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THE BOOK OF LIVE STOCK CHAMPIONS, 



DESERTER— A CROSS-BRED STEER. Champion calf at the 

 International Live Stock Exposition of 1909, and champion grade 

 Hereford steer, International of 1910; also champion grade Hereford 

 American Royal of 1909 and 1910. He was a cross of Hereford and 

 Angus, with black coat, white face and without horns, weighing 1,050 

 pounds as a calf. Fed and exhibited by the Animal Husbandry De- 

 partment of the University of Missouri. 



DORSET SilEEl'--CllAMP10NS AT THE WISCONSIX STATE 

 FAIR. Dorset sheep are great favorites with all who keep them. 

 They are noted for lamb raising. The owner of these sheep sells fall 

 lambs from his flock on the Christmas market at Chicago, 



