EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue 13902, 1 November 1919, Page 8

EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

: NEW ZEALAND UTILITY POULTRY j CLUB. I The fifteenth egg-laying competition ! organised by the New Zealand Utility | Poultry' Club commenced at Papauui on April 'B, and figures for tho twenty. ninth.week ended October 26 th am:— LIGHT BREEDS SINGLE BIRDS CONTEST. (For purebred pullets between the age of 5,}- and S months.) —White LogUorus.— Tl.to Tl. date, j W. A. Gee and Son 5 106 : Green Bros. (No. 1) 5 143 lE. E. Marsden G 152 I J. B. Morrett 5 110 ; T. Fazaekcrley (3 125 Beck and Oakley (No. 1).... 4 153 ! W. Nowell ~ ...... ... 7 133 ! Geo. Geo • 7 133 ;W. D. Sail 7 120 : Calder Bros (No. 2) ... 0 152 Beck and Oakley (No. 2) ... 5 135 Green Bros. (No. 2) 7 157 H. Williams (No. 1) 5 140 Miss Jessio James 2 154 j Waitoitoi Stud Farm ... ... 5 139 j Calder Bros. (No. 3) 4 144 I H. Hunter 6 104 I Calder Bros. (No. 1) 4 . 113 ; S L. Beer 6 ' 100 J. Liggins 5 12!) G. H. Bradford 0 128 Mrs T. D. Hunter 7 151 EXPERIMENTAL TEST. For light and heavy breeds. To l»> I housed continuously. A single pen ; contest, in pens each sft 3in x Oft. j For purebred fowls, light breeds, be- | tweon the ago of 5J and S mouths; heavy breeds between tho age of (i and i) mouths. Tl. to Tl. da to. White Legliorns.T. .1. Richards 7 122 Calder liros (No. I) 5 112 Geo. Geo. ti 7S ±lra S. Dick ti 130 S. Dick 5 141 ('aider Bros (No. 2) .'• 100 K. Mar.-den 7 Uw Iterk and Oakley (No. \) ... 7 110 Waitoitoi Siud Kami 7 12!_> Tiacev King 0 S .1. I.iggins 5 153 T. Fa/.aekorlev 0 IM \V. A. Geo and Son 0 12<l T. Wilkinson 7 IM Atkinson Hm- 4 *.)(> T. 10. Coiiwav 7 145 Green Itrn-. ' (No. M 5 113 ('aider Urns. (No. 3> ti 10* Green Hros. (No. <~> 143 Waiioitoi Si ml Farm 5 135 I'roiMVs- I'oiiltrv Farm I 125 .1. .1. Itowl.o.ry ti 53 Progress I'oulirv farm 5 ill Webl. Urns. . 5 *0