THE BOOK OF T.IVE STOCK CHAMPIONS. 



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CLEAR LAKE JUTE — The grand champion beef steer at the 

 Chicago International Live Stock Exposition Oi 1904. This steer was 

 fed and exhibited under the direction of Andrew Boss, Chief of the 

 Live Stock Department of the Minnesota Agricultural Experiment 

 Station. The steer was handled and cared for by George Craig, 

 herdsman and graduate of the college. At fourteen months old his 

 weight was estimated at 1,050 pounds; at twenty-six months, as 

 reserve champion, his official weight v/as 1,624 pounds: at thirty- 

 eight months, as grand champion, his weight was 1,89.5 pounds; and 

 when sold he weighed 1,870 pounds. CLEAR LAKE JUTE dressed 

 69 per cent, of clear beef; furnished 123 pounds of fat, and the hide 

 weighed 95 pounds. CLEAR LAKE JUTE was sold by the Bowles 

 Live Stock Commission Company at 3 6 cents per pound to the United 

 Dressed Beef Company of New York. The verdict of the slaughterers 

 in regard to this steer is, that it was the Champion of Champions. 



DUROC-JERSEY BOAR — Champion two-year-old, St. Louis Fair, 

 1902. Exhibited by O. Walter & Son, of Lebanon, Ohio. 



