April 14, 1949 - Livestock Weekly!

TEXAS 

Yol. 1 - No. 10 SAN ANGELO, TEXAS, THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949 $5 Per Year- 15c Per Copy 

BREWSTER COUNTY EWES AND LAMBS-One of the best lamb crops in years is coming on in Brewster 

County, and this group of Rambouillet ewes s9uth of Alpine look as though they'll be able to raise their lamb5 

in top shape. Several growers have reported markir!g over 90 percent this spring. But the highest percentage 

reports this spring are comi.ng, as usual, from Crockett County where numerous growers have sworn they 

marked more than 100 percent 

·Kothmann Buys 

Yearlings, Two's 

AI 25- 2& Cents 

Walton Kothmann, Menard order 

buyer, has contracted 60 mixed 

year ling cattle from E. B. Wilkinson 

of Menard for Byron Hunter, 

St. Joseph, Mo., at 25 and 26 

cents, to be delivered in May; he 

contracted 20 head from Joe Russell, 

also of Menard, at the same 

prices for the same buyer. 

F rom George Kothmann, Walton 

bought 40 head of two-year 

old Angus steers for May delivery 

at 25 cents per pound. 

Muttons To Illinois 

Amos Womble of San Angelo 

last week shipped two doubles of 

shorn yearling muttons from Del 

Rio to Illinois feeders; they had 

been contracted earlier by AI Dumain. 

They averaged 85 pounds. 

John Fogarty Ill 

John Fogarty, Ozona r anchman, 

was taken to a San Antonio hospital 

t his week after suffering a 

heart attack. 

California Springers 

Bringing 28-30 Cents 

San Joaquin Valley spring lamb~ 

have been selling recently at 28 

tC' 30 cents per pound, immediate 

delivery, f.o.b. shipping point, to 

San Francisco packers, repor~ 

the California Wool Growers Ae · 

sociation. 

Offers of ~6 \.2 cents per pound, 

f.o.b. shipping point, have been 

made for Sacramento Valley fat 

spring Iambs, the first ones to go 

around May 15, and the balance 

to go shorn and sold fat during 

the summer. 

Burk And Daniel Sell 

Lambs From Kerr Ranch 

Burk and Daniel of Eden havl! 

CCintracted 3,000 mixed lambs tu 

AI Dumain of Las Vegas, Nevada 

and Ray Kitchens of San Angelo. 

Half the lambs will be delivered 

July 1-10 and the rest around 

September 1. These are fr om the 

sellers' Liveoak Ranch in Kerr 

County. Prices were not reported. 

Dressed lamb in New York sold 

$1 to mostly $2 hig:~~r Monday, 

""ith trading fairly active. Commercial 

to choice RTades brought 

'62-67, some to $68. 

Cattle Shipments 

From Texas To 

Oklahoma Begin 

Trading Slow In Del 

Rio Area This Week 

Lamb Market 

Eases Off As 

Easter Nears 

The fat lamb market at Fort 

Worth slipped a little this week 

though a bunch from Brady sold 

Tuesday for 30 cents a pound to 

set an all-time high for the market. 

The record-breakers were 20!) 

head of shorn lambs shipped by 

Kinney Kothmann of Brady and 

sold to Wilson & Company thru 

Bobby Chandler of the Texas Livestock 

Marketing Association in 

Fort Worth. They weighed 104 

pounds off the cars in Fort Worth. 

Otherwise, the market had a 

weaker undertone which observers 

t·onsidered more or less normal iu 

view of the proximity of Easter; 

il is too close to the religious holidays 

now for Iambs to be dressed 

and sold on any except local mar · 

kets. 

Vestel Askew, with Armour & 

Company, reportedly bought two 

bunches of fat shorn lambs at 26 

cents a pound this week; these 

are understood to have been purchased 

for immediate delivery at 

Eldorado and San Saba. 

Milk lambs were quoted $1 to 

$2 lower at Fort Worth Tuesday 

and shorn lambs 50 cents to $1.50 

lower; and men on the yards 

there said the market appear-ed 

about steady on that level Wedne!lday 

morning; Chandler said clipped 

lambs that would have solJ 

at 2!l cents a pound Monday wer 

hard to sell at 27 cents Tuesday 

and Wednesday. 

SAN SABA WOOL 

CLIP ONE OF BEST 

EVER RAISED THERE 

They're s h e a r i n g one of the 

cleanest clips of wool in history 

in San Saba County, growers anti 

wool buyers who've been watching 

the wool come off reported this 

week. 

Frequent rains during· the spring 

and plenty of green grass and 

weeds for sheep to bed on have 

combined to make this one of the 

lighest-shrinking dips ever seen 

in this area. 

Most sheep here are old crop 

lambs, and it looks now as though 

a higher percentage of them will 

Jimmy Mills of Del Rio report- be fat in another two weeks than 

ed Wednesday there's relatively ever before. Some growers have 

httle trading in that section. He begun sending clipped lambs to 

has offered to contract several market, a truckload at a time. 

crops of lambs for fall delivery I Little trading has been done in 

at $15 per head but has found this area this week; probably th .... 

UVALDE- (Special) - Shipments 

of cattle from this terri 

Range conditions are ideal, he lambs have already been sold at 

no takers recently. 

majority of the county's shorn 

tory to summer pasture has got reported. An unusual number of least once and will be delivered 

underway, though on a limited this spring's lambs are expected early in May. 

scale. 

to get fat during the summer. A. A. Allen of Foley-Allen Com- 

S e v e r a I trainloads, including 

mission Company in Fort Worth 

four or five from Chapman and 

received 1,200 lambs from Milli- 

Barnard, have been sent to Oklahoma, 

and the San Antonio Loan Lowell Brakey of Albuquerque hundredweight; t hese were out of 

Shorn Ewes And Lambs 

l!'an and Ku:vkendall at $29.50 per 

and Trust Company has shipped and Ralph Lee of Leoti, Kansas, feed pens and were shorn about 

a trainload from Eagle Pass to have sold 1,500 solid mouth ewes three weeks ago. 

Oklahoma. 

and lambs to Clyde Eldridge of 

Movement to Kansas has not Martin, Blomquist and Lee, Kansas 

City, to be delivered out of 

begun but is expected to begin 

aroun-:1. the middle of May. Kansas 

shipments are later this year $22.50 per pair. 

the wool in about two weeks at 

than usual because of cold weather 

which has held back range feed 

in that state. 

Rath Buys Y eaTiinga 

Very few cattle sales ar e being Jack Reid of Rath Packing 

made; few cattle are being of- Company, Wetumka, Iowa, has Shorn Stocker Muttons 

fered, as most owners are eithe1 bought 4,700 year ling sheep which Contracted At 21 ~ 

keeping stockers on their own had been contracted by Al Ducountry 

or are sending them t-1 main of Las Vegas, Nevada, in der buyer, is reported to have 

Othro Adams, Fort Stockton or 

Oklahoma and Kansas. This area the Del Rio territory; these an! contracted 1,200 stocker yearling 

continues to enjoy an ideal spring to be delivered around the last of muttons in the Mar athon country 

season, w i t h an abundance of j April ~nd the first of May, out to be delivered May 10-15 at 21 ~2 

green grass. 

of the wool. 

cE-nts per pound. 

Wyoming Lamb Report 

Lambs were being .contracted • 

for fall delivery in Wyoming this ~ 

week at 21 to 21 ~ cents a pound, 

it was reported in San Angelo. 

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PAGE TWO WEST TEXAS UVESTOCK WEEKLY THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949 

Corn Belt Editor Says Texans 

Should Oppose Brannan Plan 

West Texas Livestock Weekly 

has received the followin&' com- 

. ments in a letter from Mark W. 

Pickell, managing editor of the 

Corn Belt Livestock Feeder and 

secretary of the Corn Belt Livestock 

Feeders Association: 

"You should Immediately arouse 

the people in Texas to fight the 

proposal of Secretary Brannan, 

that will be made tomorrow (April 

7), whereby farmers of the> 

Corn Belt will be given a guaranteed 

ratio hetween the price of 

corn and hogs, if they comply 

with government orders as to their 

pig production. 

"As I understand it, and this is 

subject to change when his proposal 

comes out, they might tell 

the farmers that if an increase 

of 10 percent in the breeding of 

sows for pigs is made, they will 

guarantee that when these pigs 

are marketed they will bring ::1 

price equal to 14 times the price 

of a bushel of corn. If the pigs 

will not bring this in the market 

place then the difference will be 

paid direct to the producer. 

"On the face of it this looks 

like the millenium. 

"Last fall, to break livestock 

prices so the cost of living of the 

worker would be lowered, government 

officials (1) opened the 

doors to imports of Canadian cattle 

and meat. They said therl' 

would not be over 100,000 head 

of these cattle coming in. Actual 

imports were over 400,000 head of 

animals or meat. (2) They held 

down on exports of lard until 

there was such an accumulation 

that prices of lard went to $5 

per hundred below the average 

hog price, where they should average 

"$2.80 above hogs. (3) They 

cpened the doors to perfectly huge 

imports of vegetable oils from the 

Pacific, still further reducing the 

demand for domestic fats and oils. 

(4) They bought meat from Argentina 

and Mexico for consumption 

by American troops. 

We Sell 

Roping CaHie 

Calves - Steers 

Special Orders Carefully Filled 

HENSON & RILEY 

San Angelo, Texas 

Phone 70655 - 7982 

Are You 

"Under the Brannan proposal 

it could be expected that a high 

corn-hog ratio would be offered 

to induce expanded pork produc· 

tion. This would automatically 

lower the price, farmers being 

reimbursed through taxes. That 

would automatically b rea k the 

price of cattle and lower them to 

ruinous levels. Sheep and lamb 

prices would also break. So would 

poultry, eggs, butter and milk. 

"And when the supply greatly 

exceeded demand, the corn-hog ratio 

would be lowered. 

"Instead of stabilizing prices it 

would distort prices, because the 

future of the farmers and livestock 

producers and feeders of the 

nation would be left completely 

in the hands of ·one man-the Secretary 

of Agriculture. And he is 

the man who last July and August 

pleaded for increased production 

of meat, saying that prices 

would not drop until late in 194!1. 

"I think that the people of Texas 

should immediately get action 

to block any such proposal." 

Cottonseed Meal Aa 

Horse And Mule Feed 

Cottonseed meal is often used, 

especially in the South, as the protein 

supplement for horses and 

mules and gives satisfactory results 

if not more than about 1 

to 1.5 pounds are fed daily per 

1,000 pounds live weight. Sometimes 

even large amounts hav'.' 

been fed successfully. 

When cottonseed meal is added 

to a ration low in protein, it is 

worth considerably more per pound 

than corn or other grain. Such 

balancing of the ration improves 

the condition and appearance of 

the horses or mules. Using cottonseed 

meal as a large part of the 

concentrates. is not safe, as it may 

cause serious digestive disturbances 

because of its heavy nature. 

Also, it may be poisonous when 

too much is fed. Only good-quality 

cottonseed rr.eal should be fed w 

horses and mules. 

If more than 1 to 1.5 pounds 

daily of cottonseed meal are fed, 

it is a good plan to mix it with 

a bulk feed, such as oats, bran 

or corn-and-cob meal. It is best 

to feed not over one-fourth the 

allowance a!l the horses become 

accustomed to it. (From Morrison's 

"Feeds and Feeding.") 

Buying or Selling 

MONDAY SALE 

CA TTL£ - 

HOGS 

Facilties for branding, dehorning 

SATURDAY SALE 

SHEEP, HOGS and HORSES 

Certified scales available day or night 

SAN ANGELO 

AUCTION CO. 

H. E. McCULLOCH OSCAR WYATT 

ABERDEEN-ANGUS HEIFER-One of the leading breeders of Aberdeen-Angus 

cattle in the state and nation is Tommy Brook of Camp San Saba. He raises good 

cattle, and has an ideal ranch on which to }(eep them. This particular heifer is 

one which will be offered in a sale .next fall. Though Tommy's whole ranch is now 

green, he has a good many cattle in the permanent pasture in which this picture 

was taken. 

Midlander Sells Ranch 

At Grainola, Oklahoma 

Good Lamb Crops 

Around A 1 p i n e, the country 

Frank Williamson of Midland where sheep were very hard to 

recently sold his 3,000-acre ranch find a decade or so ago, excellent 

n.ear Grainola, . k~ahoma, to na- l lamb crops are being reported 

tlves of that VI.CJDity for ~45 per I this spring. A lot of growers say 

acre, to be dehvered Apnl 15. , 

W 1 

'll" 

1amson re 

t 

urn 

ed to M'dl 

1 an 

d they ve marked up 90-percent or 

last weekend from Wichita, Kan- better. 

sas, where he went to buy about 

200 head of steers but got only 70 

head. He said he got to the Wichita 

market about three days too 

late. Grass has become so good 

and plentiful, o w n e r s stopper! 

About Out Of Sheep 

Anja Wilson, who ranches 50 

miles south of Alpine, says he has 

only a handful of sheep left on 

his country, and they have been 

living mainly on "lots of air and 

clean water" during the last several 

months. 

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TEXAS OFFICE SUPPLY 

sending stockers to market; prac- Manual REMINGTON RAND 

tically all the cattle on the market 

ADDING MACHINES 

while he was there were butcher 

kinds. He had planned to buy the 

SALES 

steers to put on his ranch near 

and 

Walsenburg, Colorado. 

SERVICE 

New 4-H Calf Program 

Underway In Kansas 

Livestock interests in Kansas 

City and the Kansas City Chamber 

of Commerce are fostering a 

4-R Club calf feeding program in 

which economy of gain, not merely 

degree of finish, will govern 

judges in making awards. 

Under this program, club members 

will get as m a n y calves 

V~-eighing 400 to 500 pounds as 

they can in the fall, "rough" 

them through the winter so they 

will gain from 200 to 250 pounds, 

nn'd then turn them out on grass 

for the summer. When the grass 

dries up, the calves will be put 

in drylot and finished for showing. 

02 Ranch Carrying 

About 5,000 Cattle 

Cavin Woodward, manager of 

the 420-section 02 Ranch south of 

Alpine, says there are only about 

5,000 head of cattle on the ranch 

now, and that has been about the 

normal rate of stocking it since 

Lykes Brothers Steamship Company 

bought the place several 

years ago. 

About 250 head of 02 steers 

will be shipped soon to Kansas 

for summer pasture. 

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THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949 WEST TEXAS LIVESTOCK WEEKLY PAGE THREE 

Expert Pilots, Crack Shots,. 

Make It Tough On Predators 

Soon after arriving at the ranch, 

··Ray ···spotted the three dogs and 

gave chase in his plane. The dogs 

were running aide by side until 

Baumgardner was almost ready 

to start using his automatic 12- 

gauge shotgun. Suddenly one dog 

~ veered off to the right, another 

took a course to the left, while 

the third ducked back under Ray's 

plane. 

The veteran pilot gave his light 

plane a little left rudder and 

shot; he kicked around to the 

right and a. hot again; then he 

whipped it around in a 180-degree 

tum and shot a third time. Three 

aheep-killlng d o g a w e r e dead 

among the greaaewood, and 15 

minutes after the takeoff he ·was 

: back at the field. 

Baumgardner baa been shooting 

predatory anlmala from an airplane 

since 1981. It's his buainess. 

He's killed close to 1,000 

eagles and coyotes, though several 

government trapper• are working 

constantly in Pecos County. J. 0. 

Caaparis of Alpine baa killed even 

more, but he's in a territory where 

predators, particularly eagles, are 

n::ore numeroua. 

Baumgardner got the idea for 

hla present occupation in 1931 

when he tried for a $50 reward 

which ranchmen of Fort Stockton 

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A few weeks ago a Pecos County 

ranchman notified Ray Baumgardner, 

Fort Stockton pilot, that 

three dogs we r e running his 

sheep; he asked If Ray would fly 

to his ranch and try to do aomething 

about it. 

Othro Adams, F o r t Stockton 

livestock dealer who flies a lot, 

heard the conversation and decid- 

ed to go along in his own plane 

and watch Ray at work. This, 

according to Othro is what happened: 

offered for the scalp of a certain 

coyote which had caused untol:l 

lou to sheepmen but which had 

become too wary for capture by 

ordinary means. Ray took off in 

an old biplane, taking a gunner 

with him. They found the coyote 

on the Pryor and Lucas ranch 

and the gunner bagged him with 

his seventh and last shell. 

For a long time, Ray took a 

gunner with him on his flights. 

E. G. Pope, now in charge of 

predatory animal control in the 

Lubbock area, did Ray's shooting 

for a while, and Ray believes now 

he was the best shot he ever saw. 

In 1932, Ray bought a pushertype 

plane, c a 11 e d the Curtis 

Wright Junior. In this machine 

he sits well forward of the wing 

and the engine and propeller. He 

has his automatic shotgun mounted 

on a rack, on a swivel, and 

can get ari unobstructed shot at 

coyotes or ellgles. 

However, he now uses another 

plane, as well as the pbsher. He 

has a Piper Cruiser, a two-place 

cabin trainer, which affords more 

protection from cold wind and 

gives him more speed. 

He needs that extra speed in 

shooting eagles. His pusher cruise!! 

around 60 to 65 miles per hour. 

This is fast enough for coyote 

work, but it is barely faster than 

eagles fly. He believes the aerial 

killen fly about 50 or 55 miles 

per hour when they're in a hurry, 

110 if they have much of a head 

start they're hard to catch in the 

pusher. 

An eagle is easy to see from 

the ground, but hard to see from 

the air; a coyote, on the other 

hand, is much easier to spot than 

an eagle. 

Sometimes Ray finds an eagle 

sitting on a fence or telephone 

post. This gives him an advantage, 

since he can dive on them. 

Aa one who makes his living in 

the air, Ray knows bow difficult 

it is for him to take off downwind. 

The same applies to eagles, 

he figurea, 110 be has often tried 

tt- make an eagle takeoff in such 

a manner that the bird will be at 

a disadvantage. But he says he 

has never been able to force onll 

of the big birds to leave his perch 

except into the wind. 

"An eagle will fly straight toward 

you rather than take of! 

downwind," Baumgardner say 11 • 

Eagles are not so difficult to kill 

If you don't let them get into a 

"thermal." They seem to be able 

to detect these columns of warm, 

rising air which are particularly 

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Representative Sales 

at San Angelo Livestock Auction Saturday and Monday 

25 steers 

steer 

steer 

1 ~>teer 

2 steers 

!) steers 

1 steer 

steer 

steer 

1 steer 

1 steer 

1 steer 

3 steers 

steer 

heifer 

heifer 

heifer 

12 hPifers 

1 heifer 

1 heifer 

1 row 

cow 

cow 

1 cow 

Jersey cow 

Jersey cow, calf 

Jersey cow 

Jersey cow, calf 

1 bull 

1 bull 

1 bull 

bull 

bull 

1 bull 

1 bull 

1 Angus bull 

55 lambs 

1 lamb 

2 lambs 

1 clipped lamb 

122 clipped lambs 

13 milk lambs 

3 lambs 

59 clipped mutton~ 

1 lamb 

26 lambs 

3 lambs 

2 lambs 

17 lambs 

11 lambs 

185 lambs 

1 boar 

1 boar 

1 sow 

sow 

1 sow 

3 barrows 

9 barrows 

2 barrows 

7 barrows 

Dressed Meat Trade 

Strong But For Veal 

CATTLE 

425 lbs. 

620 lbs. 

JS35 lbs. 

780 lbs. 

~48 lbs. 

360 lbs. 

450 lbs. 

360 lbs. 

415 lb!l. 

325 lbs. 

430 lbs. 

635 lbs. 

615 lbs. 

415 lbs. 

330 lbs. 

520 lbs. 

435 lbs. 

554 lbs. 

500 lbs. 

595 lbs. 

GOO lbs. 

840 lbs. 

830 lb!!. 

870 lbs. 

by head 

per pair 

by head 

per pair 

1465 lbs. 


1125 lbs. 

630 lbs. 



1020 lbs. 

685 lbs. 

SHEEP 

71 lbs. 

130 lbs. 

70 lb~;. 

135 lbs. 

66 lbs. 

60 lbs. 

130 lbs. 

70 lb~. 

75 lhs. 

54 lbs. 

64 lbs. 

80 lbs. 

73 lb!

THURSDAY, APRIL 14, 1949 

-~- Fat CaHie Lead In 

Chicago Receipts 

Despite High Price 

CHICAGO-(USDA) - Cattle 

finishers marketed approximately 

5,000 more cattle at Chicago in 

five d.ays of last week than during 

the same period the preced- 

• ing week, but demand· also broad· 

ened and all slaughter classes 

scored price gains. Trading prov· 

4 ed moderately active, generally 

improving as the week wore on, 

stimulated mainly by an active 

advancing wholesale o u t I e t for 

dressed beef in local as wt>ll as 

Eastern consuming centers. 

Little price shifting occurred in 

the live market the fore part of 

the week as cattle supplies were 

adequate to s at i sf y immediate 

slaughter requirements. However, 

; curtailed shipments after Wednesday 

pushed quotations upward. At 

the close of the week, slaughter 

steers and heifers stood 25 cents 

to 76 cents over the ~)receding 

Friday, with cows and bulls up 

to 26 cents higher and vealers 

steady to $1 up, with the upturn 

on good and choice grades. 

Stockers and feeders sold mostly 

steady with clearance in th!! 

feeder division much broader than 

• late in the previous week. 

Fed steers and heifers continued 

..- to form a very high percentage of 

marketings. Steers predominated 

by long odds, runing over 65 percent 

of receipts on some days. 

The average cost of beef steers 

sold here for the week was $24.39, 

representing an increase of 45 

cents over the previous tradin~ 

period. Two loads of prime 1,098 

and 1,126-pound steers from th~ 

herd of a well-known show feede:· 

claimed the week's $30 top, a 

price equalled a few times but 

not surpassed since last January. 

Other loads of average to highchoice 

fed steers, 1,375 pounds 

down, cashed at $27 to ~28.50, 

with a load of choice to prime 

1,421-pound beeves topping the 

heavies at $27.75. 

The sheep market here during 

the week was featured by increased 

receipts, though marketings 

were far short of those for the 

same week a year ago. The preceding 

week's record prices were 

given credit for attracting more 

lambs, if not 'more sheep, even 

pulling two loads of medium to 

good 89-pound Western Canada 

lambs at $29.50; these were the 

first Canadians at the Chicago 

marketin m a n y years. A few 

packages of good to choice native 

spring lambs brought $32.1)() to 

$33, a record to date. 

Use our classified ads for results. 

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PAGE FIVE 

REGISTERED RAMBOUILLET RAMS--These are some registered ram lambs on the Miles Pierce ranch he· 

tween Alpine and Maratho.n. Miles took over the ranch last fall and has been improving it as rapidly as he 

could. Meanwhile, he's established a flock of registered Rambouillets on the ranch and is growing out a large 

.number of ramg for show this year. He got off to a late start on his lambs, and these will have to show against 

considerably older lambs from flocks of other breeders, but he says he has no apology to make for their 

uniform quality. 

Boston Wool Report Might Be 

Condensed To 'No Business' 

BOSTON- Trading was practically 

at a standstill this week 

in the Boston wool market, according 

to the Production and 

Marketing Administration. Occasional 

odd lots of government owned 

territory %s French combing 

wool and a small Weight of low 

1,4 -blood moved. 

Business in woolen wools was 

inactive also, ltr'id only scattered 

sales were noted. Scoured Australian 

60s grade with some defect 

and some scoured 58s California 

wool was purchased for 

government orders. Noils wer(' 

slow to move but odd lots in all 

grades were sold at slightly lower 

prices. 

Contracting in Western states 

remained practically at a standstill. 

A good portion of mixed 

Idaho wools which were soid when 

shorn have now been shipped and 

some wools are beginning to arrive 

in Boston. The wools that 

are now being shorn in Eastern 

Nevada are probably wools that 

were contracted early in the year. 

Dealers asserted they could not 

give a reasonable estimate of values, 

therefore they could not give 

their representative~ any buying 

limits in the West. 

It was also stated that there 

was no interest for standard orders 

in any grade, normally in 

demand, and dealers were not asked 

by manufacturers to quote a 

price for wool. 

Cabled· reports from Australia 

indicated prices remained firm 

and unchanged for, fine wools at 

lower levels. England appeared 

keen for fine Merirtoil with tht~ 

continent buying to some extent. 

The · New Zealand market was 

firm at lower levels on the basis 

of the recent recession of fro~ .6 

percent. Prices in South Africa 

continued· firm at slightly lower 

levels. In South America, Bueno!! 

Aires and s~;;per montevideo wools 

in the finer grades were slightly 

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easier but low Buenos Aires wool~ 

showed strength at slightly lowe.· 

levels. 

Trade in fleece wools this week 

was stagnant and country buying 

had virtually ceased. 

Some shearing of territory wool.; 

has been done in Idaho and NP. 

vada. Shearing will commence in 

Utah about the week of April 11, 

followed by shearing at Rawlings, 

Wyoming !lbout two weeks hence. 

Business in the local market was 

flat as far as territory wools 

were concerned. 

Business was stagnant here this 

week in mohair. There· were some 

indications of a weakening tendency. 

A late report at week's end 

advised that at the opening sale 

in Brisbane, Australia, prices were 

sharply lower and very difficult 

to quote accurately. Thursday's 

decline ranged from 10 percent 

for the better wools and up to 20 

percent for the inferior tyi¥)S. 

Competition was restricted and 

the market closed weak and irregular. 

Very few shippers were 

quoting Brisbane prices. 

In Melbourne, also, the market 

was easier and demand moderate 

a~ Russia and England bought 

sparingly and all other sections 

were buying moderately. In the 

auction at Timaru, New Zealand, 

Y.z-bred· wools were quoted lower 

while cross-bred held firm and 

unchanged. The Capetown sale in 

South Africa was erratic and 

prices were easier, according to 

an early report during the week. 

Offerings were mainly of short 

wools and quotations declined 5 

to 10 cents per clean pound. 

Home From New Orleans 

Mr. and Mrs. Guy Rachal of 

Fort Stockton r e t u r n e d home 

Tuesday after visiting in New 

Orleans, La. Guy reported he got 

about 1 ¥.a inches of moisture on 

his ranch last week. 

Carruthers Improving 

Lit Carruthers, Barnhart ranchman, 

was reported to be somewhat 

improved in a San Angelo 

hospital this week; he had been 

critically ill for several days, suf· 

fering from pneumonia. 

"I find your paper very interesting 

because of the items referring 

to actual sales and contracts 

for sale of sheep. This information 

gives me an overall picture 

of market trends in the sheep 

industry of West Texas as well 

as other states." Le&ter Sparks, 

Johnson, Kansas. 

MONT ANA MIXED 

LAMBS CONTRACTED 

FOR 20 AND 24 CENTS 

GREAT FALLS, Montana- A 

thousand whiteface lambs have 

sold in the Stanford area for fall 

delivery at 20 cents for the routtons 

and 24 cents for the ewes, 

it was reported this week by th~ 

First National Bank of Great 

Falls. 

In the Kevin area, 600 whiteface 

wether lambs sold for October 

delivery at 20 cents a pound, 

and 380 blackface yearling ewes 

sold for August delivery, out of 

the wool, at $23.25. 

At Meeteetse, Wyoming, it wa 

reported that 1,800· fleeces of wool 

had sold for 60 cents a pound. 

but this sale was made several 

weeks ago. 

In the Browning area of Montana, 

whiteface m u t to n lambs 

have been contracted for fall delivery 

at 20 1 h cents per pound. 

GOODSPEED WINS 

CALF MONEY AT 

PHOENIX RODEO 

PHOENIX--Jess Goodspeed of 

Wetumka, Oklahoma, won the calf 

roping average in the Phoenix 

Championship Rodeo here last 

week, tying two calves in 29.7 

S('conds. Cliff Whatley of Tucson 

won second with 29.8 seconds. 

A. J. Pettigrew of Grady, N. M., 

teok third with 30 flat, and Vern 

Castro of Richmond, California, 

fourth with 30.8. 

In the first go-round, Homer 

Pettigrew or Chandler, Arizona, 

was first with 14 seconds flat. 

A. J. Pettigrew took second with 

14.3, Cliff Whatley third with 

14.9, and Gt•odspeed fourth with 

15.3. 

In the second go-round, Goodspeed 

was first with 14.4, Chuck 

Sheppard of Prescott was second 

with 14.7, Cliff Whatley third in 

14.9. Vern Castro and Toot;; 

Mansfield split fourth, each tyin~ 

in 15.3 seconds. 

Jim Hudson and Jim Brister of 

Lordsburg, N. M., took the team 

roping, tying three steers in a 

total of 55.4 seconds. Dick Wilson 

and Lester Glenn of Tucson were 

second with 66.9, Sam McKinney 

and H. Rams«:y of Coolid~te, Ari· 

zona, were third with 68.6, and 

Clay Carr and Ver{l Castro were 

fourth with 71.2. 

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VERFLOWING CORN 

BINS AND $20 CA TILE 

TOP SEEN AHEAD 

"Never have we seen so much 

corn on farms at this time of 

year," wrote the editor of the 

Livestock and Grain Bulletin at 

Chicago last week after a 1,600- 

mile trip through the Corn Belt. 

"We fully expect the report of 

stock on farms, when isued April 

11 along with the April 1 estimate 

of the winter wheat crop, to show 

a record quantity of corn. Farm 

after farm, seen from this trip 

of 1,500 miles across the heart of 

the corn belt, had from two to as 

high as 10 snow-fence cribs full 

of corn still in the yard in addition 

to the regular cribs which 

were also full. Some were feeding 

out of the outside cribs and had 

other cribs yet to feed. 

"It is expected the government 

will offer a re-sealing program 

whereby farmers will be given 12 

cents a bushel to keep the corn 

on farms for another year. But 

that does not take away the fact 

that the carryover of corn, even 

though more than usual is fed t 

the spring pig crop, will be simply 

huge. And it raises the question 

in our mind as to where 

farmers could possibly store another 

crop of three billion bushels 

or more. If the wheat crop comes 

through as at present indicated, 

all of the terminal storage space 

will be filled with that crop. We 

will make the forecast right now 

that unless Dame Nature turns 

decidedly different d u r i n g the 

next 45 days, more wheat will be 

stored on the ground this year 

than ever before. And it will take 

into the fall of the year, even ex· 

porting far more than is allotted 

under the International Wheat 

Agreement, to open the terminal 

elevators to where they can handle 

much corn. 

"So just a lot of the picture not 

only on cattle but on corn and 

other commodities is wrapped up 

in the corn crop that will soon be 

planted. If the crop comes through 

and December sees the market 

price of corn down around the 

current ollet of traders, or about 

$1.15, then we must expect the 

cattle market to work down toward 

its natural or long-term relationship, 

or around parity for 

cattle and not much if any above 

a $20 top-the Corn Belt had better 

fix its ideas on buying feeder 

cattle this fall at not above the 

$20 mark-and if the month of 

July is kind to the growing corn 

crop, the ideas might better be 

lowered below that." 

Ranch and 

Shearing Supplies 

• 

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Mohair Co. 

Beal Barbee, Owner 

·I 

MOUNTAIN RANGE-About 16 miles southeast of 

Alpine, Miles Pierce runs some of the best sheep in 

Texas on a ranch which includes this scene. Miles says 

his sheep like to bed as high on these mountains as they 

can get, and they can get plenty high. The only way 

to the top of this peak is through the narrow gorge 

near the left face of the cliff, and when Miles rounds 

up that's the way he goes up and brings his sheep 

down. 

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... . '~ . ·...... . 

BUTCHER CLASSES 

UP AT R&F SALE 

AT CLOVIS 

CLOVIS, N. M.- The market 

was 50 cents to $1 higher on 

practically all classes of butcher 

cattle at the Ranchers and Fal'JTI.· 

era Livestock Sales Company in 

Clovis last Friday. Receipts totaled 

2,712 head. 

Good to choice fat steer yearlings 

brought $22.50-25, medium 

kinds $20-22; best fat heifers sold 

at $22-24, medium kinds $20-22: 

good to choice fat cows went at 

$18-19.50, with heiferettes to $20.- 

50. Canners and cutters brought 

$13-16, bulls $18 to 22.90. Fat 

calves sold 26 to 50 cents higher 

than the previous week, with good 

to choice offerings bringing $24- 

26, and medium to good ones $22- 

24. 

Stocker steer yearlings brought 

$22.60-26, heifers $21.60-24, best 

steer calves on the light order 

$26-28.50, heifer calves mostly at 

$24-26. 

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WINDUP OF A SHEEP TRADE-The deal was all finished when this picture was 

taken in the Alpine stockpens last weekend. Zeb Decie, left, Alpine ranchman, 

had just delivered 2,600 ewe lambs t.o Ray Willoughby, San Angelo. Ray ranches 

at Alpine, too, and other places too numerous to mention here, but he took the 

lambs to his Eldorado ranch. 

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Whole U.S. Farm Economy Geared 

To Feeding Grain To Livestock 

The theory that it is more 

enconomical for people to eat 

grain directly instead of fet.ding 

it to livestock has not lacked vociferous 

exponents among union 

leaders nor indeed among high 

government officials. 

Concerning this idea, Dr. A. D. 

Weber of Kansas State College, 

included these observations in a 

talk before a group of feeders at 

Kansas City: 

It is in the feeding of grains 

to beef cattle that mieconceptions 

frequently arise In th• minds of 

those unfamiliar with the fundamentals 

of beef making. Not only 

is the economy of using grain in 

this manner sometimes questioned 

but in periods of relatively short 

grain suppli@lt tht!l'e lll'tl iftviU.'iably 

a few persons who maintain that 

it is unwise to feed any grain at 

all to livestock. They insist that 

animals should subsist wholly on 

grass and forage nHd that grain 

should be reserved lor human consumption. 

It is true, ol course, 

that one bushel of corn, as such, 

will furnish more energy to a 

person if consumed directly than 

it will if first fed to a steer and 

then consumed as beef. 

But those who argue against 

feeding corn to beef cattle and 

who have little sympathy for feeders 

in a period such lls this, fail 

to understand the Underlying requirements 

for efficiency in the 

total beef-making process. They 

don't appreciate that a 750-pound 

steer, for example, produced wholly 

on grass and roughage. is not 

suitable for slaughter and tha~ it 

would be uneconomic to dispose of 

him in that manner. What everybody 

needs to know is that by 

feeding this yearling steer 25 to 

30 bushels of corn over a 100-dav 

period, the entire carct~ss is made 

more nutritious as well as much 

more palatable and considerably 

more acceptable to the consumer. 

Furthermore, the 250-pounds of 

f!ain ordinarily will justify feedin~ 

the grain. even if the value 

of the orilrinal w!'iP.'ht were not 

enht\nced through fPl'ning. 

The Ameriran nublic needs to 

understand that 85 percent of the 

total production of corn. sor~hum 

!!'rain. oat!'!. finn ba>-]Pv is utilizerl 

bv livestock. Our whole farm economy 

is geart>d to the utili:ation 

of !!'rain in this manner. Unless 

a hil!'h perC'ental!'e of these grains 

is fed to llvestock. our economy 

soon become§ unbalanced. In that 

connection· it may be noted that 

in view of the trend that cattle 

prices have taken recently the 

government support price on corn 

has now become a factor of considerable 

importance, insofar as 

the utilization of corn in fattening 

cattle is concerned. 

Espy Sells Goats 

Jim Espy of Fort Davis last 

week was shearing 3,000 head of 

aged mutton goats he had sold to 

Jerry Gee of Lampasas; the price 

was not reported. 

Shin Oak And Grass 

Come Simultaneously 

Cattlemen of the shin oa·k and 

sand country of Texas last week 

said "shinery" was excellent and 

cattle are thriving on it. For the 

first time in several years, the 

shin oak and spring grass came 

at the same time, making pastures 

doubly good. Conditions were reported 

particularly good in Andrews 

and Gaines counties. 

Coming Up 

April 16-Luther T. McClung 

Aberdeen-Angus Sale, Fort 

Worth. 

April 17-24-..Big Spring Futurity. 

April ~7..w!ay 1-Annual Spring 

Jtece Meet, Del Rio. 

April 30-Sterling City Horse 

Show, Sterling City, Texas. 

May 12-B. E. Brooks and D. L. 

Haralson Quarter Horse Sale, 

San Angelo. 

May 13-16-San Angelo Horse 

Show, San Angelo. 

May 27-28-ltlll Country Quarter 

Horse Show, Kerrville. 

June 1-5th Annual Distribution 

Sale, San Angelo. 

June 1-5-1\lidland World Championship 

Rodeo. 

June 9-11-Mason Roundup. 

June 16-18-Sart Saba Jaycee~ 

Rodeo. 

July 1-4-Texas Cowboy Rl!union, 

Stamford. 

July 1-4-Brady July Jubilcl! and 

Race Meet, Brady, Texas. 

July 21-22--All-American Carriedale 

Show and Sale, San Angelo. 

August 20---,Llano Horse Show. 

IT'S A BlC COUN'tRY-Maybe they mean something 

when they talk about the wide open spaces. A bunch 

of steers look pretty small in this setting, with a str('tch 

of good grama grass pasture reaching for miles to the 

range of mountains in the dim background. This picture 

Was taken one evening last week between Alpine 

and Fort Davis.

PAGE EIGHT 

Cowman Swears Thirsty Spirits 

Tried To Talk Him Out Of'Nip' 

By BILL HOGE 

Skiatook, Okla. 

An old Indian Territory cattle· 

man friend of mine who still lives 

here but whose name I'd better 

withhold, told a story recently 

that is really unusual. He insists 

it is absolutely true and will fight 

anyone wh..> says it ain't. Here 

it is: 

"Back in the early days, before 

this country was settled up much, 

two other cowboys and myself 

were holein' up in a house just 

south of the present site of Skiatook, 

taking care of a bunch of 

range steers. 

"Now all of us took a little nip 

of liquor one~ in awhile and one 

mornin' we awoke to find that 

there was nary a drop on the 

place. We decided that as one of 

us might get snake bit unexpectedly 

we'd better have a little 

around and I was named a committee 

of one to secure said liq· 

uor. 

"Well, I knew a nester who lived 

about a mile east, near Biru 

Creek, who 'll'gged a little 'Kick· 

a-poo Joy Juice' to the cowmen 

and Injuns who came by his place. 

!lO I took off a-foot for his shanty. 

It was just after daylight on an 

early fall mornin' and a very 

he:avy frost was on the vegetation, 

and everywhere for that matter, 

"Just as J entered the brushy 

thicket a man's voice stopped ml! 

in my tracks. He talked in an unfamiliar 

and foreign tongue. Now 

I am famil:ar with about all 

American Indian language and it 

certainly wasn't like any I have 

ever heard. In fact, I have never 

heard a language like it. He talk· 

ed very earnestly and it was plain 

that he was trying hard to explain 

something to me. He talked 

about a minute or two and quit, 

apparently giving up hope of get· 

ting his message over to me. 

"Then a distinctively feminine 

voice began talking in the same 

language. She also was much in 

earnest but I was unable to make 

a thing out of their jabber. I 

couldn't see anyone around, and, 

needless to say, I had a very 

strange feeling about this experience. 

After they had ceased talking 

I looked around a bit to see 

if I could see any signs of anybody 

being around but failed. I 

just knew that they were spirits 

and it worried me because I could 

not understand their message. 

"I then went on to camp and 

tcld my partners about my experience 

and they were somewhat 

worried too, for they knew that I 

was strictly sober and was not 

uccustomed to bringing in wild 

stories like this. I was in my right 

mind if I ever was and my part· 

like a I i g h t snow. I walkeri 

straight through t.o his place and 

ners knew this. We decided to go 

part of the way was down a draw 

in a body to the spot and look 

around for signs, as my partner>< 

through a brushy thicket. thought P e r h a p s someone W&!l 

"Well, I made the purcha~e and playing a prank on me, but after 

asked the squatter to !;Iring out a looking the place over thoroughly 

cup while I drew a bucket of not a sign of anyone being around 

water at the well and we each except me could be found. All 

took a small drink and drank three of us were then convinced 

some water for a chaser. We talk- these were spirits trying to com· 

ed a few minutes and I offered municate with us. 

him another drink but he refused, "This weird episode kept on my 

saying that one was enough for mind and I decided to call on an 

him. As I hadn't had any for old Indian medicine man who wa~ 

s~metime, I took another ~mall a friend of mine, and see if he 

mp and started back to camp. 

Producers Sale Still 

Steady To Stronger 

On Sheep And Cattle 

Sheep receipts tot a I e d 2,07~ 

head at the Producers Livestock 

Auction here Tuesday, and thl' 

market was strong and active 

compared with the previous week. 

Old bucks brought $10-13 per 

hundredweight, fat lambs $26.50- 

28, stocker I n m b s $26.50-27.50. 

clipped stockers $23.50-24.50, and 

stocker ewes at $22-26.25 per head 

with one bunrh of blackfare ewes 

and lambs at $39.50 per pair. 

On the cattle market the preceding 

Friday, 750 head Mld at 

steady to $1 hia-her on butcher 

yearlings. Fat bulls scored $19.50- 

21, medium kinds $18.50-19.50; 

fat calves and yearlin~ts brou~ht 

$24-26, fat cows $18-19.50, with 

medium kinds in both categoric!> 

as much as $3 below the tops. 

Canners and cutters went mo~tlv 

at $11-16.50, stocker steers $24- 

26, heifers $23-24.50, cows $17- 

19, and cows and calves $165-225 

per pair. 

Country Shipments Of 

Cattle From K. C. Are 

Under Price Preaaure 

KANSAS CITY-(USDA) 

Shipments of cattle and calves 

from Kansas City market to the 

country during the period April 1 

through April 7, 1949, totaled 11,· 

189, compared with 10,024 the 

previous week and 5,296 for the 

same period a year ago. 

There was a bearish demanJ 

for the increased supply and in 

slow trading prices ruled unevenly 

steady to $1 lower; interest in 

steers weighing 900 or more was 

paritcularly mild. 

The average cost of all steen 

shipped to the country during the 

week was $23.57, or 69 cents lower 

than the previous week and 

$2.29 lower than the corresponding 

week last year. The majority 

of shipments were to Kansas, Illi· 

nola and Missouri destinations. 

I 

could offer an explanation to thi:tt 

experience. After I had explained 

all the details of my experience 

to him he said: 'Indians have al· 

ways known about these spirits. 

Those people lived long, long time 

ago. You had either walked over 

their grave or perhaps you werr. 

standing on it when they wer" 

talking to you. They knew you 

had that bottle of whiskey in your 

pocket and were trying to explain 

to you that they wanted some of 

it. If you had poured some of it 

on a stump or on the ground thl'v 

would have gotten it and would 

have been satisfied.' " 

Now we know that lots of folks 

crave liquor while alive but thi11 

is the first instance I ever heard 

of where they craved it after 

death! 

Fat Cattle, Ewes And 

Lambs Sell Higher At 

San Angelo Auction 

· THUR~DA Y, APRIL 14, 1949 

MIGHTY BIG FOR WEST TEXAS--Between San Angelo and the West Coast. 

shade trees run mostly to small mesquitf's, catclaw and prickly pear except at. 

isolated spots where water, soil and man's constant ca~e enable _big tree~ to grow. 

This unusually majestic cottonwood stands proudly beside the highway JUSt north 

of Fort Davis. 

ALFALFA IS LEADING 

HAY CROP IN NATION 

(MorriBOil's Feeds and Feeding) 

Over one-third of all the tame 

hay produced in the United States 

i~ now alfalfa. Alfalfa has come 

to occupy this leading position be· 

cause it out-yields other hay crops 

and also because of its palatabil· 

ity, its richness in prot~in, and 

its high content of calctum and 

vitamins. Because of the excelll•nce 

of alfalfa hay and other alfalfa 

forage, they are commonly 

taken as the standards with which 

other forage crops are compared. 

In addition to its use for hay, 

alfalfa is also used to a much 

more limited extent for pasture 

and for silage. 

While alfalfa was at first grown 

chiefly in the Western states, the 

acreage has increased most rapidly 

in the north central states durtng 

recent years. Michigan, Wisconsin 

and Minnesota now lead in 

acreage of alfalfa, though California 

is first in total tonnage of 

alfalfa hay because of the high 

yields secured under irrigation. 

Alfalfa can be grown profitably 

in mo~t districts of the United 

States where the soil is deep, 

well-drained and not so acid as 

to make the cost of liming pro· 

hibitive. 

Alfalfa provides o v e r three 

times as much d.igeatible protein 

per a c r e as clover-and-timothy 

hay and 2.4 times as much as 

corn grown for silage. In yield> 

A strong to 50-cents-higher mar- of total digestible nutrit:tts, it is 

ket met receipts totaling 450 head excelled only by corn silage, and 

of cattle at the San Angelo Live- it furnished nearly twice as much 

stock Auction Monday. 

total digestible nutrients per acre 

Medium to good butcher year- as clover-and-timothy hay. In adlings 

went at $22-22.50 per hun- dition, alfalfa hay is much richer 

dredweight. Best butcher cow-; in calcium and it ill also higher 

brought $17-18.50, canners and in carotene than thelle other crops. 

cutters $11·16.75, bulls $20-21.50, In the hot irrigatl!d districts of 

stocker yearlings 21-24.50, stocker the Southwest nir\e br even more 

cows $16-17, and scattered lots o( cuttings of alfalfa are sometimes 

cows and calves up to $210 per made in a year. Where both soil 

pair. 

and climate are suitable, alfalfa 

On the sheep market the pre- returns ~ood crops fur many year,; 

vious Saturday, all classes found without reseedin~. When high 

a stronger demand reflecting Ltmperature is combined with a 

prices upward as much as a dol- humid climate, alfalfa generally 

lar, and particularly active where fails unless the soil is unusually 

ewes and lambs were concerned. favorable. 

Clipped fat lambs brought $26.25- Because alfalfa sends its roots 

27.75, stocker lambs in the wool deep into the subsoil on well 

$26.25-28.25, out of the wool, $22.- drained land, it is able to draw 

75-24. Shorn ewes brought $12- moisture from a great depth of 

13.50, bucks $9.75-11, ewes and soil. In a semi-arid climate this 

lambs $23.50-25 per pair. may bring about a decided de- 

Top of thl' market was a fat pletion in the moisture of the 

lamb in the wool that brourht subsoil, for alfalfa can draw upon 

$29.30 per hundredweight or a water which has been stored over 

total of $38.09. 

a lonr period. Thia depletion of 

aubsoil moiature ia one of the 

Food production is about one-~ chief reaaons why alfalfa often 

third larger than prewar, while tails to thrive in such dry dispopulation 

is up one-sixth. tricts when seeded on land which 

has been in alfalfa several years. 

The very efficiency of the crop 

in obtaining water thus prove.; 

its undoing on that particular 

field. This probably has been the 

chief cause of the rlccrease in al· 

falfa acreage in certain western 

states in recent years. 

CORN MARKET 

STRONGER EXCEPT 

AT KANSAS CITY 

KA~SAS CITY - Corn made 

further gains at Chicago, St. 

Louis and Minneapoli~ dunng tht> 

week ending Apnl 7, but pros· 

pects of larger offerings weak· 

ened the Kansas City market, the 

USDA rep.,rted. 

Marketings of corn were light 

and arrivals at the principal markets 

totaled only a little over four 

million bushels. Purchases by th·~ 

Commodity C r e d i t Corporation 

amounted to only 01,600 bushel~ 

during the week. This brought the 

total of C.C.C. purchases since 

July 1 to over 62 1 ; 2 million bushels. 

Exports of corn since the first 

of October have been unusually 

heavy and totaled a little over 

61% million bushels through the 

month of March. Argentina ha

April 14, 1949 - Livestock Weekly!

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