THE BOOK OF LIVE STOCK CHAMPIONS. 89 
CLEAR LAKE JUTE—The grand champion beef steer at the 
Chicago International Live Stock Exposition of 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 was 1,624 pounds; at thirty- 
eight months, as grand chainpion, his weight was 1,895 pounds; and 
when sold he weighed 1,870 pounds. CLHAR LAKE JUTE dressed 
69 per cent. of clear beef; furnished 128 pounds of fat, and the hide 
weighed 95 pounds. CLEAR LAKE JUTE was sold by the Bowles 
Live Stock Commission Company at 36 cents per pound to the United 
Dressed Beef Company of New York. ‘he verdict of the slanghterers 
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. 
