LINCOLN EGC-LAYING CONTEST.
A Christchurch Press Association telegram states that the week which ended on Friday in tho New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's Lincoln College egg-laying competition yielded a total of .1201 eggs, making a grand total of 16,721:', Tho. largest day's yield for the forty-four pens was 184, and tho lowest 162. -.The following arc the leading pens: —T. Kennedy's Silver Wyandottcs (25 for the week), 629; A. Padman's Whito Leghorns (36), 545; "Poultry Journal" Institute's Whito Leghorns (25), 534; Drury and Rose's Whito Leghorns (33), 521; Allan Petrie's Whito Leghorns (31), 510; W. A: Nixon's White Leghorns (32), 472; li. W. Hawke's Whito Leghorns (26), 462; li. E. M. Evans's Silver Wyandottos, (35), 462; W. A. Nixon's Silver Wyandottcs (24), 443; W. A. Nixon's Wliito, Leghorns (29), 442; W. F. Hodson's Brown Leghorns (25), 437; Miss 15. Ilearfield's Black Orpingtons (26), 434; Miss Rita Nixon's Silver Wyandottos (28), 423; W. T. Burbury's White Leghorns (28), 422; G. H. Robinson's White Leghorns (30), 421; Miss Hearfield's White Leghorns (28), .420. ' ' .
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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 296, 8 September 1908, Page 2
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171LINCOLN EGC-LAYING CONTEST. Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 296, 8 September 1908, Page 2
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