LINCOLN ECC-LAYING CONTEST.
'/ In tho sixteenth week'of the New Zoaland Utility' Poultry Club's fourth egg-laying 'competition' at Lincoln College : (says', a Christchiirch Press Association message), the ' eggs laid; in the week ended "Friday numbered 931.' :Tlie aggregate'is 10,574. The total for the'week was,, very good, being.an increase of 288 on the average weekly total atVthe.'ond of,,the previous week. The aver-, 'age per week;is.now 661, and the average 'per pen is'24o.. The leading peri ! has lsiid 450 eggs, and the lowest on tlio list "has laid i 7: - '.The following; are the leading peris, .with .last"week's'totals in parentheses i-rrT. Kennedy's silver wyandottes' (30), 450; '"Poultry Journal's " white"leghorns (23), 386';' A'. Pailman's white leghorns .(25), 380;. Drury- and 'Rose's white leghorns (23),'251; W. Sail's white leghorns (31), 334; R. :W. Hawke's white leghorns • (24),. 329; A.' Petrie's white leghorns- (22), •325;~AV.,i A. ; Nixon's- white leghorns (27), 319; W. F. Hodson's brown leghorns (23), 315; R.'E. M. Evans's silver wyandottes.(22), .307,: W. A. Nixon's whito leghorns' (17), -307-; r Wi"iE. Burbury's white leghorns (23), 301. , .' -' 7
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 261, 28 July 1908, Page 3
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173LINCOLN ECC-LAYING CONTEST. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 261, 28 July 1908, Page 3
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