KENNEL AND POULTRY NOTES.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XII, Issue 747, 30 June 1904, Page 10

KENNEL AND POULTRY NOTES.

The Thirteenth Annual Show of the Auckland Kennel Club will take place at the Federal Hall on July 22 and 23. Entries close with Mr H. B. Massey, the secretary, on Saturday, July 9. * ' * * *

Mr J. C. Coupe, of Melbourne, the well-known expert, will act as judge at the forthcoming Show of the Auckland Kennel Club.

The Waikato Poultry, Pigeon, and Canary Club will hold the Third Annual Show' at Hamilton, on Thursday, July 21. Entries close on the 9th prox.

Ladv Hutton' has joined the Australian Terrier Club lately formed in Sydney. Lady Rawson also takes great interest in and owns several of this variety. His Excellency Sir Harry Rawson has consented to become patron of the new club.

A cat is said to be successfully bringing, up a brood of chickens at Wadebridge, Cornwall. The cat, while looking for her kittens (which had been drowned), found an old hen with a brood of chickens newly hatched, and immediately took charge of them, carrying them in her mouth like kittens.

At the end of the first month, May, of the South Australian laying competition, G. Leven’s White Leghorns had laid 121 eggs, A. Fahey’s Golden Wyandottes its, J. M’Donald’s Buff Orpingtons 111, and W T . J. Hudson’s Pile Leghorns 10G.

In aw article on the varieties of fowls which are in most demand, the New Zealand “Mail” says that the Orpingtons in the five varieties are certainly the most popular of all the breeds. There cannot possibly be two opinions on this point as the classes for Orpingtons in shows are better filled than those for any other breeds, and the demand for them in every country is really phenomenal, when one remembers that they have really only been introduced during the past seventeen years. The blacks are as popular as ever, and we find a great manv people are going in for them every month in addition to the many thousands *ho now keep them. They are undoubtedly our most popular breed of black fowls, being very handsome in appearance, the brilliant sheen on their plumage being very noticeable. They are equally suited to a run in the town as to a countryrange, and just look as well when kept in a thickly-populated centre as out on the green grass. They have such good red combs, are altogether so handsome and profitable that it is not to be wondered at that they are so largely It is hard to beat the black Orpington on the table for a really fine table bird, as their flesh is white and very juicy and full of flavour, and they are excellent layers of good-sized brown eggs. The buffs are equal in every respect to the blacks, and having white legs, are accepted as first-class table birds. The whites, Diamond Jubilees, and spangled* Orpingtons are all going; ahead, and if it were possible to obtain a list of all who keep these three varieties, quite a large number of ardent lovers of these breeds would be found.