EQUAL TO ANYTHING DONE ANYWHERE. LINCOLN COLLEGE EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12498, 8 May 1906, Page 7

EQUAL TO ANYTHING DONE ANYWHERE.

LINCOLN COLLEGE EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

''The Proc< s-s Monthly" t (TJie Process Phc-tcg-ruin) for February of tJiis year contains a most complimentary note on tho Christmas number of "Tito Weekly P.re*>." "The ChriKtcliurch Weekly Press," it says, -has v l'hristmas number which is even ( better than those of past years—and < this means a very great deal. Tho 1 block-making and priming aro equal to < an.ytdiiug done anywhere,"and the ni.it- i tcr and ilhi-tiaUtns (especially tho | i lattea-) are lull of interest. Beautiful. ' j inaguific<'iit, and curious scen.'i-y, and < interesting ji.uive life, ceremonies, anxl : s sport* are largely ropi-e-\»:i:r':l. We ] • are glad to know t'iiat in the office doing 1 such line work the proems nieni are j readers of our own journal and have , at times taken suggestion and inspina- ] tion from its pages. Like tlie 'All ; i Blacks' in football, they mean to beat j i ■tho Old Country hollow.'" (

Tlie official laying returns of the New ! I Zealand I'tility Poultry Club's egg-lay- j x my; competition- at Lincoln College, ! f now closed, give the following totals:—j j Jl. lluwke (Greytown N.), Silver Wvan- ! . dotte>, IL'SI; J. H. Shaw (Rucaricn), ' ' Brown Lr-ghorns. }Vo_ ■ R. K. .\f. Ev.-uis ' <('lir>U-lniich), Silver Wvandottes. W2 ; ■ i .J. Mann (Tomplotcn), ' Whito Wvaii- j <1.-t:..s, !Nt: A. Tyivo (Chiistchnrch). ; I Black Orpingtons. 0:2:5; A. M. Pike ; ' ((.'hri-teiiiiic-.h). Buff Orpingtons. 90:>; > . A. H. Rri-tod (Christchurch). BnfF Or- j pii'igtons. '.)(!(). The tctal number of ' «--g-j;s laitl during tln< year was 50,183. | the monthly lota's ln-i'ng a.s fellow,;—. May l'jni, June US:*. July _Uli*.. ! August SoL'o. September II K).'October :VM,\ December 3ini>. Jajmnrv :>7!.'l, February '2'2QO, March ltj-14 April C.ixS. ' t