BLENHEIM EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 11648, 28 August 1905, Page 5

BLENHEIM EGG-LAVING COMPETITION.

(Per United Press Association.) > BLENfiMd:/ .August 26. During the seventeenth week of the New Zealand egg-laying competition, 2623 eggs -were laid by "ttie one hundred pens of six fowls each. This increases the grand aggregate to- 23,046, and the weekly average to 26.23 eggs per pen. Ashworth's Silver Wyandottes, from Alexandra, laid .39, the, highest weeklynumber yet recorded. The orde# of merit

for the first three placgft., is unchanged, the figures being: — Leger's' White Leg-'iior-ns 466, Creqk-s W,hit» Leghorns 432, Draper's Buff 'Orpingtons 356. ' Hawke's Silver Wyandottes were only two behind the third pen.