EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 891, 10 August 1910, Page 10

EGG-LAYING COMPETITION.

''.; ' EOm^ENTH'"WEEK. '' ! ' ; - ■■■'; There were-Bbme interesting changes' in the';positjto's''ofithe'leaduig-ipenMih :: ' ■ the Papanurtgg-laying'comje.tition'sdur---..ing last-week. '-C; H." Robinson's'pens whiohvhad been in the van awhile have been-'graduaUy overhauled, and'VT. Kennedy's Silver Wyandottes are now .. shead/'while James Thomson's White have moved up to fourth •■ 'position. During the week,, which was . the fourteenth of the competition, i: i437i \ eggs i.were laid, sending the total .upV'to'' 15,958;' The leading dozen pensV-have .' score_das follows:— . ■..>' >v '.'•I '-,i Week ; tTotal ''■.'. • ending _ to ~ ;;'.■: •," ■■:' Aug. 4. "."ida'fe.'. T. Ke'nnedy's. Silver Wy- . andotfes : ..'... 31 414 G. H.■Eobinson, White , ■' . ....•'■' Leghorns 25 411 fi. H." Robinson,-', Black : • Orpingtons 27 '■': : ''4fßJanies 'Thomson/Whito ' '•■■' i 'Leghorns 32 408 Mrs. Jt,. ' W: Hawke, .White; Leghorns 29 ... 381 '.' N. Solomon, White Leg- '. " .horns' .:. : '^..\.. i ,-30'.-l"" , v- ! '3§0'' •J. A:;Corrie, White'Le'g- ■■, ; A J Jl:?■■"■ horns : 29 378 A. W: ; '-Vv Clarke, Silver '. • Wya'ndottea ............ 34 375 W. O. Sail, White Leg- . ." ■ horns' 31 '' 369 ,W. Knight, Whito Leg- . horns ,32 367 W. Balch, Whito Leghorns I. 33 367 A. Smith, White Leg- ' horns; 33' • . 366-In;-the duck competition, 168 eggs wero produced during the week, and. the total is now 1175. W.'Knight's Itt=' ■ dian -Runners (220) are leading, W. A. Nixon's Indian Runners (183) second, and Tv.'Dowthwaite's Indian Runners (182) third. The most .scored in/:the' 1 week was 34, credited to C. Hammond's pen. 'Mrs. T. M. Lucy's scored 32. , The leading pens are not laying so well just now as some lower on the list.

In'/the course of tho annual report of the':Egmont Box Company (Eltham). it is stated that after allowing for'depreciation of buildings and plant, amounting to £93 los. 3d., and oxhaust<jd bush, £500, there remains tho, sum lof £1333 4s. to bo dealt' ; 'with. The directors recommend tho payment of 6 per cent, per annum on all paidup capital, £924 3s. 6d.,..leaving tho balance to bo carried forward. A leasehold of 34 acres having a front-ago on the- Main Trunk lino of so'mo 40 chains. has been secured by the conipany.:and stops taken by which tho company JhtHrc. the..assurauco .of siding afc:a;-con.vcnieiit'''sp6t I iilongsiclo' the leaseh'old/in'ciuestion "■"■. "■".*'.