THOROUGHBREDS SCORE.
*- — srt The following letter appears in tin Australian Hen" from a New Zea "For the information of CM. ir March issue, page 15, I beg to stat< that three years ago I started witl cross-bred fowls, all sorts, only th; roosters were pure breds of difforeir breeds, and followed as near as possibl' the feeding of the competitions. Kepcorrect records for 12 months, rcsull 69 eggs average in a flock of ahouf | 80. I then followed the advice of ten given in the "Hen" and got si: pure Brown Leghorns, penned them result, 161 eggs in 12 months. Sold ; jot of their eggs; raised £0 pullets, i nave this year, commencing June Ist 06, two pens of nine each of above and at end of February, nine months they have laid 135 each, beating all o'. the same breed in the two New Zea land competitions except one at Blen-^ heiin."
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 June 1907, Page 4
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153THOROUGHBREDS SCORE. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 15 June 1907, Page 4
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