EGG-LAYING-COMPETITION
A Christchurch message states that the • statement for the forty-sixth week of the I New Zealand Utility Poultry Club’s egglaying competition at Lincoln College shows I that 407 eggs were" laid during the week-r-’ ' an average of 10.7 per pen—-making a total, to date of 29,000—an average of 763.1’per pen. The,best totals for the week were,;,—’. C. Peterson, black Orpingtons, 22; A.' Gapes, black lAngshans, 21; H. Hawke, silver Wyandottes. 19; Mrs Symons, buff | Orpingtons, 19. The highest totals to date areH. Hawke, silver Wyandottes, ■ I, ;J. H. Shaw, brown Leghorns, 993; J. Mann, white Wyandottes, 973; R. E. M. Evans, silver Wyandottes, 931; A Tyree, black Orpingtons, 901; Mrs Studholme, Anconas, 876,
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Evening Star, Issue 12766, 20 March 1906, Page 8
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114EGG-LAYING-COMPETITION Evening Star, Issue 12766, 20 March 1906, Page 8
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