EGG-LAYING CONTEST.

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 205, 27 August 1920, Page 6

EGG-LAYING CONTEST.

The nineteenth week of the Auckland Poultr.vkeepers' Association's second single pen and tcniii ega-layina enmi>ptlilon <-oneluded last Monday. The W te.uus of iiaht breeds laid Irt-.".. the .TJ learns of heavy breeds V.2.1, and the li' teams ducks .IS? A ■ few of the ducks are moulting, but M i«>ssibles wen- laid, and 10 poss-lliles were laid 111 l>ie fowl seitl.,.l. Kor the first time 111 the present contest the heavy breeds led the li«ht breeds in tin- team aggregate?, A. S. Holmes' te.llll "f -lilai-k (Irpinstnns being two <-L-gs nhoad nf the Wnltoltol Stud Kami , * While Lechurn*. The leading individual iiggregnien are: - s II Si-otts No. ■2 While Indian Kunner dm-k Hrst. with 1.V.. Ini-ludlng a Npqui-m-p nf \22: A. 11. c. Veil- ' nal's No. :! Indian Runiier seroml. with U , .".: and Mrs. McCiillach"« No. 1 W-!iite Indl.iu Itunner Ililrd. with fj-'. In the liclit breeds, fowl section. <'. Thomas' No. 1 uird is Hrsr. Willi l>111; T. 11. l.eil's N-> 1 *ei-oml wltli IC2: and K. \V. ilriitith's No :i thlnl. with Kid—all w.hife I.eshorns In the heavy ! breeds. I". Haujtnrd's No. bird and I{. s. Iliirgi ■ I H>tlinm°K No. ."■ bird tie for lirst place, with 10.- eiL's e:,eh: nnd A. S. Holmes- No. 4, next, with VK— nil lllai-k Orpingtons. I