UTILITY POULTRY CLUB.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12244, 16 February 1918, Page 11

UTILITY POULTRY CLUB.

FOURTEENTH COMPETITION. SPLENDID ENTRY.

Tin? entries received for the egg-lay-ing competition, which will commence on April 8 next, are excellent. Over seventy entries have been made for tho teams contest, which is tjio best since the competitions have been held at Papanui, and only a few less than the record of 190(1-7, when conducted at Lincoln- The following are the competitors in tho several contests;— LIGHT BREEDS TEAMS CONTEST. AND TAVO-YEARS’ IF ELIGIBLE. GRREN BROS., who have -about 500 birds, and have gained considerable distinction in egg-laying contests, will be represented with two teams of six AVhite Leghorns each, which will bo about e;k and a half months old, and bred from two-year-old stock.

. A. OEE AND SONS, of Spreydon, will bo represented with two teams of White Leghorns of their own strain and breeding. The pullots will bo six months old and bred from two-year-old hens, which were mated with a three-year-old cock bird. Eight hundred head of poultry ate kept. C. P. HILL, who runs about, two thousand fowls as a sole means of livelihood, at, the Omeo Poultry Farm, Tayforth, Wanganui, will forward White Leghorn pullets six months old, bred from two-year-old hens and a cockerel.

C. 11. IZARD. Wellington, enters a team of AVhite Leghorns, six months, bred from two-year hens and cockerel. Some of the loam are bred from Calder’s and Dick’s hens which had been tested at Papanui. Mr Izard keeps about 1200 head of poultry as a hobby.

C. THOMSON of Invercargill, is also a now competitor at Papanni. with White Leghorns, Padman-Nixon-Mills birds inlerbredi the male being twelve months old and the females two years. Mr Thomson has about eighty Leghorns and a pen of Black Orpingtons as a hobby. M. F. BLACKMAN, of Waipawa, is sending a team of White Leghorns, six months old. They are from Mumby-Browne two-year-old birds. Mr Blackman keeps sixty fowls as a partial means of livelihood. THE DALMUIEYiRDS, which have shown un prominently in ilio last three competitions at Papanni with fine speciraents of utility AWnite Leghorns, will ho represented with two teams, six months, and bred from trap-nested and competition-tested stock, male two years and hens three years. About sixtv birds ar kept as a hobby. • MRS AY. ROACH. Linwood, who keeps sixty AYhite Leghorns as a hobby, is testing six pullots, six months.old, bred from threeyear hens and a seventeen-month cock bird,