EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.
; ' — : — i — ■■ — [BY TELEGRAM.—rRISS'ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, October 14. , The Now .Zealand Utility Poultry Club's third egg-laying competition. at Lincoln College concluded its twenty-first,week on Friday, with a.total for tho week'of 1255 eggs',' bringing the aggregate' to 21,628, an average of 1029 eggs per week. The highest individual totals of the weok 'wero.th.oso_ of J. Tongo's. white leghornsj and A. Petrie's .white leghorns,- with 37 eggs per pen. The following are .the leading' pens:—A. Potric's white leg-, horns (27), 603; T. Kennedy's silver wynndottes (32), 597; Miss Rita Nixon's white loghorns (33), 592; W. Forrest's black Orpingtons (29), 587; W. Knight's black orpingtons (29), 558; J. Tonge's whito leghorns (37), 557.; A. W. V. Clark's silver, wyandottos (32), 549; :D. Sturrock's .black orpingtons (29), S'ICV-H. H'awko's silver wyandottcs (14), 546; W. 0. Sail's whito leghorns (35), 535; A. Snodgrass's black orpingtons (36), 518; J. J., Parker's whito leghorns (34), 510; W. A. Nixon's white leghorns (36). 496 ;'R. 11. Milliken's black orpingtons (29), 487; R. Sibley's silver wyandottcs (22), 456; W. Stalker's silver wyandottes (23), 430; T. H. Holland's whito loghorns (35), 478; I\. G. Brittan's white leghorns (23), 476.
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 3
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189EGG-LAYING COMPETITION. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 17, 15 October 1907, Page 3
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