BLENHEIM ECC-LAYINC CONTEST.
A Press Association -telegram statesVthat' at the Blenheim egg-layinc contest' the total eggs laid during the 1602. The grand totalis 60,606.' The highest layers for the wee'k'were:—Bewi'Smale's. silvbr wyandottes, 31: Knight's silver ivyandottes, : 31. The highest •• layers to date aro:—Brown's .white loghorns,-, lOoij-Edels-ton's white.. leghorns, 984; Miss- Brown's black orpingtons, 980; "Poultry Journal's" white leghorns. 970; Sturrook's black orpingtonß, 943; Mick Shaw's white leghorns, 943.
COMING; SHOWS. ~.; .
Entries for two, of the shows .of "next month blpse as follow;—Feilding (February 2 and 3). entries close January 15;. Horowhonua (Fobniary 10), entries olose January S3.
CORNER IN PIG. ' A FEILDINC ALLEGATIONS v CO-OPERATIVE PIG FACTORY ' ' . SUGGESTED.' , i : J.V '/-.'. In an editorial article.. Saturday's V Feilfling Star" says:—"The'breeders of pigs and '' the fatteners of stores in this, district are' complaining strongly against a.! combine ~bf - " buyers, which is keeping down the price of the animals.. They 'declare that; through"a ; ■'•■ combination of the buyers,,they aire riot get- : -. ting a fair-return for breeding andfatte'h" ing- pigs.. .The- price.: that'-is being paid tt ■ local breeders is only 3Jd; per lb;,'whilst the' ; - factories that are -"turning the -pigs into food ■■ ■ .are still 'charging high rates to' retailers'. ,^, : and the latter have to.put'a. stiff price tin ' '■• ham and bacon;for ; -the consumer. . The difference between the prices that are now'being "'■ .paid to the grower aqd the-price charged.: by'■ .'■'"'■ the middleman to the .retailer is so'great that ; it seems to-us an excellent oppgrtunity'ii - presented for 'establishing a curing factory'ia a cilcltiig. A co-operative. movement; among growers should prove,successful,for,.one of ; our well-established '-dairying' 1 companiei might take up such veil. ■ ture t does not appeal to'.local business'peo-
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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 396, 4 January 1909, Page 2
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270BLENHEIM ECC-LAYINC CONTEST. Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 396, 4 January 1909, Page 2
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