd the Malcolm Stewart ~erd at Ala-I Y ew that_ meat con~umpt1~n_ mtght
$23.50-24.50 and, on a carcass basis, c~lvcs at S32, a stnng of 900 me- half-blood good ~rench. combmg mosa, sold at the railroad stock· mcrease m propartwn to tt_s a~eg­
eight loads of choice 775 to 950 dtum and good 300 to 400 pound and .staple wool m ortgmal .bags ~ens here .:\londay on a fairly ac- ed. dang~r. Holders ~f this view
pound heifers netted $44 and one stocker s t e c r s at $27 f.o.b. the sold m Montana for future dehvery live market to buyers from several mtght _pomt out that c1garette conload of choice 950 pound heifers American side for April 10 deliv- at around $1.15 clean del~v~rcd Bos- stat_es.
~umphon hasn't suffe~ed no.hceably
cry.
ton on a _cor~ tes_t. Ortgm~l bag Jtmmy suckla, Cortez auctioneer, m the face ~f overwhelmmg ev1
brought $43.50.
Stocker and feeder cattle direct
Lamb Trade
wool sol~ m \\yonung at estimated handled the ~ale . .:\fajor sales in· dence that ctgarettes cause ll!ng
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clean prices around $1.15 to $1.20 eluded the following·
cancer; that alcohol consumptJon
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201 cows and calves,
good age, t' ncr~a
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lambs wool brought 37 cents to 42 to an Oregon buyer at $224 a pair of 1ts lllJUrJous effects; and that
P~~h rfnge ro~g S 523
25·50 0 24 cents in t~e grease.. Occ~sion~l 195 pairs, good running age to people don't drive automobi.les any
~hous:nd e~i~~d ~ats24and t::3~:s1 sales of nuxed yearlmg clips m a Pueblo, Colo. buyer at $226. •
S~O\~Cr whe'! ~onfronted With. st:1·
b
ht SZ2 25 t s . t
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I!Jregon br&Jght from 49 to 53 cents
179 good age cows and calves to tt ~t1cs _ s~owtn,._ 40.0~ Amcncan~
23
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rol!ght f ·d
t , m the grease and mixed lambs a Delta Colo buver at $232
''til d1e m wrecks tht5 year.
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$21 50 and 10 000 old crop slaugh- woo so
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buy at $246
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1 gradmg
ter ambs ~th No. 1 pets,
Texas wools: .G.ood 12 months
80 threC.:year--old heifers with
mostly chOICe, at $20 to S21.
Te:r:cas wool in ortgma_l bags sold at first calves at side at $236 r pair
SONORA, TEXAS
estimated clean p r I c es around to the Ute Mountain In~ns of
All Breed Sheep Sale, Wool
$1.18-1.20 while average style 12 New Mexico.
Show At Brownwood May 5-7 mo!lths wool sold from $1.12-1.15 27 three-year-olds with calves to
delivered Boston.
Ute Indians at $242.
Capital, Surplus and UnBROWNWOOD, Texas-ThP an126 three-year-old springer heif·
1ers at $225.
nual All Breed Ram & Ewe Sale Cattle Steady, Lambs Up
divided Profits
360 running age springer cows
and Wool Show sponsored by the At Westem Livestock Sale
at $190 each to a Kansas buyer.
OVER $550,000.00
Sire healthy, disease resistP u~c bre.d Shecp Bre_e d ers A_ssn. 0 f SAN ANGELO-The catUe mar- Suckla said 1~7 bulls, ranging
ant calves with higher
Texas
wtll
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m~ood,
ket
was
steady
on
462
head
here
from
three
to
five
years
in
age,
Serving Sutton County
weaning weights.
:\lay
5·7.
This
sale
~as ~econ:te one last week at Western Livestock sold at an average of $320 each.
Since 1900
of _the_ l~g~st of 1ts kmd m the Comm. Co. The ~he~p market was A large number attended the
Are
dependable breeders,
nation, tt IS O{>en to any Texas steady to 50 cents higher on lambs sale including several other buyers
siring high percentage
breeders of. regts!C'l"ed sheep .. The this week. Sheep run totaled 698 who' took smaller lots.
calf crops
wool show IS open to any register- head.
MEMBER F. D. I. C.
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Do
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a good place fo hang your hat
ters $11.5().16.25, s~ke!" and feed- 1n southern Colorado direct range
AMERICAN
e~ steers
$22-24.50,
plam
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ffi:e· J'
trade recently
dtum
$19-23;
good and
choice
s kl ' accordin"
f c t ., to dealer 1 SHORTHORN ASS'N.
OMAHA 7, NEBRASKA
ers $22-24.50, plain and medium Immy uc a 0 or ez.
0. ~~:1$18-22; fat calves $2().23.25 utility I
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and standard $14-17.50; stocker
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' steer calves s24.so-28.so; good and
en
ca s .
.choice stocker heifer calves $24-26,
QUAL/T
plain and medium steer calves
answers
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$18.5().23, plain and medium heifers $18·22.50; stocker cows $13-17.·
plain and medium cows and
We have had more moisture over this entire country 75;
calves $150-200 per pair.
than ever before in history. Demand is best for stockers.
Clipped heavy feeder lambs sold
A good number of feeder cattle are coming weekly. at $18:19.50; heavy stocker lambs
$16-17.50, light stocker Iambs $18·
20, buck lambs $14-15.50, yearling
muttons $13-14.50, aged ewes $5·
6.50.
Better Service
No Tags •
No Excessive Handling •
SAN FRANCISCO-(USDA)Slaughter cattle sold on a strong to
50 cent higher market in direct
trade in California and Arizona last
week. :\londay .sales were described as fully steady with last week's
activity. Stockers and feeders were
75 cents to $1 higher on choice
quality, 50 cents up on lower kind.
Spring lambs were contracted in
quantity at firm to 50 cents higher
prices. There were some contracts
written for mixed fat and feeder
Iambs at 25 cents to $1 higher.
sales included 700 head of 525
pound steers for April delivery at
$24.50 in Arizona, 280 medium and
good 750 pound mixed steers and
heifers for current delivery at $23
straight; 50 good 600 to 650 pound
heifers at $22.50 for immediate delivery; 175 medium quality heifers
scaling 650 pounds brought $20 and
$21 ; 900 choice 350 pound to 425
pound stocker ~teer and heifer
calves moved at $28 and $31.
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Allen Swenson, Owner-Mgr.
Day or Night Phone CH 9-4508
Bud Owen, Auctioneer
DALHART, TEXAS
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At Frcducers Stock Sales
SA.~
FEED BLOCKS
MINERAL SALT MIXTURES
PHENOTHIAZINE DRENCH
PHENOTHIAZINE SALT MIXTURES
ANGELO-The cattle mar~
ket was strong and active on 1600
head here last week at Producers
Livestock Auction Co. The- sheep
&
market was strong and active on
3600 head.
7600
San Angelo, Texas
Phones: 9697
P. 0 . Box 1333
Fat bulls brought $2().22.50, mediums
$17-20;mediums
fat calves
and plain
year-, r.:•~;;;;~~~~~~~~;;~~~;;;~~~~~~~~~~g
lings $24-26,
$21-24,
kind $15-21; fat cows $15-17.50, can- •
ners and cutters $1().15; good stocker steers $26-30, plain kind $18-26;
good stocker heifers $24·28, plain
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18, cows and calves $165·235 per
pair.
Box 1606, San Angelo, Texas
Old bucks brought $5.5().7, old
ewes $5·7; yearling muttons $13·
Here is my subscription to West Texas Livestock Weekly.
16, aged muttons $1().13; fat lambs !
$20-21.50, wooled stocker Iambs I
$19-20, clipped stocker lambs $16-Name ------ - -··----·-·--·-..-·- ------------·---- ------ -----..- - -------19.
SAN-TEX FEED
Bob Ferguson
Paul PruiH
Gordon Young
Stocker & Feeder CaHie
IMPORT and EXPORT
Office in Hamilton Hotel Lobby
Su!Jscription 8/an/(
A string of 900 medium and good
light stocker steers weighing about
350 to 400 pounds sold this week in
Sonora, Mexico for April delivery .
on this side of the border at $271
and 300 choice steers of about the
Phone RA 2-3541 or RA 2-2665
same weight brought $32, f.o.b. the
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MINERAL CO.
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City or Town
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE IS $7.00 PER YEAR
(Mexico & Canada-$8.50 per year)
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'Gainability,' Also 'Buy-Ability'
SUDAN, Texas-The order buyers may not know it yet, but they
are being checked on their judgment of selecting "good doing" cattle for the Sudan Livestock & Feeding Co. here.
Youthful Jim Davidson and his
father, veteran cattleman and feeder Ben Davidson, are keeping tabs
on their order buyers by burning a
buyer's identifying initial brand on
cattle arriving at the sprawling
11,000-head capacity pens.
Buyers all the way from Kansas
City to southern Louisiana ship cattle to the Davidsons. They have
about half a dozen consistent order
buyers who put cattle together for
them at sales rings in half a dozen
states. The cattle can't be kept in
separate pens according to buyer,
of course, and the only way to
know which of the many thousands
in the yards were bought by a spe-
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cific buyer is to "buyer brand"
them. young Davidson explained.
The practice was started recently.
Davidson said that when they decide to buy a certain weight and
type of cattle to feed, the order
goes out to buyers at points where
that kind of cattle can be found.
When the cattle start arriving. they
may come from the Kansas City
stock yards or the Texarkana auction. They're shaped up and mixed
together in pens.
"Without the initial brand, we
cooldn't tell which catt:le came
from where or who bought them
for us," Davidoon pointed out.
The D a vi d sons have always
branded a pen number on their
own cattle, and now add the "buyer brand" at the same time.
"We watch the cattle here closely, and when some in a pen are not
doing as well as they should, we
Livestock Buyets Directory
W. B. ALEXANDER
Order Buyer
All Cleues of Stocker Cettle
Phone CR 5--4701, Cuero, Texu
FRED BALL
Phone 6718 or 7467, San Angelo. Texes
TONY BARCELONA
Order Buyer
Phone TAylor 2-2825, Bryan, Tnu
T. K. CHADDOCK
All kinds of stocker and feeder cattle.
Phone Ll 2-4437; P. 0. lox 614
Brownsville, Texas
R. R. CORDER
Goats, Sheep and Cattle
Ph. Murdod 3-2705, Rochprinc;~s, Teus
H. M. " HUB" CORN
Order luyer, Sheep and Cattle
Dunlap Itt., Roswell, N. M.
Phone Main 2-Q420, Ext. liS
OTHO DRAKE
Phone 370& or 5021, San Angelo. Teres
DON ESTES
Auctioneer end Order Buyer
Desdemona, Texas, Phone 25".
CARROLL FARMER CO.
2812 Petrick, San Anc;~olo, Texas
Phone: Office 2-4051 - ltes. 2-5571
All classes of sheep bouc;~ht on order.
MARTIN HARVIC K
Sheep end Cattle on Order
Phone EX 2-2397
Ozona. Texas
I. KEMP JANECEK
Stocker end Fe eder Buyer
Ph. CE 9-4325, Box 236, ltunge, Tex.
C. T. JONES, Sr.
Quality range sheep and cattle;
stocker end feeder calves and lambs
a specialty. Phone 2-ll41 or 4202.
Sonorat Texas.
BEN KEELE, Order Buyer
Dealer In All Kinds of Livestock
Phone Exmore l-24t4, Box 176
Tatum, New Mexico
ERNEST KNOTT
Stocker t. Feeder Cattle
Phone Porter l-4354; 136 Hlc;~hland Dr.
Clovis, New Mexico
RUSTY KNOTT
Stocker I Feeder Cattle; Ph. Chappel
30204; 511 15th St., Albuquerque, N. M.
KOTHMANN COMMISSION CO.
Sheep 1: Cattle. Office Phone 65
Jamie Kothmann, Phone 32&W
Carleton Kothmann, Phone 24t
Menard, Texas
LEWTER FEED LOTS
Lubbock, Teras
D. W. Lewter, Mana9er
Phone SHerwood 4-4517 or
SWift 9-2487
A. W. LORENZ
Order buying, ell cluses of livestock.
Phone TR l-4210, Beulah, North Dakota.
BUDDY MAJOR
Stocker I Feeder Cattle
Phone UL 4-2472, Me9dalena, N. M.
ROY MARTIN
Dealer In ell closses of sheep.
San Anc;~elo, Texas- Phone 22631
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try to do something about it," Jim March 24, 1960 WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
stated. "Under this new system of
buyer branding we have some idea
of where a poor doing animal originated and who bought it for us."
He said the "buyer brand" opens
the possibility of catching check
e MISCELLANEOUS
weights by areas of origin and buy- e BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES
ers at any time during the feeding
CONCRETE WOitK ANYWHERE. Tanks and
period as well as when the cattle
trou9hs a specialty. My work c;~uarenteed end
are finished. This would give a
personally supervised. TOM GOBEli, Box 160,
comparison of gains on cattle from.
Momon, Teres. Phone TE S-2351.
say, East Texas with those from
Oklahoma.
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"You can see it's not just to check
Well Service
on order buyers," Jim explained.
Cell or write
"It gives us a method of checking
on cattle by area and how they do
DAVID R. LIGON
on feed. But I'll say this about it-JA 4-tsn
ED 6-2440
Located in irrigated belt
if there are a large number of one
1140 Plain St.
807 N. Missouri
of
Texas
where
feed
is
Los Cruces, N. M. Ft. Stockton, Teres
buyer's cattle in the bottom end
cheal}-and near good
when it's time to ship the cattle to
a packer, it means we're going to
source of proteins. Dry
take a closer look."
'WATER WITCHING
climate, cool but not cold
Davidson sajd they hadn't told
a Proven Fact'
weather.
buyers yet of their new "buyer
Ranch or irrigation.
brand" system.
Terms on request.
2000-head lot with
"It should prove interesting," he
PAUL M. EVANS
grain elevator and pushsaid.
E V Ranch
button feed mill; on highVan Horn, Texas
way and all-weather
roads near troughs.
JON MAYNARD
Dodge City, Kanws.
Representin9 McKinley-Winter Livestock
Comm. Co., Inc. Bonded order buying
of stocker I F. .der cat11e.
Phone: Office, HUnter 3-4159;
ltes. HU 3-6788.
Feed Lots
For Lease
Glossary Of
Market Terms
Used By USDA
Under Management of
competent college graduate. Owner wants to
lease due to other
business activities.
WANTED
500,000 Burlap Feed Bags
8 & 10 oz.
WESTERN BAG CO.
P. 0 . Box 2513 • Ph: DR 2-8401
Amarillo, Texas
FORT WORTH- The following
Located
glossary of market terms used moot
frequently by USDA reporters was
:> miles west of
To Settle Est ate
listed recently by Bob Chandler of
Plainview, Texas.
LESLIE McBRIDE
Texas Livestock Marketing Assn.,
of
Stocker end Feeder CaHie for Sale.
Fort Worth, in his weekly "Sheep
HARRY
IGO
Newsletter":
Phone C R 5-4818, Cuero, Texas.
CECIJL C. ROURK
MARKET ACTIVE-A brisk, lively
MID-WEST FEED YARDS
Phone
Mack
Diese-l Tractor Model H
CApital
4-6321
market with sales consumated
63, 130" wheel base, 285 moPhone 6718, San An9elo, Toxu
early; not necessarilyf but often
tor with blower and 40' Hobbs
Plainview, Texas
at higher price. Usual y qualified
C. L. " SHOT" MILLER
Tandem t r a i l er. Chevrolet
Buyer of any kind of cattle.
as fairly active, very active, etc.
Truck Tractor with 35' Hyde
Ph. Dlt 2-~54, 201 West 41st,
MARKET STEADY-No immediate
Trailer.
Ama rillo, Texas.
change from previous sales day. YOUR WANT AD in this space
See
E. L. MITCHELL
May be qualified as about steady,
San An9olo, Texas, 1423 Grierson St,;
will reach a multitude of readerr.
mostly steady, etc.
HAROLD
WEBB
Phone 373 I. Representinc;~ Molton
MARKET FULLY STEADY-Prices Send in your ad copy today!
Marfa, Texas
Provision Co., San Antonio, Texas,
holding firm or a little higher.
processors of cattle, sheep I 90ats.
MARKET DULL-Demand poor,
J . W. NIX CATTLE COMPANY
market inactive, sales late.
Fort Worth, Texas
219 Livestock Exchange Bldg.
DEMAND SLOW-Quality of offerOffice Ph. MA 4-3 ItI; ltu. MA 6-36t7
ings or current asking prices, unALL ORDERS GET PROMPT ATTENTION
attractive to buyers.
DEMAND GOOD-All buyers in
CLEO NORWOOD
Worley Mills' new I 0-story, push-button unit (electronRepresenting Wertheimer Cattle Co.
market at going prices.
1016 Florida St., Phone Dltako 6-76&2
ically
controlled) gives absolute quality control and milling
LIGHT
SUPPLIES-Insufficient
for
Amarillo, Texas
demand, market could use more.
perfection for a better blend of all OKAY feeds.
LEROY RUSSELL
Light supplies usually help the
2420 West Avenue L
No wonder OKAY scientific feeds are better than
fat market, but can hurt stockers
Su An9elo, Texas. Phone 22104
and feeders when supplies are inever ••• Try 'em!
adequate to allow for sorting for
L. F. SNEED
• LarCJest, Most Modern Feed Mill in the Southwest •
uniform weights and classes in
Phone 6317, San An9elo, Texas
lteprosentlng Balthauser I Moyer
truck or rail lots for shipment.
All classes sheep and cattle on order
HEAVY SUPPL IES-More than de·
mand, prices weakening.
SWIFT & COMPANY
Sheep I Lamb Buyln9 Division
PACKER BUYERS-Usually salarChas. Losey, Phone: Office MA 4-3161,
ied representatives of packing
Fort Worth, Rs. CR 5-7119, Arlin9ton,
houses buying supplies under orTexas. lt. H. Rock, San Anc;~olo, Texas,
ders from their plants.
Phone 2-546-4.
BUYERS-Men who act as
Since 1935
TEXAS LIVESTOCK MARKET- ORDER
purchasing agent for others on a
ING ASSN.
strict
commission
basis.
CLOVIS,
NEW MEXICO
Order-Buyers l salesmen for all
TRADERS-Buyers for speculative
classes of cattle.
P. 0. Box 5 12
Ph. PO 3-3473
purposes, hoping to resell at a
8111 Martin, San Anc;~elo, Ph. 5012
profit.
A. J. Kemp, DlmmiH, Tex. Ph. 523
OUTS IDERS- Infrequent buyers,
BUSTER TROTTER
usually farmers or ranchers who
Phone 2-1405, Sharon Hotel,
fill only their own immediate
San Angelo, Texas.
needs.
VANN & SON, Cattle Buyers
BOUGHT TO ARRIVE-Livestock
217 Livestock Exchanc;~e lldc;~.
weighed through regular chanFort Worth, Texas
nels, but at a previously deterALL CLASSES OF CATTLE
Office Ph. MA 6-5417; Yards, MA
mined price which may not coin6-46t6; Nlc;~ht, J. D. Venn, MA 4-tt32
cide with delivery days market.
Actually a short contract.
CHAS. WALLER
DI RECTS-Livestock purchased by
Roswell, New Mexico
Ph. MAin 212t0 ot Roswell or 6718 at
packers in the country, at other
San Angelo, Texas.
markets, auction sales, etc., for
delivery to and processing by
WITTENBURG SHEEP CO.
their local plant.
Odus Wittenburg - L. W. Wittenburg
Qufllity CfJnfrDIIJy ElectrDnics
WORL EY
MILLS
Kansas' Largest Livestock Auction
McKinley-Winter
Livestock Comm. Co., Inc.
Sale Every
Livestock bou9ht I sold on order.
Box M4, Phone PR 5-5632, Del Rio, Tex.
JIM WOFFORD
Llvostock Order Buyer & Trucket
P. 0. Box Ill, Cuero, Texos
Phone Cit S-3t35
Mcrket Steady To Higher
At 4-C Cat tle Auction
CLOVIS, N. M.-(USDA)-Stock-
er cattle and calves sold fully
AMOS WOMBLE
All classes of livestock handled on
order. Phone 6156 or ltural 1704,
San Angelo, Texas.
~~~i;~~~i~~~!~~==~==~iii~~~
steady, most feeders fully 50 cents
higher, here last week at Clovis
Cattle Comm. Co. Most of 2288
head sold were medium and good
stockers and light weight feeders
under 700 pounds.
Trading was active on all classes
with the exception of stocker calves
• tion to other replacement classes.
fewwere
shortfed slaughter
A
which
slowtaken
insteers
relaand
heifers relatively
were largely
by
feeder interests. Cows sold firm to
50 cents higher, utility at the full
advance. Bulls sold fully steady.
Utility and commercial cows sold
at $15.60-19.30, many $16 up; canners and cutters $13.50-16.20, mostly above $14; utility and low commercial bulls $19.60-2.2.80.
Good and choice stocker and
feeder steers $24-27.80, corrunon
and me d i u m $18-24; good and
choice stocker and feeder heifers
$23.30-25.70, common and medium
$17.40-23; good and low choice
stocker steer calves $27.30-30.60,
medium $25.40-27; good and low
c-hoice heifer calves $25.80-27.90,
medium $24-26; common and medium stocker oows $14.70-18.30, a
few with calves $190-234 per pair.
WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY
Dodge City, Kansas
P. 0 . Box 107
Phone HUnter 3-4159
Much 24, 1960 I
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
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- CLASSIFIED ADS
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CLASSIFIED AD RATES - $1 minimum, 15 words or les.s ; 5c per each additional word. Cluslfied
display $3.00 per inch for one insertion or $2.50 per inch two or more insertions.
e LIVESTOCK FOR SALE
e RANCH LAND
RANCH LAND
FOR SALE
roR SALE: 1751 acres 9rass land; l pastures,
MOUNTAIN RANCH
3 wells, 900d fences, well lmrpoved. Stt or
600
ewes-lambing
write ANDREW CONNELL, Sedan, N. Mn
Northeastern New Mexico · 400
550 ewe lambs
head capacity. Several springs,
FO R l EST New Mexico Cattle and Sheep
ELMER McGILL
lots of running water and 7 shal·
Ranches write PRAG ER MILLEit, R.nch Spe·
Phone 3831
low wells. Grama grass and oak
cla Us!, 204 South Kentucky, Roswell, N. M.
Olton, TexH
browze. Over 100 acres in irrigation for raising feed. Plenty
RANCHES FOR SALE
of deer and turkey. All 14,000
FOR SALE
acres deeded land and priced to
1. Highly improved, 4500 acres
sell at $17.50 per acre.
deeded. Mountains. Beautiful.
100 good age HerefOI'd cows
2. 16 sections, fair ranch, good
and calves.
R. W. SELLERS ASSOCIATES
home, REA, phone; $67,500,
Room 238, Korber Building
DICK
MAYFIELD
only $12,500 down.
Phone Bean Exchange: 4550
Albuquerque, N. Mex.
3. 12 sections, mostly deeded;
Silverton, Texas
fine ranch. Net wire; sheep
or cattle. $120,()()()-easy terms.
e PASTURAGE
REGISTERED HEREFORDS
4. 25,000 acres, all deeded. Top
grama grass ranch. $25 per
GOOD GRASS
Two Outstanding Herd Bull
acre, lots of good improveFor 500 light yearlings for sum·
Prospects
ments.
mer season. Have good uncut
Full Brother s · Clean Pedigrees
hay bottom they could go on
5. 35,000 acres, a 11 deeded,
REGINALD ATKINSON
April 10.
mountains, game, fish; a fine
Ph. TE 5-2084 • Mertzon, Texas
RONNY SCHLIEP
ranch with unlimited possi·
Phone 5F3 • Haigler, Nebr.
bilities. Real investment at
$22.50 per acre.
REGISTERED ANGUS
6. Two large forest ranches;
PASTURE
stock stay fat, no feeding;
50 choice registered Angus
Kansas Blue Stem, Flint Hills.
well improved, fine yearCan take 300 steers or 200 cows
br ed heifers, raised in .
round New Mexico ranches.
at $18 and $27, April 20 to
$400,000 for one and $500,000
nois: $350 per head.
Oct. 15.
for the other.
35 registered yearling An·
BILL WEBSTER
Come To See Us!
Ph: 449W2 • Howard, Kansas
gus heifers, open: $190 per
Ranches are not as plentiful
head.
as they have been and it's get·
EXCELLENT
ting har der to find a good
DON ESTES
one for sale, but that is our
SUMMER PASTURE
business and we can sure help
Phon e 2516
For 350 steer yearlings.
you, so call us, folks where
Head or gain basis.
De sd emona , Texas
D. L. GANN
'The Best Ranches are
Phone: 626-J
Listed and Sold'
Clayton, New Mexico
JOE MASSEY RANCH SALES
HEREFORD lULLS
Box 1112
Ph. MA 3-1420
FOR SALE
SOUTH DAKOTA
Roswell. New Mexico
30 two and coming two-year·
PASTURE
old register ed Het'eford bulls;
Will pasture 350 light yearTo Be Sold at Publ ic Auction
Joe Bridwell breeding, from
lings for sea son. Famous
MONDAY,
Windthorst, Texas. Good head·
Mobridge West River ranch
ed, big boned and lots of size,
MARCH 28, 1960
country. Well watered and
from good milking cows, raisSale starts 10:30 a.m.
fenced.
ed on the range.
Farm Sells 2 p.m.
Excellent 547-ac re Stock Ranch,
JOE MITCHELL & SON
OVERTON NEAL
modern improvements.
Box 772 • Phone MA 2·9192
Box 188
The Charley Boyd Ranch
Roswell, New Mexico
Phone MO 3-2244
5 miles east of Richland, Kan.,
Quanah, Texas
or 17 miles southwest of Law·
renee, Kan., or 25 miles south·
east of Topeka, Kan., or 13 miles
FOR SALE
northeast of Overbrook, Kan., or
PASTURE
5 miles west of Clinton, Kan. On
FOR RENT
all routes and all-weather road;
210 Hereford steer calves, apCan take cattle in bunches of
plenty of water piped to barns
300 or 500 or 800 head and will
and lots for wintering 200 head
proximately 400 lbs. Good to
keep them in separate pastures
of cattle. 447 acres of good grass
choice,
on cake and grass, New
at
$2
per
head
per
month
near
and meadow (will carry 150
Weibaux, Mont.
head); 100 acres broke producMexico origin.
If you should have 1000 head
tive land for feed. 17 miles from
you can send your own careKansas U. Fonnerly known as
W. C. KILE
taker and I will pay his wages.
the Russell Sutton Ranch.
Can take cattle at on.ce; have
TERMS: 25 ~ down, balance in
2681 Oxford • Phone 6172
plenty of feed and would be
20 yearly payments at 5~ interbetter to have cattle start when
San Angelo, Texas
p.;:~. Also selling a full line of
grass starts about April 1. Have
farm machinery and 50 head of
of
grass,
salt
and
water.
plenty
Angus cows, now calving.
If you wanted to stay over next
For more details contact the
winter I could handle 1000 cato\\-'llers. Mr. and Mrs. Charley
tle.
I"OR SALE
Boyd, Richland, Kan., Rt. 1; or
Write or call:
Dains Real Estate, Silver Lake,
450 good to choice purebred
TEX WILSON
Kan., phone JU 2·2770.
209 L. S. Exchange Bldg.
Angus cows; 80 with calves,
You are cordially invited to
Union Stockyards
look this over before sale clay.
balance springers. 80 head are
Denver 16, Colorado
Ph: AL 5·1531 or KE 4-4824
MR. and Mrs. CHARLEY BOYD
3-year-olds, rest 4 to 6; all one
Owners
family of cattle.
Latest livestock reports straight
DAINS REAL ESTATE
from the ranch country in West
Auctioneers
Texas Livestock Weekly. $7 year.
0 . 0 . TURNER
Phone HU 2·53M
Altus, Oklahoma
e
LIVESTOCK FOR SALE
STEERS FOR SALE
100, wt. 600 pounds; 122, wt. 500
pounds and 312, wt. 400 pounds.
Deliver April 10 to 15.
0. G. HILL JR.· Ph. EM 4-0034
or Foster HILL, Ph. CL 8-4373
Hereford, Texu
e
FOR SALE
Native Panhandle Cows.
Good ages, Reputation
Brand, with calves or
heavy springers, in
lots to suit.
250
e
nli-
I
1000 HEAD OUTFIT
WITH CATTLE - $400,000
116 sections mountain and desert cow and steer ranch, with esti·
mated 1200 cattle plus 1960 calf crop. Guarantee to count 700 head
yearlings and up, 1959 calf branding (still on hand) indicates at
least 600 brood cows in permanent herd. Historically runs 700 to
1000 breeding cattle plus several hundred extra yearlings season·
ally. A prac;tical, working ranch and always a money maker. A
great Alfileria country. In our opinion the best ranch buy in the
Southwest, and will be sold within 60 to 90 da ys. ACT NOW!! !
DAN C . McKINNEY, Realtor
650 N. 6th Ave.
TUCSON, ARIZ.
SANTA GERTRUDIS
Yearling and mature classified bulls, cows and heifers.
Also 20 s t e e r s weighing
around 600 pounds.
Rec)istered
HEREFORDS
From Hereford
Have stood the test many years.
Let me help you locate your
needs in herd bulls or range
bulls in any age or numbers.
Also some cows and heifers.
BUD MINOR
Box 423 • Phone EM 4-1966
Hereford, Texas
Choice Re9istered
ANGUS BULLS
15 head 13 to 16 months old
2 two-ycar-olds
1 proven herd sire
JESSE GARRETT
Route 3, Box 228
Cisco, Texas
PhOM: Breckenridge, Texas:
HI 9·2924
e
HELP WANTED
HELP WANTED
Ranch job, good wages, house
and utilities furnished. Ranch
35 miles northwest of Dell City,
Texas.
DON T. LEE
Phone: HE 7.0362
Alamogordo, New Mexico
Performance Tested Bull Sale
Panhandle A&M College Farm
GOODWELL, OKLA.
Friday, April 1
55 registered Hereford bulls 12·
20 months old. All f e r t i l i t y
checked; 140-<lay test ()n high
roughage r a t i o n s, some will
have Performance Registry In·
ternational certificates. Sale 1
p.m. in heated arena. For com·
plete information contact: M. W.
England, A. H. Dept., Panhandle
A&M College, Goodwell, Okla.
Yuma Cattle Market
Active And Steady
YUMA, Ariz.-The cattle market
was active and steady on 1199 head
here last week at Yuma Livemock
Auction.
Representative sales included 66
good whiteface steers weighing 454
pounds at $25.75; 47 mixed 304
pounds steer calves $25.60; 30 good
533 pounds whiteface and black
steers $25.70; 15 mixed 675 pound
steers $25.20; 18 mixed 343 pound
steers $25.10; 36 Santa Gertrudis
FOR SALE
steers weighing 422 pounds $25.20;
35
Santa Gertrud is s t e e r 539
One and two-year-old big bon.
pounds $24.50; 44 crossbred steers
ed Hereford bulls, mostly yel:
low; sires and dams can be
479 pounds $24; 36 crossbred steers
seen; will sell one to a car·
568 pounds $24.10; 18 Brahman
load. Price around one-half of
steers 386 pounds $22; 35 black
r egistered sa 1 e s. Bloodlines:
whiteface steers 626 pounds $23.25;
Proud M i x e r , Lamplighter,
Beau G u i n n and Colorado
34 Okie steers 452 pounds $23.70;
Baldwin.
22 plain Okie steers 627 pounch:
$20.80; 19 mixed steers 609 pound'>
J. J. STEELE
$23.20; 30 whiteface steers 722
Box 835
pounds $25.50; 47 whiteface steers
Phone PO 3·3521 or PO 3-6455 769 pounds $24.30; 30 feeder steers
906 pounds $23.80; 34 mixed feeder
Clovis, New Mexico
steers 865 pounds $23.80; 32 mixed
WTLW classified ads get results! feeder steers 731 pounds $23.90.
s
Special
STOCKER s ·ALE
COWS, BULLS, COWS & CALVES
Brahmans. Crossbreds, Herefords, An9us
EXPECTING OVER 1500 HEAD
Monday, April 4
MADISONVILLE, TEXAS
Starting at 11 a. m.
MADISON COUNTY LIVESTOCK
COMMISSION CO.
Hiway 90 South
MADISONVILLE, TEXAS
Phone Dl 82673
E. B. Andrews, Jr. • Ph. Dl 82196
Earl Whlte • Ph. Dl 82550
We can fill your orders for
.-
HI-QUALITY
SANTA GERTRUDIS
10 young cows now dropping calves.
100 yearling heifers ready
to breed.
50 yearling and 2-year-old
bulls r eady for service.
All purebred Santa Gertrudis with papers furnished.
Cowart Cattle Company
The movement of cattle of! wheat
pasture in eastern New Mexico has
reached its peak and is expected
to start declining into the clean-up
s~e. Clovis dealer Ken White Slllid
FOSTER HILL
Phone CL 8-4373, or
0. G. HILL JR.
Phone EM 4-1871
Hereford, Texas
Purebred
C. E. KENNEMER, JR.
S.G.B.I. Herd No. 482
707 Davis Bldg.
Ph. Rl 1-4201 or LA 1-5576
Dallas 2, Texas
LIVESTOCK FOR SALE
this week. Practically all wheat-pasTele phone: 5244 or 2944
turcd c a t t 1 e, except those on
Henderson, Texas
fields that will be plowed up later . ,
will be moved within the next 10
days or so, he Slllid .
~------------...J
Lightweight Stocker Cattle
includin9 calves wei9hin9 175 to 300 'bs.
Herefords, An9us. Crossbreds or Brahmans.
Alsa An9us or Hereford calves wei9hin9 300 to
400 lbs. - heifers, steers and bull calves.
CALL US FOR QUOTATIONS ON LIGHT CAnLE
Sin9le or double-deck livestock haulin9.
K & M CATTLE CO.
SULPHUR, LOUISIANA
Edward Lee Kinney
Cotton Kinney
James Miller
Ph. JU 3-6361
Ph. JU 3-3889
Ph. JU 3-7047
Carlyss, La.
Carlyss, La.
Carlyss, La.
Bonded
& Insured
Orders filled by capable buyers
Wool Incentive Rate
Due To Be Sharply
Off From Last Year
Feeder Cattle
Lower In Ke C.;
Stockers Weak
West Texas LIVESTOC K WEEKLY
March 24, 1960
Page 12
Texhoma Cattle Market
Strong To $1 Higher
TEXHOMA, Okla. - The cattle
market here last week was strong
to $1 higher on all classes. Receipts
totaled 2295 head. After a few days
of warm, sunny weather wheat pasture movement is underway.
Choice lightweight steer calves
enjoyed most of the market adv~nce with sales fully $1 to $1.50
higher. Feeder steers and heifers
SC?ld fully 50 cents higher, plain
kinds fully steady to strong.
Good and choice steer calves $3().
33.50, medium and good $28.5().30;
g~od heifer calves $26.50-28; medium and good y e a r I i n g steers
$24.50-26.50, a few choice up to
$29.50; good feeder steers $24.5026, choice to $27; feeder heifers
$23.50.26; cows bulked at $16-17.40,
bulls $20.21.60.
------
Total acreage of crops planted or
grown in the U. S. m 1960 now
looks to be about 337 million acres,
less than a million below 1959, the
USDA reports. Feed grain acreage
is expected to be a litUe smaller
thar last year as a result of reduc·
tions in oats and barley.
e
TOO LATE TO CLASSIFY
GOOD BUFFALO GRASS
F-or 250 cows or 400 yearlings,
cows preferred. Plenty of water.
V. E .GATES
PhoM LU 2·2651
Coldwater, Kansas
Amazing New
Pasture Grass . •
Gordo Bluestem
Plain Cattle Bring $23.50-25
Ray Brown of Adrian, Texas sold
115 shvrt yearling h e i f e r s and
steers, described as plain mixed
breeds weighing about 470 pounds,
at $23.50 and $25 to Reese Lawson
of Hereford, delivered last week
off wheat pasture.
To Get the Most lor Your Stock
PHONE
81~~~ s-x-~._,
BOX
1689
~ -~-~- - ~
c::1ifL1VESTOCK COMMISSION
San Angelo, Texas
JAMES MICKLER, Mgr.
SALES
Sheep
11 :00 Cattle & Hogs
TUESDAY
A.M. THURSDAY
Courteous • Ellicient • Cooperative
(Formerly San Angelo Livestock Auction Co. )
Choice Eastern Montana Ranches
40,00 ACRE RANCH with 30,000 acres deeded. Low cost leases as·
signed on 10,000 acres. Half minerals on 22,500 acres. Winter pastures have natural protection and artesian water. 800 acres hay
under pump irrigation. Can add 200 more. Strong grass tests 18tk
protein. Two rivers, creeks, 32 reservoirs, springs, flowing wells
and windmills. Run 1500 cows and replacements without feeding.
Hay crop for added capacity or .additional income. Outstanding
improvements at lower end of winter pastures, with $40,000 own·
er's home. All blocked, well fenced, on highway. The perfect cattle·
man and sportman's ranch at $25.00 per acre for def>ded land. 29tk
down. Balance over 20 years.
19,000 ACRE RANCH. 14,640 acres deeded and balance on low cost
leases.assigned free. Half minerals on 8000 acres near production.
Good rmpr?~ements perfec!IY located. 480 acre woven wire holding
pasture. Livmg water, sprmgs and str-ong wells. Winter pastures
~ell
protected an4 with spring water. All blocked, very well fenced
m 12 pastures. M1xture of strong grasses. Tum out in mid-April.
Run 800 cows and increase without feeding. Can cut 1000 tons of
hay for added capacity. One of Montana's finest ranches at $22.50
per acre for the deeded land. 259C down. Balance over 20 year s
at
5~ .
These ranches In very good winter country, subject to
Chinook winds. Ye u 'round gruing. Early grass. Good
markets. Elevation 2000 ft.
BOTH RANCHES AVAILABLE FOR 1960 OPERATION
Dahms Realty & Investment Co.
BRUSH, COLORADO
Phone VIctor 2-2804
""-------------------------..1
Comes Back Year After Year
WRITE for FREE PROOF!
An amazing high fat building
pasture grass • GORDO BLUE·
STEM • originating in hot South
Africa has been tested for 7
years in this country with asto unding resul ts.
Actually survives hot, dry, windy
Brahman Type Cows At $170
summers and is so highly palatFrank Smith, San Angelo, and able and full of nutriment cows
Roger Cantor, Midland, last week· actually walk away from neighend sold to Frank Helvey, San An· boring pastures to eat it. To
tonio, 100 B r a h m a n type cows, learn more about this remarksome with calves, at $170 per cow, able permanent pasture grass
through Lacy N()ble, San Angelo. that comes back year after year,
They also sold to Helvey 32 coming write Gordo Bluestem Seed Co.,
two-year --old Angus steers at $23 P.O. Box 11247, San Anton io 8,
(Continued from Page 1)
expected to weigh around 750 when Texas, for free bullet in 3A.
$18.75 per hundred poonds from delivered this week.
about $21 in 1958. They're concern·
ed that imports this year could rise
to 20 percent o! domestic production or around 135 million pounds.
Se-ars said that following conclusion of the hearings it will be at
least "several days" before a ruling
on the imp<>rt matter can be ex·
where they'll make the most
pected from the commission. He
said commi~sion chairman J oseph
gain at the least cost:
E. Talbott has repeatedly told witnesses and interested parties at the
hearings that the question of im·
ports is "a serious matter with
many angles and will require a tremendous amount of study."
Attending the import hearings
with Sears as a TS&GRA represen·
tative is Jerry Puckett, Fort Stock·
ton. They also attended C!. hearing
before the House Agriculture Com·
mittee this week on extending the
bracero pr()gram.
Imports
·Feed your cattle
PLAINSMAN
FEED YARDS
Amarillo Stockers
Strong, Up 50 Cents
AMARILLO-(USDA) - Stocker
and feeder cattle sold mostly strong
to 50 cents higher here this week
although in e a r I y trading some
stocker and feeder s t e e r s sold
steady to 50 cents lower. Receipts
totaled 10,000 head. Cows and bulls
sold fully steady.
Utility and commercial cows sold
at $15.20-17.90, canners and cutters
$13-14.50; utility and commercial
bulls $19-22.30, many commercial
$21.5().22.
Good and choice feeder steers
$23.90-27.40, me d i u m $21-24.25;
good and choice stocker steers $2428.30, medium $21.8().25.80; good
and choice stocker and feeder heifers $22.25-27, medium $19.75·23.50;
good and choice steer calves $2532, medium and low good $22.8026; good and choice heifer calves
$23·28.20, me d i u m $22·24; good
stocker cows $19.25-21; medium
cows and calves $1~3-213 per pair.
Plainview, Texas
Located in the center of the nation's
greatest sorghum grain producing
area where feeding costs, favorable
climate and other factors make for
economical year-around gains.
We cordially invite you to see our
feeding facilities and discuss details
ol finishing your cattle lor market.
WRITE OR CALL
HARRY IGO or JOE KING
Plainview, Texas
Phone CA 4-6321 or CA 3-3281