BLACKROCK—GRAND CHAMPION STEER, CHICAGO INTER- 
NATIONAL LIVE STOCK EXPOSITION OF 1905. As a two-year-old 
steer weighed 1,650 pounds and dressed 69.97 per cent. of meat to car- 
cass. BLACKROCK was a grade Aberdeen-Angus steer, picked out of 
a car-load of yearlings on the Chicago market by Prof. C. F. Curtiss 
and fed and exhibited by the Agricultural College, Ames, lowa. 
LINCOLN SHEEP—CHAMPION YEARLING AT ARGENTINE 
RURAL SOCIBTY, SOUTH AMERICA. Sold at auction for $1,350. 
From ‘“‘Animal Industry in Argentina” by F. W. Bicknell, United States 
Department of Agriculture, 
