148 THE BOOK OF LIVE STOCK CHAMPIONS. 
DESERTER—A CROSS-BRED STEER. Champion calf at the 
International Live Stock Hxposition 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 SHEEP—CHAMPIONS AT THE WISCONSIN 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, 
