UTILITY POULTRY CLUB'S FIRST COMPETITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 2722, 16 May 1906, Page 32

UTILITY POULTRY CLUB'S FIRST COMPETITION.

The following are the prize-winners in the first -"ompetition : — First prize, £10, H. Hawke; second prize, £5, J. H. Shaw; third prize. £3. R. E. M. Evans; fourth prize, £2 10s, John Mann; fifth prize, £2, Alfred Tyree; sixth prize, El 10s, A. M. Price. Winners of monthly prizes of £1 : —May, H. Hawke, 125 eggs; June, H. Hawke; 113; July, E. Hawke, 112; August, Mra Studholme, 123; September, G. Rollinson. 144; October, B Bcott, 136; November, E. Scott, 119; December, Mra Mills, 103; January, J. H. Shaw 1 , 1.06; February, H. Hawke. 91; March, H. H*wke, 87; April, H. Hawke. 82. Winners of quarterly prizes:— May- July, Reliable incubator (presented by MessTS Mason, Struthers, and Co.. Chri«tchurch), H. Hawke, 359 eggs; August-October, Prairie State incubator (presanted by Messr3 E. Recce *nd Sons, ,Christchurch), J. H. Shaw. 380 eggs; November-January, Victoria incubator (presented by Messrs Ninvmo and Blair, Dunedin), J. H. .Shaw, 312 eggs ; February-April, Cyphers incubator (presented by Triton Pountey Supply Co., Dun«din), H. Hawke, 260 eggs. Winners of winter test: — May-October, First prize. £3, H. Hawke. 729 eggs; second prize, £2, John Mann. 614 eggs. Winners of summer test: — November- April. First prize, £8, H. Hawke, 552 eggs; second prize, £2, J. H. Shaw, 435 eggs. J DIRECTOR'S REPORT. The following is the report of the director, Mr W. Lowrie: — "Canterbury Agricultural College, Lincoln. " I enclose herewith the balance-sheet for the year for egg-laying competition just closed. You will notice that in ihe balancesheet the cost of feeding spare pullets and returns from sales of eggs from spare pullets •re included. After deducting the proportion of the cost of feeding for spare pullets I find that the average return per bird in the competition is Us lljd per sales of eggs ; cost for feed is 5s ll^d; the profit per bird, therefore, from all fowls in competition is 6s lljd. If we take the leading pen we find j K , / e?gs w * re for 19s 33 d Per bird, I and deducting the average cost. 5s lljd. there is left 13s 4d per bird as profit, less, of courss, ' cost of management. On the other hand., if | £*J? c £\ l0 TA St ? en> tbe eßßse BB s yielded II $m Ch - *»*»*»« the average cost. 5s lljd shows a profit of 2s 4Jd for each bird. Thus the poorest birds in the competition leturned m sales of eggs the cost of food and £%£^W? h » t Sllbmi T t * ed j™ will be able to *»c clearly the several items of co=t." The

balance-sheet is as follows : — Expenditure — Pea meal, 9761b, at 3s 3d per bushel, £2 13s 2d ; bran, 31141b, at £3 10s per ton, £4 19s; sharps, 33601b, at £3 las per ton, £d 13s 2d ; peas, 15681b, at 3s 3d per bushel, £4 2s 8d ; oats, 47111b, at Is 8d per bushel, £9 16s 3d; sproats, 2371b, at £1 per ton. 4s; maize. 6341b, at 3s 9d per bushel, £2 8s 3d; wheat. 73741b, at 2s lOd per bushel, £17 8s 6d; liver, 15711b, at ljd per lb, £9 16s 4d, and 6G7lb, at Id, £2 15s 7d; green bone, 4231b, at Id, £1 15s 3d. Total food, £65 12s 2d; coal, £4 Is lOd; grit, £1 13s ; disinfectants and foundries, £1 ; wages to attendants, £25; half surplus paid to college, £23 15s 2d ; balance. £23 15s 2d ; total. £144 17s sd. Receipts— Sales of eggs: 32,094 eggs at Is Id per dozen, £144 17s sd. I In a test held over the same period at the Goverrment Poultry Farm, Burnhaof, the results were : — Brown Leghorn, 1096 eggs ; white Leghorn, 1026; buiff Orpington, 992; black Orpington, 691 ; white Wyandotte, 874 ; golden Wyandotte, 822; Minorca, 798. The birds were not first-class specimens, golden Wyandottes being only 4J to 6 months old, and one died on January 4, since when there were only five in the pen. Birds o!<[ enough were used for breeding till December 1. and only fed blood for tvrc months, when it was eased off to let them through the moult. Only ten pens were shut up for another teat, silver Wyandoites, Andalusians, and Langshans being added.