EGG-LAYING TESTS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13343, 3 April 1911, Page 5

EGG-LAYING TESTS.

Press Association .—Telegraph.—Copyright. Received April' 3, 10.20 a.m, SYDNEY, April 3. Another year’s egg-laying tests have been completed in the Hawkesbury College. Six hundred hens of various ages gave a net profit of £221, one hundred and fifty ducks a profit of £3B. For the first time accurate data was secured as to third year laying . hens. Black Orpingtons and Langshans proved themselves the best, third year layers returning a net profit of six shillings per bird. The Government experts report that it is fienerally thought that third year layers do become unfruitful. There is no reason to doubt that they become, unprofitable.