HAWKESBURY COLLEGE TESTS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XL, Issue 5776, 1 March 1912, Page 6

HAWKESBURY COLLEGE TESTS.

SKCOND AX 11 THIRD V If. All IIIONS

FORCING I'OCH.i IU-.SU.TS

Interesting records eon'iinue to be made with \b.- 11. ,\. College laying ci ■m[j< titions. In his report iVji* .ianuarv the conductor (Alt* I. S. Tboinp-

.son) writes :—'-*T-ho r^ixu-i. <>!" las1. \iM\v says nrartieally ;'■•• wettest January on record for Uin district.' T/iis year this month lias Ween the wry extreme, there be-ins: jTi-.ci ically no rain. We have I•• re-.-ord increased returns, carrying- l\\u figures will ahead of U'st yar for Hie whole term. This ;tgai;j [»:<»<-!.. i..s the advantage of (in wejiher for t'iig" I"'t duct ion. v\i,jl L . .h\ , the month has been very \<iri.ubi", from extreme heal to cool tr.'iciii^es. Although there was no excess:\e mortality, there, were at leas- haii a dozen deaths attributable ?o i-eat apoplexy. The. death- rale- lor theiac-nth i.>' the greatest for ibis test but much umlt'r the number lor aie.'i.nuary ut' some previous '.ear. 1-:. 'I he leading pens are as fallow : —I'ullet test : Range I'ann, white Leghorns, 1.10 «gy\s Jianuary, total for 1.0 months 1202. Second \e?»r liens : Hillcrest l-'arm, 11.7 ej-is January, total for 22 months 2i(M). Third year hens: .). Waugh, whi':h J .eghorns, 120 eggs for .January and 804 tor the first .10 nion'.hs of the third year. The compare Uve ayr-rag-es are as follow : —Third year l«eu# averaged 8 L.I, eoinpaiMl wi\ h (> lJ last year, nmking the t.ottil f<C>o.7, compared with (jOD.B lnst, yi-n.i". The second .year 'hens •iveni^ir.l 82.1, compared with 78 last y».-ar, which ma'^H 71.5.2, against 708 last year. The tenth annual competition hens averaged. 81.1, compared with. (Mi last year, "making the average for the 10 months 934.1, against 900 last year. The best average lor 10 months was 904, in 19.10. The meat fet-der.M averaged 9'i.L. jujul Ihd nomeat feeders 91.7. The avei-ages Tor the 10 months >vere 1014.1 for moat and 905.5 for nc>-nieat.