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An Analysis of the Results of the Steer Carcass Contest at the International Livestock Exposition, 1908–1923

Lincoln College, Lincoln, Ill.

Abstract

Scope of the Study

Livestock judging is an art, not a science based upon measurements or other exact evaluations. Any follower of the work of even the best of our judges can not but be impressed by the decided differences in opinion as to the placing of many rings of livestock. To see how close we are getting to a definite basis in our steer judging, the writer made a study of the placings of the steers in the carcass contests at the International Livestock Exposition.

The study begins with the placings of 1908, in which year the live-carcass classes were established. Beginning with that year a steer could be entered in three classes: The open steer class; the live-carcass contest, and the dressed-carcass contest. The prize winners in the dressed-carcass contest have been traced in the live-carcass contest and then in the open steer classes. These results were compared to determine how closely the judges of the live steers estimated the actual value of the animals on the block, a value which must be accepted as the final criterion of the utility of the steer.