EGG – LAYING COMPETITION.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 252, 22 October 1907, Page 3

EGG - LAYING COMPETITION.

The. 24th week :6t the competition pro- , moted by the North Island . Egg-layins ;Competition 'Association, Ltd., : at. Cambridge; -was concluded on.Friday. The"following particulars! are supplied by Mr' A. b; Trythall, secretary anij manager to the competition:-— : v. • .;..-.. - ' The number of eggs laid during the week was 2284, being an average of 27.83 eggs per pen. ; The total number o£ eggs laid since .Ist May is 37,674. '" . " Highest layings for Ihe week:—D. Stubbing (Cambridge); white Leghorns, 37; Mrs Harrison' (Avondale), ;white Leghorns,. 35; Waikato- "Independent". (Cambridge),; white Leghorns, 35; Miss Blackmore (Cambridge); white Leghorns, 35:"Cooke and Fleming. (Cambridge), white'Leghorhs,; 35; Mrs Bostoek (Te Puke), brown Leghorns, T, B. Brpokes (Clarendon, S.A.), white Legliprns, 34; A. and P. Association (Auckland); white Leghorns,- 34: J. Sanderson.. (Onehunga). white Leghorns, 34.' l Leading pens to date arc: —X. "W. K. FaJrclongli (Hamilton), black Orpingtons, 676; JF. -C: Hand (Hamilton), -white., Leghorns. 636; Mrs Harrison (Avondale), white Leghorns, 636; E. .T Williamson (Hamilton), white Leghorns. 623: G. S. Pearson (Hamilton), -white Leghorns, 377; Mrs Boatock (Tβ PuEe),' brown'Leghorn's,-576;'W. J. Sawyer (fteuiiieraV. white Leghorns. 561: Walkato "Argus" (Hamilton), black ■'. Orpingtons, 556; W. G. i Goodwin (New Plymouth), white Leghorns,. 553; Poultry Range (Auckland), white : Leghorns, 540.: . ; :■■ •■ ,»it. The weather during the week was unfavourable; . , '':.'■> .. /;.' : ■'•:..