EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXX, Issue 14982, 30 April 1909, Page 7

EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.

LINCOLN COLLEGE. The following are tho leading pens at the end of the fourth week of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's fifth egg-laying competition at Lincoln College:—Mrs James Mills’s White Leghorns, 98; L. S. Hawke’s White Leghorns, 98; G. H. Robinson’s White Leghorns, 77; “New Zealand Poultry Journal” Institute’s White Leghorns, 83; Miss E. Hearfield’s White Leghorns, 73; A. B. Menzies’s White Leghorns, 63; W. A. Nixon’s White Leghorns, 63; Brackenfield Poultry Farm's White Leghorns, 61; H. Banuehr’s White Plymouth Rocks, 60; A. Petrio’s White Leghorns, 59; J. Ashton’s Silver Wyandottes, 54; J. Adamson’s White Leghorns, 61. The following are the highest totals registered for the week:—F R. Cameron’s White Loghorns, 29;' L. S. Hawke’s White Leghorns, 26; G. H. Robinson’s White Leghorns, 22; Brackehfield Poultry Farm’s Whito Leghorns, 22; “New Zealand Poultry Journal” Institute’s White Leghorns, 21; Mrs James Mills’s White Leghorns, 20; W. Balcb’s White Leghorns, 18; H. Barnett’s Brown Leghorns, 16; J. Ashton’s Silver Wyandottes, 16; Miss E. Hearfiekl’s White Leghorns, 16; R. Willis and Sons’ White Leghorns, 15; A. R. Brown’s White Leghorns, 14; A. B. Menzies’s White Leghorns, 14; J. Thomson’s White Leghorns, 12.