LEGHORNS AGAIN VICTORIOUS.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 163, 3 April 1908, Page 2

LEGHORNS AGAIN VICTORIOUS.

1 A CLEAN SAVEEI\ AT BLENHEDI. A-Press Association message says that tho .- third egg-laying '.competition at .. Blenheim. >. 'closed -on Tuesday, The liieceago gives the nhme" of tho .first :prizo winner as C. ; ; Hart,-: Christchurch, P-.L; ,(•?); £10. There.. is .110 such competitor in tho lints, and: tho first prize winners are obviously C. TriechartV . whitoJeghnrns.f We-ooiTCot it accordingly,, and give tho- other names as telegraphed. Total : Egfjs. : weeks 1 ' Breed. Pec. 4 days . 1. C. Triecbart (Christ-. ■ ' - church) ; ... Vi.lt. £10 1190 2. H. Hawke. (Greytown) W.L. £6 11S4 iB. F. Edelston (Motueka) W.L... £5 1180 . 4. E. Scott (Dunedin)... W.L. £4- .1178 Sileock (Waiiganui) ... W.L. ' £3 - 1173:. 6. J! ' Law-.(Tuamarina, , ~ Blenheim) -. .• i.iW.L. £2 1144 ";-'A. R. Brown (Napier) W.L. £1 1138 s.'Miss M. Shaw (Blen- ' heim) '..W.L. £1 1125 9. A. and P.-Association '■ ' ••• ■ (Blenheim) ... W.L. 10s. ', -1107 10. Master 'R-i Smalo ...W.L. — 1101 11. " Marlborough '"Her-' aid " (Blenheim) ... W.L. . — 1095 , ,It is only fair, to _fay. ; that 57 out.'of tho- - hundred pei)s competing wero white leghorns, but nothing but superior _ merit can - explain \" the entire absence"of tlie other "43 pens from the top ' ten. As a matter 'of fact, there i> has been only , one other pen ill tho top . thirty. . That was Miss Alice'Dodson's black; :orpingtons. .These competitions are rapidly V .. settling tho question'which; is.tho best breed. ...