EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 978, 19 November 1910, Page 8

EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.

'; -' i • TWENTY-BIC-HTH WEEK, Thomsons .White Leghorns were, still loading iu/tlie 'Papanui egg-laying competition at the end of tlie twenty-eighth week; 1 . Knight'has moved up to second place, six behind the leader, and Sail is a handy third. Kennedy has dropped back, to fourth position. • Tho. total ,of eggs produced during the competition is 39,401. ' Last week ,1574 were contributed. .' The twelvo . leading pens are:—' .: • 1 , Week Total ' ' .Ending to Nov. 10. Date. James Thomson, Wliito Leg- . horns :.28 . 861 : ,W. Knight, White Leghorns 36 855 AW o'. Sail, Whiter Leg- , ■ horns •j. .. '35 850 T. Kennedy, Silver- Wyaudottes . 28 849 A; Smith, .White-Leghorns.;.. 31 847 W. Bolct, ; 1 White Leghorns -27 847 Mrs. R.. 1 W. Hawke, White Leghorns 35 , 846 G. H. Bradford, White Leghorns 37 831 S. S. Steele. • White Leg- , Leghorns ..." 27 825 RangiuruEgg Ranch, White Leghorns 38 822 Mrs., J. Mills, White Leg- . ..horns'-' .35 . 817 A. H. Padman, White Leghorns >...., • •••* 27 809 In the duck division W. Knight still holds first and second places, with 661 ■ and 651, and O. Hammond is third . with 638. ' The total is 6540, of which' ■ 391 are credited to last week,

: . FREE TO. ALL DAIRYMEN. FARMERS AND STOCKOWNERS..' The Wellington edition of STKES'S Journal for Dairymen, Farmers, - and Stockowners has now issued from tho press, and contains the most comprehensive information necessary to successful dairy-farming ever distributed. Specially useful will be .found tlio extensive tables for recording' the daily milk-testing records for the year. Tho diseases common to cows and their treatment are explained in,language that no farmer can misunderstand. Breeding tables,-, seed-sowing tables, herd register, account books, in fact, everything a farmer should know are now offered to you free. If X havo overlooked your name in tho. Wellington distribution, send at once' a postcard to the publisher, and you will Teceive ono by to turn mail. A. E. .SYKES, Chemist, Proprietor SYRES'S DRENCH, New Plymouth.—* ■ Tho Stratford correspondent of a ! New Plymouth paper says'that tho following are some of the dairy factory 'payments for October: —Ngairo, £2319; I TjflißU'tlL £1623: Cardiff, £1545.

OAIYIARU A, & P. SHOW. CHASIPIONSHIP AWARDS. (By TelcErapU.—Press Association.! Oamaru, November 18. The following chajnpionship awards wero mado at tho show of tho North Otago Agricultural and Pastoral Association :— Sheop.—Merino: , AV. Gardiner, ram and ewe. English Leicester :T. S. Little, ram and ewe. Enslish Leicester: E. Kelland, ram and ewe. Lincolns: B. Seth-Smith, rani and ewe. Halfbreds: T. S. Little, ram and owe. Corricdale: T. S. Little. Cattlo.—Shorthorn:/ B. Seth-Smith, bull; Mitchell Bros.,' cow. Ayrshires: Gillies, bull and cow. Horses.—Draughts: G. Gardiner won ill: stallions with Baron. Fyve, and in mares with Daisy Bell. The takings at the show will be about £120 better than last year. GENERAL FARMING NEWS. Strawberries aro bringing as high as 3s. 6d. a pound in Dunedin. The country about Wanganui is looking very well; and has not suffered through want of rain nearly so extensively as land in several other pastoral districts. "The stallion registration scheme is not worth that," said an Australian liorso buyer to a Dominion representative, snapping his fingers. It was the Victorian scheme ho referred to, and ho gave as his reason for saying what ho did that there wero means of evading the intention of the law. Tho Ruapehu, which arrived yesterday. bought fifty sheep (29 of which aro for Lyttelton), and ono hack stallion for Lyttelton. Many parts of Hawke's Bay still need rain. Light rains have fallen, .but a good deal' more would bo welcomed. It was estimated that.thero wero .37,000 people at the Canterbury Show on People's Day. For a little time past strawberries have been appearing on the Wellington market. They have been railed down from Auckland, and are arriving in better condition than last year's supplies did. As tho fruit can be got down from the north with less railway delay than forriierly, the price may bo smaller in Wellington than it was for last season's imported delicacy. -Some reports -state.'that tho potato crops in various parts of Taranaki are "cleaner" this year than usual. During .September" tho New Zealand Farmers' : - Dairy ■ Union distributed £4731 4s. 4d,. for, butter-fat and £278 for cheese (states an exchange). . 11l tho following month, October, they paid away £6966- for butter and £316 for cheese. In September,' 1909, tho sum paid, out for butter-fat was £3786, and m October, 1909, £5166. Butter made in September this year totalled 54 tons ,18cwt., and iu October 82} tons.