Light Stocker ~ ~ M uttons Get More Inquiry Stocker Cattle Get Active

WEST
Vol. 2 - No. 15
SAN ANGELO. TEXAS, THURSDAY, MAY 18, 195 0
Light Stocker
~ ~ Muttons Get
More Inquiry
The sheep market was relatively unchanged in the country
throughout West Texas and New
Mexico this week, though Northern buyers were reportedly showing more interest in light stocker
yearlings weighing 6 5 to 7 5
pounds. The heavy, half-fat kind
continue draggy in the country
as well as at Fort Worth.
A good many yearling ewes are
priced at $20 per head in West
Texas, and so me outstanding
.Lunches have sold lately at up to
r"''
$22. Best demand seems to be for
crossbreds, however, and some
straight Rambouillets in rather
poor flesh have been moved at
20 to 22 cents a pound.
An excellent demand has developed for solid mouth or younger dry ewes to go to Kansas or
Oklahoma for immediate breeding
and early lambing. Ewes and
lambs in West Texas recently
have brought anywhere from $20
I to $30 a pair, depending on age
· and quality of ewes and size of
Iambs. A good many pairs are
said to be for sale in the Roswell,
New Mexico, area right now.
Little news of fall lamb con'"1 tracts was forthcoming this week,
and business of this kind is reported to be slow. Good rains in
many sectivns of West Texas have
strengthened growers' optimism,
but New Mexico remains distressfully dry. A few lambs in Crockett
County have been contracted at 20
to 21 cents for fall, but one
ranchman last week reportedly
priced a choice string of crossbred Suffolk lambs at 22lh cents.
The Fort Worth market disf played a slightly better tone this
week, though half-fat clipped
yearlings remain a burden to
salesmen. Runs totaling 20,000 or
• more were reported the first
three days of the week, with a
big percentage of these classed as
stocker yearlings. Best fat ones
brought 24 to 25% cents, ordinary
feeders 20 to 21, with mixed fats
and feeders around 22 cents.
Runs at Fort Worth are showing a higher percentage of spring
lambs now, and the market lor
these is steady to strong with
choice ones bringing 29 to 30
cents a pound.
Stocker Cattle
Get Active Play
At Higher Price
WEST TEXAS A NGUS-These heifers are located on a
ranch west of Mertzon. Demand for this type of cattle is
better than ever, which is why the annual AberdeenAngus commercial sale in San Angelo June 7 is expected to be even better than last year's record auction.
Some 2,000 heifers and cows and 50 registered bulls
will be sold this year, consigned by leading breeders.
Wool Extremely Active, With Better
Texas Clips Selling Mostly At 70-75
The wool market is still hot, 72~ cents was paid this week in
and volume movement of Texas [ San Angelo. The Jap Foster clip
12-months wool at up to 75 cents is reported to have sold through
continues in various parts of the the Alpine warehouse at 69 cents.
state. A sizable tonnage is reportIn New Mexico, Abe Mayer
ed to have sold during the last bought for Draper and Company
few days at Eldorado at up to the 1950 Scharbauer Cattle Com75 cents; at Mertzon, prices of pany clip, 43,000 pounds, through
71lh to 73lh cents were paid, and the Bond-Baker Company warehouse at 65 cents a pound. The
same warehouse sold approximateGee Sells Yearling Ewes
ly 100,000 pounds of small lots to
At $20, Pairs At $22
Edge hill - Lukens a n d A 1 be r t
Jerry Gee of Lampasas, Texas, Schneider at 50 to 65 cents a
has sold 400 yearling ewes at $20 pound.
per head and 500 solid mouth
As much as 76 ~2 cents a pound
ewes with lambs at $22 per pair has been paid for original bag
to Vogler and Sons of Oklahoma l 2-months wool in Texas, and one
City for immediate delivery.
exceptionally light-shrinking clip
Gee recently bought 1,080 aged at Del Rio brought a fraction
muttons out of the wool in Cory- over 80 cents a short time ago.
ell County at 11 cents a pound.
Relatively litt~e eight-months
immediate delivery.
wool remains unsold, and the remaining supply has recently been
Chandler And Story Buy whittled down at 65 to 67 cents
a pound.
Yearling Ewes At $21.50
R. C. Chandler and Dailey Story
of San Angelo have bought 1,100
shorn yearling ewes from Bob
Amacker of San Angelo and 600
from Preston Patton of Rankin
Waller Buys Flying H
at $21.50 per head; these are
crossbred Corriedale-Rambouillets
Muttons At 20 Cents
Charlie Waller of Roswell, New and were originally the E. F.
Mexico, has bought 1,600 clipped Noelke sheep.
yearling muttons from Clement
Hendricks' Flying H Ranch at 20 Contracts Mutton Lambs
cents per pound for immediate
Bob Hurt, associated with AI
delivery. These lambs have beeu DuMain o f San Angelo, h a s
on feed at the Flying H Ranch, bought 4,100 spring mutton lambs
but need additional feed for the recently in the Del Rio section for
p a c k e r s; they're estimated to August delivery at 20 to 20lh
weigh 70 to 75 pounds.
cents per pound.
Waller also bought 350 yearling
ewes f rom t he J . P. White Com- Floyd Sells Pairs
\ pany at Roswell a t 22 cents per
Jay F loyd of Midland has sold
J pound.
about 1,100 two and four-year -old
ewes and lambs in the wool to
Spring Lambs Bring 28
Lea Aldwell and Don Anderson
Jim Phillips of San Angelo this of San Angelo. These ewes were
week marketed 400 spring lambs being shorn on the F loyd ranch
weighing 70 pounds at Fort Worth this week
through Shirley Commission Company at 28 cents a pound.
Hail Storm Hits Roswell
,uys Holland Muttons
l
AI DuMain of San Angelo has
bought 1,800 clipped stocker year1 ling muttons from Clay Holland
• 1of Alpine to be loaded there ear ly
next week.
$5 Per Year-15c Per Copy
A hail storm devastated several
far ms and damaged buildings at
Roswell, New Mexico, last weekend; in some parts of t he storm
area the hail lay five to seven
inches deep. No beneficial rain
accompanied. the hail.
Three-Oay Race Meet
S cheduled At Sonora
A three-day race meet will be
staged by the Sonora Park Association, Sonora, Texas, May 26, 27
and 28; races will be run each
afternoon, and calf roping events
will be held the nights of the 26th
and 27th.
The association is building a
new gr andstand and facilities for
finishing track pictures.
Sells Pairs At $25
Henry Clark, Jr., San Angelo,
has sold 200 aged ewes with big
lambs at side at $25 per pair to
Mark Nasworthy of Forsan, Texas, through Elbert Nutt of San
Angelo.
Dry Ewes Bring $20
Pier ce Hoggett of Kerrville has
sold two carloads of choice, dry
two-year-old ewes at $20 per head
to go to Kansas buyers.
Steers Resold At
25
Webster and Sons of San Angelo have sold 225 steers weighing
560 pounds to Bill Mason of Snyder at 24 cents; Mason r esold
these cattle to Houston Callan of
Eden flt 2G cerlti.
Fred Hill Contracts
Yearlings In Panhandle
For Fall At Up To 2Jlf2
Fred Hill of Whitewater, Kansas, last week contracted about
3,000 yearling cattle in the Amarillo · and Clarendon area for
October deli very at 23 and 23 ¥.:
cents per pound.
Hill has just moved his cattle
from his Cross L Ranch near
Folsom, New Mexico, on account
cf the drouth. lie moved 1,000
head a month ago to Kansas
grass and this week moved another 1,100 head to the Flint Hills.
He says there is not a sprig of
green grass on the Cross L Ranch.
Triplett Contracts
Angus Steers At 26 !14
Smiley Triplett of Amarillo
bought 600 yearling steers from
Floyd McComas of Abilene at
25 ¥.! cents, June 15 delivery, and
250 Angus steers for the same
delivery at 26 ';4 cents.
He also bought 300 yearlings
from Gib Wright of Graham,
Texas, and 200 from a Mr. Newcomb at Hamlin at unreported
prices.
Ozona Yearling Ewes
Go To Kansas At $22
Nobody claims to know why,
exactly, but the stocker and feeder
cattle market in the Southwest
and elsewhere keeps rising. Trading is said to be no more rapid,
and in fact it is slower in some
areas, but ranchmen's aski ni
prices keep well up with, or ahead
of, the ltigher offers.
In New Mexico, where a good
many calves have been contracted
for 25 cents a pound straight
across, fall delivery, one commission man this week called a cattle
dealer to report he had a buyer
red hot for some fall calves at up
to 27 cents a pound; however,
en ly some Angus calves are known
to have sold for that. A string of
100 mixed calves at Magdalena
sold on fall contract at 24 and 25
cents this week, but the buyer who
got them had driven hard all \veek
looking for them. Most ranchmen
refused to price their calves, or
priced them far higher than the
current basis of trading.
Stocker Market Keeps
Upward Trend At K. C.
Last week, for the third week
in a row, the market for stocker
and feeder cattle advanced at
Kansas City, and the averagt•
price of all steers going to the
country was $27.39, or $1.07 more
than the previous week and $3.15
higher than the same week a year
ago.
This week, the market opened
steady to strong again, and trade
was active. Several shipments of
good and choice yearling steers
brought $27.50 to $30; choice steer
calves brought $31, and several
loads of medium and good cows
with calves at side brought $22
to $22.75.
Cows And Calves Go To
Kansas At $23S A Pair
G. B. Braden of Oklahoma City
and Eddie Perkins of Clovis, New
George Montgomery of Ozona Mexico, are reported to have
has sold 6,000 yearling ewes out bought 100 seven-year-old cows
of the wool to go to Manhattan, and calves from Tom Russell of
Menard through Walton KothKansas, at $22 per head.
mann; these eows were resold to
Kansas buyers at $235 per pair.
Elam Receives Pairs
Roy 0. Elam of Greeley, Colorado, was in San Angelo this week Bryant Lambs Go i o
to receive 6,000 ewes and lambs Wilson At 24'12 Cents
which he had bought from A. E.
M. D. Bryant of San Angelo
Neal; t hese were being loaded at sold 1,200 clipped lambs to Wilson
Bronte and Sonora.
and Company through Joh n Clay
and Company at 24lh cents per
Halbert Sells Muttons
pound weighed in Fort Wor th;
Robert Halber t of Sonora has they weighed 102.8 pou'nds.
sold 210 clipped yea rling muttons
through Texas Livestock Market- Buys HeiEerg At $122.~0
ing Association of Fort Wor th
Jean Smith of Cone, Texas, has
weighing 91 pounds at 24 cents a bought and received 750 yearlin~
pound.
heifers from Stanton Brunson of
Crosbyton at $122.50 per head;
Sella Yearlings At 25
these were off Brunson's ranche~
R. L. Stansberry has sold 50 at Crosbyton and Seminoie.
mixed year lings weighing 447
pounds a t 25 cents a pound to Young Cows Bring $21S
Sol Weatherby of San Angelo;
A string of good young cows,
these were off his home ranch at just beginning to calve, are r eChristoval.
ported to have sold in the Roswell,
New Mexico, area lately at $215
Boys Sell Lambs At 22
per head.
Boys Ranch of San Angelo this
week delivered 400 clipped mutton
lambs weighing about 95 pounds Bauman Buys Ewes
J. H. Bauman of Carpenter,
to J ohnny Martin of San Angelo
Wyoming, bought 2,500 yearlin!{
at 22 cents per pound.
ewes from Harbon Neal of San
Phillip Smith of Llano delivered Angelo; these were originally thf'
1,800 blackface yearling ewes this Owen Brothers sheep and were t<l
week at Mid-West F eed Yar ds.
be loaded at Sari Saba.
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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
PAGE T W O
Unfavorable Weather
Forces Some Grains To
New High Price Levels
Feeder Cattle Reach New High For
Year, Fat Cattle Steady At Chicago
CHICAGO -(USDA)- The
price trend on beef steers last
week almost, but not quite, developed into a two· way affair.
Feature of the trade from start
to finish was the broad outlet
accorded common to avl•rage-good
steers and yearlings accompanied
by !;trong to higher prices which
elevated the market on cattle
lacking in finish to a new high
on the crop.
On the other hand, high-good
and choice steers were never more
t han steady to strong at any time,
several loads of choice steers, in
fac t , having to sell 50 cents l:>wer
late in order to find clearance.
But taken by and large it was a
dependable cattle market on practically all classes, grades and
weights.
Steers contmued to predominate
by long odds and 1mproved killing quality testified to the longe r
feeding per iod which the rank
and file of the crop now has had.
T he percentage of choice steer:<
which was the highe!'t of the year
t he previous week moved u p
again, but still was relatively
small by comparison with the big
percentage which graded goo d.,
:\ledium steers were s<'asonally
scar ce, the 8ame being true of
cows, bulls, and stockers and
feeders.
Compar ed with late the previous week, common to average-good .
steers closed mostly 50 cents to $1
higher as high-good and choice
grades held mostly steady. Heifers brought strong to 50 cents
higher prices, cow values did not
change much but closed steady to
25 cents higher, while bulls accumulated gains of 50 cents to $1.
Vealers climbed $1 to $2 and
stock cattle advanced around 50
cents to new high price levels
for the season.
Most choice steer s and long
yearlings weighing 1,425 pounds
down brought $30.75 to $32, top
standing at $32.50 for four load::;
of 1,222-1,357 pound weights. Good
to low-choice fed steers and yearlings bulked at $27.75 to $30.50,
medium to low-good kinds closing
at $26.50 to $28. One load of highchoice 1,1'53 pound
fed heifers
at $31.50 -stood head and shoulders
above the rank and file of the
heifer crop which graded medium
to hw-choice and sold from $25.50
to $29.25.
Good beef cows were wanted at
$22 to $24, common and medium
kinds bulked at $18.25 to $21.50
with cutters at $16.75 to $17.75
mostly. The upturn in bull prices
placed medium and good sausage
ROPING CALVES
kinds in the price bracket of $22,
Any number - t he kind
to $23.50, highest since last sumyou want
n,er. The top on choice vealers of
$32 was a ls:> a new recent high.
OTIS PARKER
Good and choice yearling feeding
SANTA ROSA, N. M.
st<'ers went to the country at
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$27.25 to $28.50, good 925 pound
feeding steers earned $27 and mecHum stockers ranged on down to
$24.
Many loads of choice lightweight
but<-he r h o g s, most of which
weighed 190 to 230 pounds, sold
at $19.75. I n fact, the top was
$1!1.75 or better on each day last
week. Late in the trading period
a few loads and lots of butchers
under 230 pounds reached $19.a5,
$1 !1.90 and $20, but the latte1
price and '"eek's top paid very
l>paringly.
Low(>r dressed trade conditionl;
1 on one hand and increased rc111 general, particularly in
PLYMOUTH TRUE BLUE c£>ipts
thP Southw(>St, forced fed lambs
SILK MANILA ROPE
f>O to 75 cents lower. As a rule,
ThiJ ;, the rope yo u've bun we it ing
wo)l<'d lambs, now out of season
for .•. The very beJt in Manil a Le r·
to the point of uncovering low
iet • . • 100% pure Jilk man il a ro pe
yields and carrying dry, unattrarcomplete with leced luther hondo .. ••
t i ve f!e(>ccs, r eflected t he full delj," wrap arou nd ho rn lu t her ..•
clinP. Not enough genuine spring
STRETCHED •.. READY FOR YOUR
USE . .. IT'S THE BEST MANILA
lambs showed up to make a marlARIAT ROPE YOU CAN POSSIBLY
ket, likewise a seasonal characBUY- AND IT' S PRICED LOW !•
h•ristic of the trade.
•Fru p iggin Jtri ng wit h uch orde r
Sheep held steady but 175 to
for 2 or more rop eJ.
200 pounds and better fat ewes
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dragged. Shorn lambs and sheep
1roitsADDLT& -RANC_H_ su;~rf ·---exceeded wooled offerings three
U•o•tock b chon9o lld9 Oop l.
fort Worth 6, Tu 11
t:> one or more. ~o straight loads
6entlemen
of yearlings were available, but
Encln•od find my check or "'on oy order
for ~
. ~loue ship me postpa id
some $25.75 clippe:l lambs carried
( Amouot)
tho follow;'ll M1nOI• L•ri•l Ropes .luse
a yl·arling end which were usually
stote sito • nd price by chec~in9
c be ·
sorted off at a $2.50 per hundredlow. Number of rope • ordered
weight discount.
Choice handyweight wooled Colorado fed lambs started last week
30 THO l/8
at $27.75, extreme top for the
l3 TH D 7/16
- lHHD 7/'~16:--------period. Comparable quality but
•Free p i99 in strinq with • •'h ordt r of 2
h<'avier offerings in fleece stopped
or mote ropes.
at $27.35 at the close. l\i:>st wooled
Nam•
lambs sold at $26.50 to $27.50.
Addreu
Rulk shorn lambs brought $25 to
~fly
Slate
... $26.75.
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I RANCHMEN •
Steer Brings $367.93
Claude D<'cton of Barnhart last
week sold, through San Angelo
Livestock Auction, a steer weigh ing 1,415 pounds at 26 cent s a
pound or a gross of $367.90.
Armour an<l Company was the
buyer.
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Friday Special Stocker and F eeder Sale has been
discontinued until n ext fall
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$750 purse in each event - $400 in cutting contest
Midland, Texas-May31,June1-2-3-4
12-Months Clips At 70
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MIDLAND RODEO
Bar eback bro.nc rid ing - Sadd le bronc riding
Steer wrestling - Calf roping - Bull riding
W ild cow milking - Open cutting contest
IAbe Mayer Buys Texas
Two West Texas cowboys-John
Abe :.\!ayer, operatOl' of the
1>. Holleyman of Ozona and Dub Roswell Wool and Mohair C.lmPhillips of San Angelo-were pany, Roswell, New Mexico, has Fat Bull Brings $473
am:>ng big winners at the Ameri- bought the Len Mertz and Joe
Jim Bible of Canyon, Texas,
can Royal Rodeo in Kansas City Mayer clips of 12-months wool al sold a Holstein bull weighing
last week.
Mertzon and Big Lake, respec- 2,005 pounds through the Amarillo
Holleyman won the calf roping I tively, at 70 cents per pound. The Livestock Auction Company last
av<'rage with a total of 61.7 clips total about 10,000 fleeces, week at $22.60 to a packer buyer.
seconds on four calves. He also set Mayer said.
The anima) grossed $473.70.
a new 'record for the rodeo whtm
he tied one of h is calves in 11.3
seconds. Dub P h illips won the
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steer wrestling aver age w it h a
8488
total of 42.1 seconds on fhree
Coming in or leaving town on U. S. 67
steers.
Other calf roping winners in
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the average money were Jess
Livers. White Meat • Haif of Chicken
Goodspeed, Wetumka, Oklahoma,
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second, 73.6; Don McLaugblin,
at
r- .j1Fort Worth, third, 78 flat; Roy
Savage, Chico, Texas, 82.9.
Billy Meyers, Fort P ierre, South
Dakota, won the bareback bronc
rid ing average; Deb Copcnhaucr, l
SAM DECHEARO, Operator
a Wa!:hington cowboy, took the
saddle bronc riding; Gerald RoS an Angelo, Texas
1717 W. Beauregard
bert!' of Strong City, Kansas, won
the bull riding and the all-round
championship.
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K ANSAS CITY- (USDA)- T he
nation's grain markets last weel.
made further gains, influenced
principally by unfav:>rable prospects for 1950 crops. ,\.heat prices
advanced four to fiYe cents, corn
two to three cents, oats and barley two to five cents per bushel.
Grain sorghums were independently weak and lost about five
eents peT hun:lred pounds.
At the close, the basic scale d
trading i n Kansas City w a s
$2.30 1 ~ to $2.33 L2 f.lr 12 percent
protein wheat, and up to $2.3C;
for 13 percent pr otein. N o. 2 hard
winter v.iheat w as quoted a t
/
$2.44% in Fort Worth.
No. 2 yeDow corn sold at
around $1.50 per bushel in Chi cago, f;t. Louis and Kansas City.
Kew high prices for the cu-rrent
t!Op were paid at Kansas City.
No. 2 white oats were quoted
at 87'2 cents in Chicago, 86 to 8~1
in Kansas City. Grain sorghums
declined five to seven cents a'
the result of plentiful supplie~.
and ~o. 2 milo or kafir was quot<:d at $2.30 to $2.32 at Kansas
City and $2.20 to $2.25 at fort
Worth.
JS IT BRAHMALO OR BUFFALOMA ?- This bull cl-ilf
on t he J ohn F. Lane ranch at Alpine is out of a ·pet
buffalo cow and a Brahm an bull. Lane believes it may
be the fi rst such cro~ ever produced. The animal's head
looks predominantly Brahman, but its neck and !~haggy
body are more like those of a buffalo. However, it lacks
the hump which is characteristic of both ancestors.
West Texas Cowboys
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PAGE THREE
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
Corriedale Fleece Wins
California Wool Show
-· ~about 2,000 Aberdeen-Angus
To Sell At Auction Here June 7
Approximately 2,000 f emales and
50 register ed bulls will be offered
in the Sixth Annual Distribution
S a l e of Commercial AberdeenAngus Cattle here Wednesday,
June 7, off icials of the sale announced this week.
The annual event, which has
become established as one of t he
most successful sales of its kind
'" ~n the nation, is sponsored by the
Texas Aberdeen - Angus Associa~ tion.
J. L. Hill, Jr., Stamford, sale
manager, has advised that the sale
will begin at San Angelo Livestock Auction Company at 10 a.m.
During the morning, females will
be offered. The sale will r ecess
between noon and 1 p. m., and
then the bulls will be sold before
the female sale is resumed.
Heifer calves, bred and o~en
heifers and cows, and cows With
calves at side will be included in
the female offe~ng. These cattle
need not be r egtster ed, but sponsor s of the sale are making every
effort to offer buyers the utmost
~" •in quality com~ercial cows a~d
heifers, Hill sa1d. All bulls wlll
be registered and hand-picke~ for
their value as herd sires. su1table
for registered herds or h1gh-quality commercial herds.
Luth~r T ..McClung of Fort
Worth IS pres1dent of the sponsori~g . Texas Aberde~n-A.ngus AssoC'latlon; Howard R1ch IS. se~retary
in cnarge of the assoc1atlon offices at Sabinal. The sale com~it-
tee includes Hill, Clyde Bradford
of Happy, and Henry Moor e of
Veribest.
Among consignors who have al
ready entered females in the sale
are J. M. Ashcroft, Stamford;
J. L. Hill, Jr .... Stamfordi Harr js
Mullins, Dalhart;. Whitaker a,nd
Steadman, Junction• J ack Canning, Eden;. Williamson and Dickie, Lipan; Scott Hartgrove, Paint
Rock; H'. E .. McCulloch, San Angelo; Ewing Baker, Jr., Eastlan.P :.
Floyd Mills, Sudan, Kans.; Morris
Stansberry, Eden; Sol Kelly, San
Angel9; and Bill Wade, SonpJ:a1
Bull consignors i.nci;Ide T. ~
Edwards, Denton; J ohnson and
Moore, San Angelo; Ashcroft and
Hill, Stamford; G. I. Steadman,
Eola; L. S. Morrison and Company, George West; Luther T.
McClung, Fort Worth; J . B. Canning, Eden; R. E. Wood, Santa
' Anna· Tom Northen, Holland; Dr.
M. L:' Yarbrough, Greenville; J ess
B. Alford, Paris; W. E. Roane,
Valley View· Dick Fowler Bradley Oklaho~a • A 1b e r t 'Thanfol,
H ~kell· Grote' Angus Farm, Ma~
son; H;rman Allen, San Angelo;
Gerloff and Moore, Temple: H. 0.
Polk, Lampasas; Randall Campbell, Jonesboro; Shahan and Webb,
Brackettville; J. M. Greenwood,
Cross Plains; Joe T. Brown and
So~ ~mpl2;. Dr. Harry A. Logsdon, Colorado City; Floyd K.
Mills, Sudan, Kansas; and H. F.
McCulloch, San Angelo.
Use our classified ads for results.
For Beat Reaulta On Your
Cattle, Hoga and Sheep
Bill 'em
FORT WORTH, TEXAS
CLINT SHIRLEY, Sheep
B~N SHIRLEY, Cettte
VERN ALLEN, Calf
RUFUS WELCH, Hogs
A fleece from a purebr ed Cor range r am owned by
Charl~s A. ltuestes.. Newcastle,
Califor nia, was judged grand
champion of the annual California
Wool Show at Sacrament<> early
this month. This fleece won t he
coveted $1,500 prize· awarded by
the Palace Hotel.
Wesley Wooden, Davis, exhibit, f\d the fleece with the heaviest
·estimated clean yield and received
. the trophy given by Adams and
Leland of Boston. This fleece was
from a Corriedale, also.
The ~rophy awarded by the
National Association of Wool
¥anufacturers for the most valueb.le fleece from the manufacturer's viewpoint was won by
a. T. Spencer· of. Winters with a
Romeldale fleece.
~iedale
Noted Rodeo Performers
Open ,W estern Shop Here
SALE MANAGER-J. L. Hill, J r., Stamford ranchm.an
and Angus breeder, is sale manager for the Sixth Annual Aberdeen-Angus Distribution Sale of commercial
heilfel"S' and registered bulls to be held in San Angelo
June 7. Over 2,000 head will be put on sale.
LIVESTOCK SPRAYS
Building Activity Said
To Indicate Prosperity
For Several More Years
Unless unions price themselves
out of a job, building construction
is expected to continue extremely
active for the next four or five
years, and that means continued
general prosperity and good livestock prices for that long, Mar k
W. Pickell, editor of the Livestock
and Grain Bulletin in Chicago,
commented recently.
He says that the dominating
influence on our peace time economy is activity or lack of it in th.e
building trades-not the general
level of farm prices as some
people claim.
In 1920, he says, there was need
for active building but cost of
construction went so high that
the industry was stymied and economic panic resulted. Thus far,
- The
ANGUS
Their popular.ity with breede rs and
feeders make s them hard to buy-but
• you can get the right kind on an open
market at the
Sixth Annual Distribution Sale of
Commercial Aberdeen-Angus
a.t the San Angelo Livestock Auction Company
San Angelo, Texas- June 7, 1950
Sale begins 10:00 A. M.
2,000 Females
50 Registered Bulls
Mr. and Mrs. Tate-r Decker,
nationally famous rodeo personalities, have opened a western
wear shop, Sta's, at 414 South
Adams Street in San Angelo.
They formerly lived in Phoenix,
Arizona. Mrs. Decker is managing
the shop here while Tater competes in rodeos; at the end of the
season, he plans to return here
and buy a home and a place for
his horses.
H igh quality commer cial heifer calves •
ope n & bre d h eifer s - cows & calves.
nothing comparable has happened
DDT - BHC - Lindane
since the Second World War. In
Toxaphene • Marlate
January, construction reached 201
percent of "normal" for an allPOWER SPRAYERS
time high; i n February and
WRITE US FOR PRICES
March it was 183 percent. April
Wholesale and Retail
permits set a new record, and it
appears likely the rest of the
JONES-WALKER
year, and the coming few years,
will see continued above-normal
Farm Chemical Co.
activity.
Box 493
Phone 17l!l
Demand for meat, therefore,
PLAINVIEW,
TEXAS
should continue good. If new construction keeps up its pace of the
first quarter of this year, all
business records will be broken.
Figures on numbers of cattle
on feed April 1 in Illinois, Iowa
and Nebraska show 905,000 weighing over 600 pounds this year as
compared with 1,151,000 head that
weight last year; 398,000 under
600 pounds this year compared
with 263,000 last year; and 506,000
calves this year compared with
230,000 last year. Thus, while the
total number of cattle and calves
on feed is larger this year, ihe
Our Sa lesmen Are:
number on full feed for quick
A. L. CONNOR
marketing this year is 250,000
Las Vegas, New Mexico
head smaller.
E. N. JACKSON
Which means long-fed cattle on
Lordsburg, New Mexico
the markets should be fewer, and
J
IM R. KING
prices higher, for the next 60
Hobbs, New Mexico
days, but after August marketTED POWERS
ings should be heavier and the
Carlsbad, New Mexico
market bearish, particularly if a ,
normal number of grass cattle
come to market.
Pickell advises his Corn Belt
readers to be conservative in buying feeder cattle. "We definitely
do not advise paying above $22
laid down in the Corn Belt for
feeders for fall delivery," he says.
"And they could be much cheaper
than that."
•
THE
SALT SUPPLY
COMPANY
CARLSBAD, N. M.
See Sam Roberts at Bledsoe and ·
Rudd warehouse for offers on cat- [
tle, sheep, goats, hogs, hides, dead :
(Adv.)
wool and pecans.
Office: 104-C West Fox
Phone 1137-J or LD 4
P .. 0. Box 911
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San Angelo Livestock
Auction Company
San Angelo, Texas
MONDAY SALE-Cattle and Hogs
Facilities for branding, dehor ning
Carefully selected
SPONSORED BY THE TEXAS ABERDEEN· ANGUS ASSOCIATION
Luther T. McClung, Fort Worth, president - Howard Rich_, Sabinal, secretary
J. L. Hill, Jr., Stamford, sale manager
·
Sale Committee: Clyde Bradford, Happy; Henry Moore, Veribest; J. L. Hill, Jr., Stamford
SATURDAY SALE- Sheep, Hogs, Horaes
Certified scales available day or night
H. E. McCulloch
E. D. Webster
Oscar Wyatt
Clayton Webster
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK W'EEKLY
PAGE FOUR
Dressed Meats Mostly
Steady To Higher, Lamb
Irregular In New York
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
Neal Lambs Bring 243-"
A. E. and Harbon Neal of San
Angelo sold a load of clipped
lambs on the Kansas City market
NEW YORK-(USDA)-Meat last week that weighed 106 pounds
production here last week was and brought '24.75 per hundredslightly reduced in mo!lt divisions weight.
except calf, which showed a slight
increase. Trading was slow to
fair, with the best demand going Fat Cattle Up 50 Cents,
for gooo steer hindquarters, and Stockers Steady To 50
cow and bulr beef.
Compared with the previous Higher At Lubbock Sale
LUBBOCK-Cattle recetpts at
week's clo~:e, steer hinds and ribs
sold J<trong to $1 higher, with the Lubbock Auction and Commisaskmg prices sharply above that; sion Company last week totaled
kosher beef $1 to $3 higher, cows 2,057 cattle. The market finished
and bull beef fully steady, hind- Thursday fully 50 cents above the
saddles of veal unchanged, kosher first of the week on butcher
forcsaddles most I y $2 higher; classes, steady to 50 up on better
lamb irregularly $1 lower to $1 stockers and feeders, and $10
higher; pork cuts mostly $1 to $2 higher on cows and calves.
higher, spots $3 up on skinned
Common a nd medium slaughter
hams and as much as $5 higher steers and yearlings $24·27, good
on regular trimmings.
$27-30.50; beef cows $18.50-20,
Commercial to choice old crop odd head to $21.50; canners and
lamb carcasses closed from $47 to cutters $14.75 to $18.50, light
$55, spring lamb sorts $54, mainly shelly canners $13.75 and below
CATTLE BUYER AND PILOT-AI Silverman, left, cattle dealer and feeder of Deep
$56 to $62 and better in instances. Medium and good sausage bulls
River, Iowa, flew to Llano last week to start receiving around 1,900 steer yearling_::;
$21-23, cutter and common $19-21,
Colorado Calves Said
light dairy kinds $17.50-19, good
he had contracted from Ben Wallis at 27 cents. N. G. Roth of Oskaloosa is the pilot.
fat bull calves and yearlings $21·
Contracted At 26 Cents
Silverman
said he planned to sell all but about 400 to 5 00 of the Texas yearlings.
According to the Denver Record 25.50. Good and choice fat calves
Stockman, a leading Denver cattle $26-28.50, common and medium
cattle or anything else. As fas~
feeding company has contracted $24-25.50.
as some inventor figure!. out a
Good to choice stocker steer
1,000 mixed cahes from Tom Dilway to do something faster or
calves
$26.50-30,
outstanding
kind
lingham, Las Animas County
cheaper with machinery, labor
ranchman, for fall delivery at 26 to $31; heifers $1.50·2.50 below
figures out a way to ketp the cost
steers; good to choice steer yearcents a pound straight across.
of labor high. Maybe that's the
lings $25·27.50, plain kinds $22.50only way to keep a lot of people
BJJ .A. Contented Cowmon
25.75, culls $21 down; good stock·
Buys Ewes At Hope
from being out of work. Derned if
er
cows
$18-20,
young
cows
to
$22,
As was to be expected, John I know.
Paul Coffin of Artesia, New
Mexico, bought 500 shorn ewes, cows and calves $195 to $250, was ready with a lecture on the
"But I know how to keep these
solid mouths wtth a few broken mixed breeds $185 to $230, com- railroad strike this week.
firemen
from ever going on a
"I don't claim to know person- strike again. I don't know why
mouths on them, from Robert mon and inferior kinds down to
M. M. (Marion) EDWARDS
$160,
culls
lower.
ally
anything
about
railroading
in
Parks at l!ope at $10 per head.
I'm so much smarter than people
these modern times," he began,
that own railroads, but evidently
"except that it takes just as long
Cattle Market Steady,
1 am.
CEDAR POSTS
for a trainload of stock to go
"If I owned a railroad and the
Stronger In Instances
from Texas to Illinois as it did
Nick's Twin Moutain
help started to go on a strike, I'd
when
car
manufacturers
was
Cedar Poat Yard
By W. D. Reese
At Amarillo Auction
bragging about their automobiles immediately make 'em all vicC'
e CORNER POSTS
A'!\fARILLO-The cattle market bC'ing able to run 50 miles an presidents. You never heard of a
Big Spring: Marion Edward~
e LINE POSTS
\\as about steady, spots stronger, hour down hill.
vice president going on a strike, father of famed calf roper, ha
e STAYS
last week at the Amarillo Live·
layed off ranching for the pas
did you?"
"The happiest man I ever knew
stock Auction Company, with
Any Size - n•e Hcrt•e 'Em
year to build an ideal ranch hom
See Sam Roberts at Bledsoe and for wife, Aurelia, on their eight
around 5,700 head selling Monday walt an old boy _that wor.ked on. a
WE DELIVER ANYWHERE
and Tuesday. Butcher steer s sold ro_ad I U!<C'? to nde once tn awhile I Rudd warehouse for offers on r.nt- section Home Place.
Compwre 011r Price"
~24 to $27.50, fat bulls $19 to $22'. \~tlh a ~tr~ng of ~attl~. He was a tle, sheep, goats, hogs, hides, dead
Having been a calf roper i1
HOMER G. NICKEL
(Adv,) past years and having a son, Son
fat cows $18 to $21, canner and ftrcman w1th a b1g gnn,_ a ~tron_g wool and pecans.
PHONE 7354'
SAN ANGELO. TElCAS
back, and a powerful pnde tn h1s
cutter cows $14 to $17.
ny Edwards, as top performer
7 Milu Wo•l of S•n An9olo on Hwy . 67
"'Tho li9 lond Tr•il'"
Stocker steer calves went at $n~ ability to take a No. 2 scoop and
today, ~farion Edwards is b l
keep
an
engine
right
at
the
blowATTENTION
BUYERS
to $30, heifer calves $24 to $27;
rights a calf roping enthusiast
and CONSIGNORS!
stocker steer yearlings $24 to $27, in$!:-UP point as long as he was
.Marion is also a Brahman cattl•
in
the
cab.
heifer yearlings $23 to $25. Red.
enthusiast and is running Brah
"As I understand it now, a
Special Sale of
roan and mixed-breed stockers sold
ntan cattle on his ranch at tht
largely at $23 to $26. Stocker fireman on a Diesel engine has a
prrsent time. He is a new user o
BREEDING
EWES
All Classes of Cattle
cows bulked at $15 to $19, cows very important job: He's supposed
Swift's Mineral Supplement ane
and c~lves $185 to $230, with to turn the windshield wiper on in
Complete Facilities
has found that his cattle ''go for'
Thursday, May 25
plainer kinds around $150 to $190. case of ruin. Otherwise, a bunch
Swift's Minerals.
• FEEDING
of automatic valves and so forth
at
• DIPPING
SAN ANGELO WOOL CO.
keep the right amount of fire
San Angelo Livestock
under the boiler.
Distributors of Swift Feeds Clnd
• BRANDING
Auction Company
Mineral Supplemer!t!1 ·
"If they was to ask me how
For transient livestock
Phone 6004
504 S. Oakes come this railroad strike, I'd say
San Angelo, Texas
CUSTOM FEED LOTS
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
it's purely psychological. These
fireman have got a subconscious
RANCH LOANS
fear that they ain't necessary.
San Angelo's Most Exclusive
They feel insecure or something.
Mexican Restaurant
Consequently, to impress on evel")"Roswell, New Mexico
FINE
FOODS * STEAKS
body how necessary they are, they
MEXICAN CURIOS
say they're working too hard and
Established 1890
need some help.
Where The Best People Eat
Member
CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO
"Of course, they don't stop to
The Best Food
Feder•l Deposit Insurance Corpor•tioft
P. 0. Box 545
Phone 6231
worry about the effect of the
oeaumont, Tex.-San Angelo, Tex
strike on the profits of the road
E. U. and
they're working for, how many
ptoplt> will get mad at the rail- and see us for
Custom Drenching • Spraying -Vaccinating road and figure out a way to use
trucks. You can find people right
Livestock and Ranch Supplies
now that move trainloads of sheep
Whether you're buying or selling - West Texas Livestock Medicine Co.
or cattle across the country withIn
"Next to the St. Angelus Garage"
town or country - - out using the railroads.
Dempsey Montgomery, Owner
Phone 8388
SAN ANGELO
"I ain't opposed to unions as
long as they don't move in on the
1 anch business and talk my bulls
into going on a sit-down strike.
But just standing off and looking
at the deal from here, it seems
to me somrhody ought to get some
of these union leaders out to one
side and tell 'em about the goose
that laid the 14-karat eggs.
"When you build a house, you
pay for a Jot of unnecessary labor.
CATTLE aalea every TUESDAY
Same thing goes for shipping
and THURSDAY, 9:30 a. m.
Unregistered Bull In
A Hotel Lobby
Takes Year Vacation To Buill
Ultra-Modern Ranch Homd
Order Buying
Boo key-Williams
Cattle Co.
FIRST
NATIONAL
BANK
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fo11 Cohf Jeqf
Lubbock Auction &
Commission Co.
TEXAS
Livestock marketing Association
e
Selling 2,000 to 3,000 head each week
Market broadcast from ri ng at 11 a.m., Tuesday and Thurs·
day - Also reporting" major markets at 2:20 p. m., Monday
through Friday over Station KSEL, Lubbock - 950 on dial.
J. M. MULLINS
CLAUD KEETON
13th and A Yenue D
H. G. LAWSON
FRANK PARRIS
Telephone 4387
1200 Purebred Angus
calve~
for fall delivery, all one
brand, average weight about
400 pounds, about 650 heifers,
550 stePrs; sell either or both
at $.30 per pound, with reasonable weights.
or write
Call
James A. Gowdy
Bun Lewis
Arch, New Mex.
7655, Clovis
CATTLE
Jim Mitchell • George Shepherd - John Shell
Willie Helm - Jas. Adams - Roy Barton (Brady)
SHEEP
Bob Chandler - Roy Boswell - Roy .Barton (Brady)
FORT WORTH, TEXAS
Telephone LD 49 or 6-3177
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
PAGE FIVE
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
I Butcher Cattle Steady
..Many Growing States
• Reported Sold Almost
Out Of New Wool Clip
~
Late news of the national wool
situation as reported by the Boa_ton Commercial Bultetin and other
papers has it that maw i'r.nr><>rtant wool-growing, states have
virtually sold out of the 1950 clip.
Wyoming, among the Northwestern and far Western states, ts
~aid to have sold a smaller percentage of the new clip than the
others.
The Commercial Bulletin last
week estimated 25 to 30 percent
!,{lf Texa!;' 12-months wool already
has sold, and that no more than a
- million pounds of eight-months Js
left.
Various observers recently have
called attention to the growing
demand for %-blood wool. This
had been prophesied for some
time on the basis that the shortage of fine wool and consumers'
rellistance to the consequent rise
in it:; price would cause manufacturers to turn more to the coaraer
grade.
CLOVIS, N. :\f.-Butcher catt:e
sold steady to strong and stockers
steady at Ranchers and Farmer3
Livestock Sales Company here last
week. Receipts totaled 2,305 head.
Good to choice fat steer yearlings brought $25.50-27, medium to
good $23-25; good to choice fat
heifers $23.50-25, medium to gJod
'22-23; good to choice fat cowa
$18.75 to $20.75, few heiferettes
to $22, medium and good $1718.50; canners and cutters $H.o016; good to choice fat bulls $2021, few to $22.50, medium and
Ught kinds $18.50-20; good to
chotec fat calves $28.50-29.50, few
to $30.50, medium to good $25-27,
dairy type calves and yearlings
$19.e0-21.
Good to choice stocker steor
yearlings $2~ to $26.50, heifers
$23-25; good to choice light steer
calve!~ $29.50-31.50, heifers mostly
$26.~0-28; mixed breed steer yearlings $22.50 to $23.50, reds and
roans $22-24, heifers $20-22.50
and mixed breed cows $17.50-Hl.50.
Good to choice young cows $19.50$21.50.
Ship Steers To Kansas
Bledsoe and Rudd have received
a string of three-year-old steers
from the Doc Friend Estate at
~1!)0 per head and shipped them
to Kansas grass.
WOOL and
MOHAIR
handled on commission
Buys Brahman Steers
Fonnie Woodward of Fort
b~ught two loads of
Brahman s t e e r yearlings from
John Hardgrave of Sander~on at
20 cents per pound; these will ~c
l<.aded Saturady and sent to Glrvin, Texas.
~tockton
21.50, fat cows $18-19, canners I Hays And Pinson Buy
and cutters $14-17; stocker steer
calves $29 down, stocker yearling Ewes In Uvalde Area
steers to $26.50, comparable hcifHays and Pinson of San Angelo :;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;~~~~~~~
At San Angelo Livestock Auc- <>rs $1 less. Cows and calves sold recently bought 1,800 ewes, broken, •
spreader and solid mouths, from
EWES FOR SALE
tion last Saturday the market was at $180 to $240 per pair.
Millard Bryson of Uvalde for
steady to slightly stronger on
August delivery; they're bred to
3000 Choice Rambouillet
4,000 sheep. Spring lambs brought Boston Headlines Point
Panama bucks for fall lambing.
$23-25.50, fat clipped lambs $21Yearling Ewes
They also bought 700 ewes of the
23, stocker clippers $16-18, ngeu To Higher Wool Market
Weigh over 90 pounds
muttons $9-13, old bucks $!!-10,
Headlines in the Commercial ~arne age~. bred to Suffolk bucks
fleshy ew·es $10-12.50, breeding Bulletin, published in Boston, last for fall lambing, from George
$23 Per Head
Raney of Uvalde.
ewes $13, aged ewes and lambs week included these:
"London J. 0. Wool Demand
Last week, Hays and Pinson de$15-20 per pair, good ewes and
JOHNNY MARTIN
lambs $20-26 per pair.
Stresses World Stringency"
livered 600 ewes and lambs, solid
At the cattle sa I e ~Iondny,
"Inferior Styles Taken Eagerly mouths and spreaders, to Albert
Phone 7240-3
prices were strong and the mark<>t Like New-Clip Off~rings-Brad­ Kirk of Scott City, Kansas, at $22
SAN ANGELO, TEXAS
active on 800 head. Fat steers ford Sees Costs Approaching 1920 for the solid mouths and $19.50
and yearlings brought $24-26, fnl Peak Levels-Study By C. L. for the spreaders. These were
calves $25-28.50, fat bulls $19- Harlan Points To Thre<' Years shipped to Missouri.
More Of World Needs Above
Currert Production"
Of the Boston market for do- Few Goats Sell Mostly
mestic wool, headlines informed:
Steady At San Antonio.
"Spot Sales Limited By Supply"
Vaccines, Medicinals,
Meager goat receipts at San
"Business Sbll ReCiects Wide Antonio last Monday sold mostlj
Instruments and Supplies
Variety 0 f Demand- %-Blood steady. Common and medium kinds
OR LEASE
for Livestock
Class Notably Active"
brought $10.50 to $11 per hun"Receipts From the West Are dredweight, with a few weighing
These are the kind you're
215 TAYLOR STREET
Delayed By Storms But Unsold around 100 pounds to $11.50.
looking forAntarillo, Texas
Share Of the Clip Dwindling"
Most kids brought $5 to $6 per
Native
Texa:; Brah·mans
"A 1 1 Foreign Markets Hold head, with a few at $6.50 to $7
Any number-from a pickup
Rising Trends With Offerings Of each.
the Season Running Down"
load to a carload-vaccinated
for shipping fever.
Sheep Market Active
A,n d Stronger, Cattle
Steady At S. A. Auction
I
I
•
ROSWELL
WOOL & MOHAIR
COMPANY
Roswell, New Mexico
LLANO LAMBS-Fred Bsll of San Angefc received about 4,000 lambs, including
these from Damon and Phillip Smith of Llano last weekend. They a\'eraged about
95 pounds ~nd \\'ere shipped to Missouri to go on grass.
I
State Distributors for
ELASTRATORS andt
CUTTER VACCINES
Abe Mayer, J:r., Owner
To Strong, Stockers
Steady At R & F Market
O.M.FRANK~IN S£RUM
Roping Calves
Co.
For Sale
1~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~iiiiiiiiiiiiiiii~
I
Come to Uvalde!
. wher e livestock . .
BUYERS
and
SELLERS
meet
Every Saturday
to trade on
Cattle -Sheep- Goats- Hogs
Aldwell, Wardlaw Lambs
Bring ZS And 26 At K. C.
J. F. Daniels of the Kansas
City Stockyards Company reported this week that Lea Aldwell
and Jake Wardlaw of San Angelo
each had a carload of clipped
lambs on the Kansas City market
Monday. Wardlaw's lambs averaged 97 pounds and Aldwell's
averaged 96; they sold for 26
cents a pound, with the yearlings
out at 25.
Delivers Muttons
Edwin Pinson of San Angelo
recently delivered 650 aged muttons which he sold to M. L. Brimhall of Farmington, N<>w Mexico,
at 12 and 12th cents a pound, and
375 solid and spreader mouth ewes
and lambs at $23.50 each in the
wool. These sheep were loaded at
Mason and Lometa and billed to
Colorado.
at
R.egistered
j
'
"'
UVALDE LIVESTOCK
SALES COMPANY
RAMBOUILLET
SHEEP
Roy Kothmann, Owner
UVALDE
TEXAS
Phone 5420 or 169
YEARLING EWES
FOR SALE
Call or 1vrite
2250 head - $23 per head
LEMUEL JONES
Chas. Moorhouse
Phone 54
HARPER, TEXAS
Phone 34
Benjamin, Texas
FOR TOP PRICES - CON SIGN YOUR CATILE
and other livestock to the
TULIA LIVESTOCK AUCTION
EVERY FRIDAY
Norman Burk, Owner
Bert Ehresman, Auctioneer
Sale starts at 12 :30
Phone 741-Wl or 741-W2
TULIA, TEXAS
SALE
THURSDAY
Mr. Stockman!
SALE
FRIDAY
Take advantage of the beat market in the
Southwest . • • Consign your cattle to
Ranchers & Farmers
Livestock Sales Co.
Bonded for your protection
Box 454
CLOVIS, N. M.
Phone 4431
Under Federal Inspection and Packer,q and Slpckyards Act
DEMPSTER JONES
Ozona, T exaa
C. 0. NORTHCUTT
7436
RAY LEACH
7205
FRED
DAUGHERTY
Ycrrd Foremalt
6992
R. W. NORTHCUTT
4700
EBB ROBERTS
7261
THURRDAY, MAY 18, 1950
WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
PAGE SIX
Early Spring Lamb Situation Looks
Good Over Most Of Nation, BAE Says
The condition of early lambs
was generally favorable on May I,
in spite of cool weather aoo slow
growth of pastures and ranges in
many sections, the Bureau of
Agricultural Economics reported
last week· Moisture and feed condition in much of the Texas sheep
country were improv!:d by recent
rainfall.
In California, rainfall in late
March and early April was beneficial to feed growth, permitting
the early lamb crop to develop
very favorably. In the Sacramento
Valley, timely Tainfall has assured good feed supplies, and
early lambs have developed very
well.
In the Pacific Northwest, Jambs
have been somewhat retarded by
the cold weather and lack of new
green pasture feeds. Even so,
producers expect a large part of
the c r o p t o reach slaughter
weights in contrast with last year
when a fairly large part of the
crop waa marketed aa feeder
lambs. In the Southeastern states,
cool dry weather bas been favorable for lambs but has retardec
feed development to some extent.
Marketings of early lambs in
California will be later than last
FIRST
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BANK
SONORA, TEXAS
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OVER $300,000.00
Fifty Years Sert•ill{l The
Stockman's Paradi•t
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Ibyyeardrywhenweather.
they were accelerate<!
The proportion
of California lambs that will be
marketed at slaughter weight will
be greater than a year ago. Marketings should reach a peak late
in May.
In Texas the outlook for early
lambs was improved by better
f e e d supplies. Marketings of
Texas yearling lambs were heavy
during April, but they are expected to be in smaller volume
during May. T he movement of
early · Jambs in the Southeastern
states will be earlier than usual
due to the earlier lambing time.
In the Pacific Northwest, marketings are expected to. be somewhat
later than usual because of the
rather unfavorable s p r i ng
weather.
Conditions in the early lambing states about May 1 are reported as follows:
Texas: Feed conditions over
most of the Plateau area were
greatly improved by mid-April
rainfall. Early Jambs are making
good progress with the better feed
supplies. The peak movement to
market will occur in late May and
early June, about the usual time.
The movement of yearling lambs
was probably at a peak during
the first week of May. Because
of the heavy April marketing of
yearling lambs, the movement
during May will probably be
smaller than last year. A substantial number of yearling lambs
are reported to be in feeder flesh·
Additional rainfall is needed in
much of the important sheep
country. A strong demand for
ewe lambs for replacement purposes is reported.
Arizona: Practically all of thf'
early lambs have been marketed.
Early lambs made good weights
but the crop was somewhat smaller than last year.
California: Rainfall in late
March and early April over most
of the f'arly lambing sections produced good pastures, except in the
desert area of Southern Cali
fornia. Early lambs developed
well and reached desirable marketing weights. I n the Sacramento
Valley, where the bulk of the crop
is yet to be marketed, rainfall
during early May a~sured gooc'
fC('d and the lambs continued to
de v e 1 o p favorably. Markcting7
should reach a peak later thi~
month. The number of lambs mar·
keted as feeder lambs will br
relatively small .
Southeastern States: L a m b r
continued to develop satisfactoril)
during April. Somewhat cool dry
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FROM WICHITA-Les Cooper, left, and J . C. Nunna lly of t h e J. C. Nunnally Cattle Company, Wichita, Kansas, were in Llano last weekend to look at a string of
yearling heifers. They decided against. ihe deal and when last seen were heading
homeward without any cattle.
weather has tended to retard the
development of pasture feed, but
lambs have not been hindered to
any marked extent.
Missouri: The condition of early
lambs is good. Due to 4'arlier
lambing, movement to market will
be earlier than last year. Pastures
have developed slowly and lamb...
have made somewhat less gain
than is normally expected. Death
losses have been about normal
with the smaller losses late In the
season, largely off-setting heavier
losses earlier.
Idaho: W~ather during April
continued cool and the growth of
range and pasture feed was retarded- However, Jambs have made
reasonably good progress and on
May 1 were in good condition.
Oregon: Continued cold weather
during April retarded the growth
of grass, with ranges and pastures providing limited forage.
The progre~!< of the early lamb
crop has bet>n hindered somewhat
by cold weather, but generally
lambs made good gains durfng
the month. Marketings will likely
be somewhat delayed. At pr esent,
product>rs expect to finish a relatively high proportion of lambs to
slaughter weights.
Northwest States: In the Pacific
Northwest, cool weather during
April has retarded the development of range and pasture feed&
Lambs have remained in goo<l
condition, although the gains have
been less than normally expt>ctt>d.
Marketings will be somewhat later
than usual, but the number of
lambs marketed as feeders will
probably be less than last year.
Whether They Sell Well
Or Ill Depends On Flesh
Walton Kothmann of Menard
last week was bemoaning the
vicissitudes of this spring's clipped lamb market.
Last Tuesday, he marketed at
Fort Worth 256 lambs weighing
90 pounds and 617 weighing 106
pounds at 24% cents; next day
he scld 400 head weighing 90
pounds that brought 25 cents and
500 head weighing 87 pounds that
brought 21 1'2 cents with a few
culls out at 16 to 18 cents.
Thursday, he sold 400 head
averaging 91 pounds that brought
20 cents a pound.
We are offering for sale a
group of registered
ANGUS HEIFERS
that \\-ill be ready to breed soon.
We also have a few young
bulls to sell.
JOHN LATTIMORE
Oktaha, Oklahoma
T elephone Muskogee 7262-W
Wharton Wins At Vernon
At the Ver non rodeo last week,
Ray Wharton of Bandera took
first average money in calf roping, with John D. Holleyman of
Ozona second, Toots Mansfield of
Big Spring third and Sonny Edwards of Odessa fourth.
Halbert'a Hornless
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For Sale At All Times
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Sonora, Texas
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hear our auction sale
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On Ballinger Highway and Santa Fe Spur
GEORGE FOSTER RUST
Phone 4145
ARTHUR BROOME
San Angelo, Te::u.a
~
Boston Market Reflects Strong
Demand For All Domestic Wools
BOSTON-(USDA)- Demand
for greasy domestic worsted wools
continued strong last week in the
Bost;>n wool market, and a good
volume of wool was moved. All
grades of territory wools were
sold in fair to good weights, while
graded %s and "A.-blood fleece
wools sold moderat~ly us available.
There was good business, also,
in turnover of scoured woolen
wools. A substantial volume of
11£0Ured domestic pullcxl 58s was
sold, while a fair weight of 58- 60s was moved. The noil market
continued very active, and all
grades were sold as obtainable
at firm prices·
Business in the territory states
wa~ slow, as most wools have been
sold. Only scattered clips r emained unsold in Texas and in
the territory states.
Sales were held in Australia
last week at Melbourne and Syd-
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HEREFORDS
P.ange Bulls - Top Heifers
High Quality - Reaaonable Cost
GEORGE W . GLASS
MIDLAND, T EXAS
ney, with the Continent, local
mills and Bradford the main operatonl. Early last week there was
considerable variation in quotations between shippers for 64s
and 64-70s, as prices ranged from
$1.75 to $1.90, clean basis, American yield, in bond.
In the sale at Napier, New
Zealand, t h e market advanced
slightly as Bradford and Continental interests we re the principal
operators. Of 6,800 bales offered
at the sale in Port Elizabeth,
South Africa, there was a total
clearance with the market much
firmer. All South American mar kets reported advances for all
classes of wool.
Fleece wools: A fair volume of
graded ~s fleece wools sold in
the open market at clean prices
ranging from $1.12 to $1.17,
while graded "A.-blood sold from
$1.05 to $1.08. Adverse weather
conditions prevailed in the fleece
wool states. Various prices, from
50 to 55 cents, were reported paid
by country buyers for medium
wools, while 55 cents to GO cents
was reported paid for fine wool.
Territory wools: A large volume of graded good French combing and staple territory wool was
.1 sold at an estimated clean price
up to $1.70, while average to good
French combing in good volume
brought $1.65· Graded 1 ~-blood
Oregon wool sold in fair weight
around $1.52, while· graded ~s
territory in good volume sold
around $1.25, clean basis. Original
bag New Mexico, Colorado and
Arizona wools, amounting to a
fair volume, were sold locally at a
clean price of about $1.65.
A large volume of original bag
wo·:>l sold .in Oregon at a sealed
bid sale for 62~ cents, grease
basis, and estimated to cost about
$1.70, clean basis, delivered Boston. Another large accumulation
in Montana was offered at a
sealed bid sale, and was sold at
66 1~ cents, grease basis. This was
a mixed grading line, and dealers
estimated the clean cost, delivered
Boston as follows: $1.65 for fine;
$1.55 for 'h -blood; $1.35 for %s;
and $1.25 for the 14-blood after
grading. Most clips in the territory states have now been bought
up.
Texas wools: A small quantity
of original bag good 12-months
Texas wool was sold in the local
market from $1.70 to $1.75, clean
basis, while a fair to good weight
of greasy eight months Texas was
sold at a clean price of about
$1.55. Grease prices of from 70
to 73 cents were paid in Texas
for original bag 12-months wools,
while skirted wools at Del Rio
brought from 85 to 90 cents,
grease basis·
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P ROPERTY
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802
ftaw land to producing groves.
Will arcept trade-ins on property.
For inspection trip see R. S. (Bob)
Con!lign your stock cattle to the
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Angelo, Texas.
LIVESTOCK HAULERS
CO., Anthony, Kansas. Located in
the heart of the Wheat Pasture
COLORADO RANCHES
Belt of the U. S. and 50 miles
IN SAN ANGELO
f rom the great F lint Hills and
Looking for a RANCH ? See Bill Osage country. Sales every TuesDEUPREE BROWN
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Office Naylor Hotel
stO<'k Co. Offices : Klein H otel
316. References: Citizens National
Phones 6177--6438
Building, W alsenburg, Colorado.
Bank and Fir st National Bank.
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RANCH LAND
Of fice Naylor Hotel
I can kill your prickly pear for
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$1 to $3 per acre cost of material ;
Large or s mall, s traight livestock, one ma n can spray twenty acres
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have them. W rite for details.
take that loss from Coyotillo and
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506 Main St.
Walsenburg, Colo.
IRA GREEN STOCK
Office St. Angelus Hotel
Bob Weston, ranch representative
MEDICI NE C().
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310 S. Chadbourne
San Angelo
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of
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WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY
THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
· - · · - - - - - at $5 for eaeh lltlbs.cription. (PLEASE PRINT or WRITE PLAINLY)
Wool Shortage Buys Yearling Ewes
Beginning To Be
Clear To Everyone Coming Up
Doug Kirby of Ozona bough
two loads of yearling ewes fr.:>m
Bill Childress, al~o of Ozona, for
shipment to Kentucky buyers.
J. A. Hill, writing in the curissue of the Wyoming Wool
Grower, makes the following comments on the wool situation:
It is beginning to be clear to
everyone that wool is unusually
scarce in this country and that
very little will be available from
foreign countries until after Sept~mber. The small Jots being offered at present in the British
dominions is commanding higher
prices week by week.
T he limited supply is shown by
the estimate of stocks of apparel
wool in the United States as published in the weekly wool trade
reports of the Associates of the
New York Cotton Exchange. The
amoutlt of apparel wool inside the
U. S. on May 1, including the
J 950 clip which is shorn or to be
shorn, was 202 million pounds.
This is the lowest supply on this
date at any time since the record
was started in 1930.
The total domestic shorn clip i"
estimated at 86 million pounds on
the scoured basis. The mills of the
country consumed 1 4 0 million
pounds in the four months, January through April, this year. If
the same rate of consumption
continues, the total supply would
last only 5* months, provided
every pound of fiber could be
gathered up and used. It is also
realized that the surplus stocks
carried over from the war are
now about liquidated and for the
past few years the world has been
consuming about 500 million
pounds more wool annually than
is being produced.
Undoubtedly some wool already
purchased abroad will be imported
and the manufacturers will buy
as much as they can in the foreign auctions when the new ~cason
opens. However, the best chance
for manufacturers to supply their
needs for the next four months"
is to buy the ~uitable parts of the
domestic clip which remain unsold. They are beginning to compete strongly with each other and
with dealers, although they have
on the whole been very successful
in their conservative policy up to
the present.
The amount of wool in the
hands of producers is comparatively small and market news
agencies in the East are already
reporting that some growing areas
are nearly sold out.
r~nt
Stocker Cattle Steady,
Butchers SO Cents Up
At 4-C Sale ln Clovis
CLOVIS, N. M.-Receipts at
the Clovis Cattle Commission
Company last week totaled 2,04S
cattle, or 477 more than the previous wee k. The market was
strong to 50 cents higher on all
killing cattk>, while stockers and
feeders sokl fully steady as compared with the week before.
Fat calves brought $24.50-27,
fat yearlings $24.50-27, topping
at $27.75. Fat cows $19.50 to
$21.50, medium kinds $17-18.50,
canners and cutters $12 to $17.
Good bulls $20.50 to $22.75, top
f23.50, medium and light kinds
$17 to $20.
Good stocker steer calves clear(;(!
at $26 to $30, good steer yearlings
$25 to $27, good feeders $25 to
$26.50, mixed breeds $23.50 to
$25. Good heifer calves $24-27.50,
heifer yeaTlings $23-25.50, young
stocker cows $17-21, older cows
$14-16.50.
KERR COUNTY
COMMISSION CO.
Sale Every Tueaday
SHEEP e GOATS
H ORSES e CATTLE
Earl Bruton, Ownel'
KERRVILLE, TEXAS
May 29-31-Tarkio Ranch Angus
Dispersion, Laramie, Wyoming
May 31-June 4- Annual Midland
Rodeo, Midland, Texas.
June 15-16 - Championship High
School Rodeo, Hallettsville, Tex
June 20-Ficld Day, Sonora Experiment Station, Sonora, Tcxu:>
June 22-23-24-Annual Junction
Rodeo, Junction, Texas.
June 21-22-Sonora Wool Show.
June 30-July 1-Delaine Sheep
Show and Sale, Coleman, Texas.
July 25-26-San Angelo Sheep
Show and Sale.
August' 10-12- Annual Race .Meet
and Billy Sale, Junction, Texas.
LIVESTOCK BUYERS
DIRECTORY
0. W. ADAMS
Fort Stockton, Texas
Phone 70 or 440
VESTAL ASKEW
Representin~ Armour & Co.
Phone 237Gl -Sonora, Texa!l
FRED BALL
San Angelo, Texas
Phone 6718 or 7467
BILLIE BOYCE
Del Rio, Texas
Box 334 - Phone 513-W
OTHO DRAKE
Represeflting Culp & Sons
San Angl•lo, Te>xas
Phone 3706 or 5028
ERNEST KNOTT
Stocker & Fe>l:'der Cattle
Telcphont. 1354
Clovis, ~('\\ :\texico
WALTON KOTH:\IANN
Menard, Texas
Phone 65 o1· tO
J OHNNY MARTI N
San Angelo, Texas
Phone 72403
H. B. MAYFIELD
San Angelo, Texas
Phone 5581
MID-WEST FEED YARDS
San Angelo, Texas
Phone 6718
DICK MORRISON
LI VESTOCK COMPANY
Carlsbad, New Mexico
I buy all classes of cattle.
Orders carefully handled
Office Phone 42-Ext. III,
Crawford Hotel
Stock Yards Phone 582-W
Res. Phone 370-J
NAYLOR COMMl SSION CO.
Naylor Hote-l
J. C. and C. L. McDonald
Phone 4775 or 4265
C. B. REDMON
Cattle, Farm Lands, Ranchc~
Amarillo, Texas
P hone 8050 or 2-5835
LYLE REITEN
San Angelo, Texas
Phone 5294
SAM ROBERTS
San Angelo, Texas
Phone 4342 or 3917-4
L. F. SNEED
San Angelo, Texas
Representing Balthauser &
Moyer, Fargo, North Dakota
Phone €317
CHAS. WALLER
Roswell, N. M.
Phone 496-W at Roswell, or
4101 at San Angelo
AMOS W. WOMBLE
Representing John Clay & Co.
Phone 6156
San Angelo, '}'exas
J. I. WYNN COMMISSION CO.
33 years in business
Amar1llo, Texas
Phone 9217 or 52!)1
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THURSDAY, MAY 18, 1950
WEST TEXAS UVESTOCK WEEKLY
PAGE EIGHT
South Dakotan Figures
Moorhouse Buys Cattle .
The Charles Moorhouse ComHis Lambs Will Be High
mission Company, of Benjamin
When He Gets 'Em Home and Seymour, Texas, has bought
Claude Sherard of Hurley, South
Dakota, last week was receiving
Jambs in the Menard country
which were bought on earlier contracts through Walton Kothmann.
The lambs are going into feedlots
in South Dakota.
Sherard was finding the sheep
tusiness a little rough as he took
up his lambs. The railroad strike
was causing him considerable consternation, for one thing. Also,
the 15,000 or so lambs he has
bought in West Texas cost him
21 ~ to 23% cents per pound,
f.o.b. loading points, and some he
bought early in the spring are
costing as much as 24 cents.
Because of the strike, he had to
add a combination freight rate to
thP. <'ost of the Jambs, though
K'>thmann is splitting tl'lat extra
expense wi"th hfm.
150 calves and 50 yearlings from
Burk a nd Daniel, Ji:den, Texas;
25 calves from Burley Burk of
Eden; 25 cows and calves from
W. J. Locklear of San Angelo; 60
cows and calves from various
people in H askell County: and
sold 107 steers to W. J. Locklear.
Producers Auction Has
Steady Sheep Market,
Cattle Steady To Strong
A steady market was registered
for 3,og6 sheep at Producers Livestock Auction Company here Tuesday. Otd bucks brought $8.50-10
per hundredweight, old ewes $912', spring l'ambs $20-25, clipped
lambs $17-22, buck Jambs $14-16.
Stocker ewes brought $12 to $16.50
per head and ewes and lambs
$16'.50 to $23.50 per pair.
On the cattle market last FriJones Rams Bring $45
d&y, prices were steady to strong
Dempster Jones of Ozona sold on 1,301 head, with fat calves and
30 head of yearling range Ram- yearlings $24-28.50, medium at
bouillet rams to Raymond and $19.50-23.50; fat buns $19.50-21.50,
Walter Pfluger of Eden at $45 medium $17.50-19; fat cows $18each and 12 head to Steve Perner 21, medium $15.50-17.50, and can"I hate to let 'er go lor only $200, lfut I need the money!"
of Ozona at the same price.
ners and cutters $12-15.
Stocker steer yearlings $22.50Crows Nest Ranch
Sells Pairs At $i 7.50
Sells Fat Lambs At 25Y2
25, heifers $21.50-25; stct>r carves
Sells Wool At 71 Cents
Josh Ewing of Eldorado ha"'
Dick
Alexander
of
Comanche,
Good
Rains
This
Month
Horace Linthicum of Eldorado $24-29.50, heifers $23.50-27; stock- Texas, sold 300 fat clipped lambs,
so 1 d 300 spr<'ader and broken
er
cows
$16.50
to
$19.50,
cows
and
The
Crows
Nest
ranch
near
San
is reported to nll\re soTd his 12mixed, on the For t Worth market Angelo, operated by Ed Webster mouth ewes and lambs out of the
months wool, a r o u n d 32,000 calves $180 to $225 pt>r pair.
through Shirley Commission Com· and Sons, received 2~ inch<'s of wool to Albert Tisdale at $17.50
pounds, through the warehouse at
pany weighing 95 pounds at 25 1 ~
per pair to be delivered May 20.
rain last week and another threeEldorado at 71 cents per pound. Johnny Martin Sells
cents per pound.
quarters of an inch Monday evenYearling Ewes To Heep
ing, Ed Webster reported.
Johnny Martin of San Angelo Buck Jackson Contracts
PERMANENT
Webster, who has cattle on blue
hs sold and shipped 900 head of
stem pasture in Kansas, said most
Brahman
Steers
For
Fall
the lighter end of his yearling
of central Kansas has had good
Buck Jackson o f Pecos has rains, though some local areas arc
ewes to Fred Heep of Oklahoma
bought 500 mixed Brahman year- still dry; the Flint Hills country
City.
This week, 1\fartin received and lings from Shelby Jersig of Clovis i!' in good shape for moisture, and
shipped 2,000 clipped mutton lambs for November delivery.
so is the western part of the
He also bought 164 mixed Here- state, he said.
which he had contracted earlier
1. Sheep and Goat pen panel
in the Mason section. Last week, ford yearlings from Gordon Galten
spans 8-10-12 and 14 feet.
he delivered 1,044 clipped muttons of El Paso; '72 from Burkholder
2. Famous guaranted Life-Time
weighing
105 pounds to Texas Brothers of Barstow: and 260 Sells Steers At 25Y2
gates for all purposes.
John Alexander of San Saba is
Livestock Marketing Association. two-year-old heifers from R. L.
3. Light weight, strong, TongZiegler of El Paso, all for imme- repor ted to have sold 63 steer
These were shipped to packers.
lasting Pick-Up Sideboards.
diate delivery.
year lings to Nick Nicodemus o!
Lubbock to be delivered Saturday
700 Yearling Rambouillet
PERMANENT equipment i&
at Brownwood at 25~ cents per
cheaper in the long nm
Ewes For Sale
pound, no shrink. Alexander recently sold his 12-months wool
Inquire:
No bitterweed on ranch
through the Roddie warehouse in
H. C. GRAF A-Phone 9727
San Angelo Livestock Auction Co. Brady at 70 cents a pound.
PAN-L PEN CO.
San Angelo - or
Satttrday and Monday
Box 1310-B San Angelo, Tex.
JACK GRAF A-Phone 2722
CATTLE
A. D. RUST
Sonora, Texas
453 lbs 27.50
14 black steers
13 steers
667 lbs 24.80
7 steers
430 lbs 26.70
Excellent condition
1 heifer
635 lbs 27.60
PHONE ELDORADO 25511
1 heifer
685 lbs 26.90
1 heifer
585 lbs 25.50
1 COW & calf
pair 222.00
pair 190.00
1 cow & calf
head 150.00
122 wf cows
1 cow
1015 lbs 17.00
head 200.00
15 wf bulls
SOLICITING TRANSIENT LIVESTOCK
1 bull
1005 lbs 19.00
SH EEP
Many of the Southwest 's finest clips ha ve
Bill To Stop At
15 lambs
76 lbs 25.00
been marketed here year after year a t the
11 Jambs
88 lbs 23.70
highest prices • . • .
77 lbs 19.05
195 lambs
83 lbs 19.10
86 muttons
AMARILLO, TEXAS
86 lbs 18.70
48 muttons
• PRE-SHEARING ADVANCES •
head 14.00
87 ewes
FOR FEED AND ORDERS
pair 18.25
214 ewes & lambs
HUGH W. FORD, Manager
Box 408 - Phone 3-3727
pair 18.90
190 ewes & lambs
Bonded Warehouses
Courteous Service
pair 19.40
67 ewes & lambs
·137 lbs 10.60
3 bucks
117 lbs 10.00
3 bucks
Gets
We Still
Make 'Em
By Hand!
Aluminum Ranch
Equipment
----------------REPRESENTATIVE SALES
For Sale
95 Top Rambouillet Ewes
Consign your wool to Mertzon!
Amarillo Stockyards
STOCKER
COW and CALF
SALE
Thursday, May 25
including 135 straight 4-year-old Hereford cows
and calves raised by Pat and Wren Jackson.
Midland Livestock Auction
MIDLAND, TEXAS
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Producers Livestock Auction Co.
Friday and TuescW.y
CATTLE
663 lbs 24.00
35 steers
536 lbs 24.25
22 steers
505 lbs 23.80
17 steers
550 lbs 26.80
1 heifer
580 lbs 26.90
1 heifer
535 lbs 27.50
1 heifer
pair 200.00
4 cows & calves
pa ir 201.00
11 cows & calves
pair 206.00
12 cows & calves
860 Jbs 16.65
6 COWE
1375 lbs 18.70
1 cow
1440 lbs 21.00
1 bull
1125 lbs 19.70
1 bull
S HEEP
86 lbs 18.70
85 muttons
76 lbs 18.10
88 muttons
24 muttons
79 lbs 18.75
210 ewes
head 16.50
101 lbs 12.10
17 ewes
pair 21.50
94 ewes & lambs
pair 23.20
217 ewes & lambs
155 lbs 10.00
8 bucks
15 bucks
165 lbs 10.50
West Texas Wool & Mohair Ass'n
MERTZON, TEXAS
• Ship To The 4 · C's
W atcb the Clovis mar"t and you will f ind out why almost
$13,000,000 worth of cattle were sold in our r ing in 1949.
We have the exper ience, the personnel and t he facilities to
han<ile your catt le efficiently. Ship one or one thousand, but
"Ship w the 4 - C's."
CAITLE SALES -- Thursdays only during summer
HORSE and MULE Sales - Every other Tuesday
Clovis Cattle Commission Co.
Phone 5523
CLOVIS, NEW MEXICO
P . O.Box 571
BE N DAVIDSON
CLYDE RAYL