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Just a scoop fullBy Jerry Nine (Jan. 18)--This week we sold some little, thin bull calves off old cows. These calves were nice black calves but you sure wouldn't want them any thinner. One small package weighed 190 pounds average, which brought $270 per hundredweight. Their brothers weighed 250 pounds and brought $238 cwt. Most of the killing cows brought from $65 to $75 cwt. with a top of $84 cwt. This is definitely going to be a year that we remember with the drought and followed by record prices. I keep hearing talk that some say the drought is apt to continue another year. However, it is at least a good feeling to have some wheat pasture around. I like our cattle market where it is now. If we can grow some grass and not have to buy everything they eat--we might have a chance of making some money. I have talked to several ranchers and asked how much of their cow herd they have sold because of the drought. Some say they have culled 25 percent while others say they have culled 50 percent. I know of a few ranchers who have sold all of them. A friend of mine and his wife just celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary so he took her to Paris. I asked my friend what he would do for their 50th anniversary if he had done that much for their 25th. He said, "For our 50th anniversary I will go back and get her." I noticed for the last several years at Christmas the sale barn employees have gotten me an airplane ticket. But now that I think about it, it was always a one-way ticket. A friend of mine has a son who is 16 years old. Their whole family had gone to visit their cousins. At this cousin's house they had a small boy who was 6 years old. This 6-year-old was wild acting and full of lots of energy. The mother kept saying to her son that he needed to "stop that," as he had taken the 16-year-old's hat off of his head and was running about the house. Again the mother said, "You need to stop that," but that didn't slow the kid down any. Finally the mother said to her 6-year-ld son, "If you don't stop that I am going to have to put you in time out." The dad of the 16-year-old said he was a bit surprised when the 16-year-old hollered out, "Time out, heck, the kid needs a knock out." Editor's note: Jerry Nine, Woodward, Okla., is a lifetime cattleman who grew up on his family's ranch near Laverne, Okla.
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