EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XCVI, Issue 14538, 25 November 1907, Page 9

EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.

BLENHEIM. [Per. Pkess Association.] BLENHEIM, November 22. The total for the week was 2408, and the grand total now is 53.128. The highest pens for the week were:—-Sow-man, Black Orpingtons, 36; Shaw, White Leghorns, 35.; Scott. "White Leghorns. 35. The highest to date axe: — "Herald," White. Leghorns, 741; Law, White Leghorns, 732; Silcock, White Leghorns, 719; Treichart, White Leghorns. 716; Dodsoai, Black Orpingtons, 713; Brown, White Leghorns, 710. LINCOLN COLLEGE. The report for the twenty-third week of the New Zealand . Utility Poultry Club's third egg-laying competition at Lincoln College shows that the total has been raised to 25,4i2, and the. number of eggs laid during the week is 1017, mi average of 11.1 per pen. The highest totals arc:—-A.- Petrie's White Leghorns (27) 799; Miss 11. Nixon's White Leghorns (22), 770; J. Tonge's White Leghorns (33), 759; W. Forrest's Black Orpingtons (26), 751; W. 0. Sail's White Leghorns (32), 735: T. Kennedy's Silver Wvandottes (19) 720; J. J. Parker's White Leghorns (29), 699; I). Sturrock's Bi-a.dk Orpingtons (24), 697; H. Hawkc's Silver Wyandottcs (11), 691; A. W. V. Clarke's Silver Wyandottes (33), 685; AV. A. Nixon's White Leghorns (31), 685; F. G. Brittan's White Leghorns (34), 60S; T. H. Holland's White Leghorns (29), 665; A. Snodgrass's Black Orpingtons (28), 656.