BLENHEIM EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.
- ; PULLETS VERSI'S HENS. 'A Press Association message states'that at tlie ' Blenheim egg-laying contest the total eggs laid during the week.- numbered 842. Tho grand total is 4020. The highest pens of ■ tho week were Miss Brown's- black Orpingtons, •' 26; 'Edclston's • white leghorns, 26; Mick Shaw's'white-leghorns,• 25; Sturrock's black "orpington's 25. The highest to date ore Sturrock's black orpingtons, 332; A'. 11. Brown's white leghorns, 332; Miss Brown's, black orpingtons, 320; "Poultry ; Journal's " white leghorns,! 300; Edel- ; u ori ! s white leghorns, 293. The first 46 pens t . pullets laying 701 eggs per week. Their . , And total 'is 8997.' There: are 43 pens of - .as laying 131 eggs --'per. week, and their 'H'is .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 241, 4 July 1908, Page 3
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