EGG-LAYING CONTEST.
The seventeenth weex of the Auckland poultry keepers" seroud single pen and team ess-laylug rompptttlon concluded last llondax. There .was another increase In all sections, the yield being 1080 eggs from the 40 hfrht breed teams, SSB from the 32 teams of heavy breedd and 403 from the 12 teams at ducks. Thirty-nine poajlbloe were laid by Individual ducks, and nine by fowls >G. Bn-inyton's team of ducks 3aid the flrsc team possible. S. .H. Scott's No. 2 White Indian Runner duck leads the Individual aggregates with 111 eggs. Including a aeqnence of 108. W. H. C. Vennel's No. 3 Indian Jtnnner is second with 110 ana "Mns. M(iCnllaßh - R No. 1 WWic Indian 'Runner third, with 109. In the fowls C. Thomas' No. 1 White Leghorn Is flrst -with 97; E. 'Haugard's Xo. 2 Black Orpington second n-ith 03; R. S. HijrglntKithani - )! No l> Black Orpington third with 92. and T. D. Bella <No. 1 White Leghorn fonrth with m.
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Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 193, 13 August 1920, Page 9
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163EGG-LAYING CONTEST. Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 193, 13 August 1920, Page 9
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