EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1026, 16 January 1911, Page 8

EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

V THIRTY-SIXTH WEEK. This first results of tha new year—tlit tesnlts of-.a .thirty-sixth week—show-thai half a dozen of the pens competing in the Papanui egg-laying competition, have passed tho eleven hundred mark.: AY. Knight's White Leghorns arc-still'leading. Their score is now 1127. • W. 0. Sail's White Leghorns-are second'with 1120, and A. Smith's;third-with 1107. Mrs. It. W. Hawko's are fourth with 1105, W. Balch's .fifth with 1104, and G. H. Bradford's sixth "with 1101. The leading pens continuo .to''score fairly consistently. ■ Tho best total■for tlio week was 39, mado by '1.. Kennedy's. White - Wyandottes. The total number of .eggs laid during tlie thirty-six v.-ccks' is. 50,903, of which-141G were, collected-during the week ending January 5. The .twelve leading pens have Korcd as hereunder shown:— . - ■ . Week Total ■ ■ Ending to Jau. 5. Date. W. Knight, White Leghorns 33 .' 1127 • "W; O. Sail, White Leghorns .14 1120. A:' Smith! White Leghorns... 31 1107 Mrs. R,- W. Hawke, White Leghorns 30 1105 W. Balch's, White. Leghorns 32 1104 G.. fL Bradford, Whito Leghorns....'. : 35 1101 . Eangiuru Egg Ranch, AVhite,. . Legh0rn5........: 3G 10S7 ■ James Thomson, Whito. Leg- • horns' ....; 1.. 31 10S2 S. Steele, "\yhite Leghorns 34. 1070 T: . Kennedy, Silver; Wyan-. dottes ;... 20 1069 Mrs. J. .Mills, White. Leghorns ;. .33 1057 A. H. Kadradn, Whito Leghorns ' : 25 ' 1021 THE DUCKS. In the duck division of tho competition 'W. linight!s No. 1 pen of Indian runners is'.a long way out in front, having a total of- 927, of Which 31 belong to the weeli ending- January 5. Knight's No. 2 pen wlnoh was; equal with the leader a feu weeks; ago, has fallen back quickly, and has, now been Ousted from second p!ne< by■ G. Hammond's Indian Runners, which have been laying pretty consistently foi some time. 'I'. Strong's Indian Runner? and Wm: liixon's pen of tho same breec .-.re also closing up on the former leaders The leading half dozen have mado the following records Week Total Ending to Jan. 5. Date, W. Knight's (No. 1), Indian Runnel's • 31 927 G. Hammond's Indian Runners 28 879 W. Knight's (No. 2) Indian Runners 1 13 . 875 W." A.. Nixon's Indian Runners ....' 22 834 T., Strong's Indian Runners 28 831 S.' H. Scott*s Indian Runners 20 748 -During the week 241 eggs were added t( , Ihe total, which now stands at 9239. Bush fires have started already. Some , good burns : aro reported from . Poverty Bay.

. THE DROP IN WOOL. i , ■ ' •_ 'i A POSSIBLE REASON. 1 , ' It ; was expected before the last wool - salo' in 'Wellington, (on January 3), and < tho expectation • was realised, that some, j classes, of wool would fall in price. :When?speaking to,a Dominion represen- ■ tative,-one of. the buyers who attended tho sale said:—"When I left Melbourne, things ivero bright. When I reached New Zealand I'got. bad news. I was handed-a cablegram from my. firm to re-, duco .limits thresrfarthings. In the course, of conversation, ho referred to tho fallin wool at Buenos Ayres, and. Arhen questioned said that ■ quite : likely the Argentine drop'had something j to ,do' with tho lower .prices, here. Most, j likely, he said, tho firms satisfied a great , many of their requirements at Buenos : Ayres as soon as tho fall occurred, wool,, besides being a direct benefit to them, was . an indirect gain, as the- slackened demand j caused New Zealand prices-to recede; and they wore then able to get what they ; wanted hero at lower prices than beforo , the Argentine quotations came down.