EGG-LAYING COMPETITION

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1015, 3 January 1911, Page 8

EGG-LAYING COMPETITION

THIItTY-FiFTfl WEEK: - The . total in tho Papanui egg-laying . . competition, has- reached. 49,601.' The . -week'i Contribution "tos 1383: ■". • AV. Knight's White Leghorns; still hold .tho'lead: Their score is now. 1092. W. ,0. Sail's peii ciiught up'half-aVdozen on ;.. ithe leaders last week, ■ with ;a score of •35 against Knight's 30. Sail's total is . '-now ' 108G, six below Knight's. A. • Smith's pen, the third on tho' ladder, .laid-29. last week,, and now-has a total of 1076.- ■ The leading dozen pens have scored' as follow:—. : Week • eliding T'). to Dec. Si). Date. W. Knight, White Leghorns 30 ■ 1092 "W. .0. Sail,-White Lpghorns 108fi A. Smith, White Leghorn?... 20 1076 Mrs. It. ■ W.. Hawke, White LecWns ~ 32 1075 TV. White Leghorns... 29 1072 G. H. Bradford, White Leghorns 35 1066 Eangiu.-T. Egg Banch, White Leghorns 33 1051 J. Thomson White Leghorns 20. 1051 T. ICeniiedv, Silver Wyandottes ,1 a'....:.. 34 .•'. 1049 S. S. Steele, White Legs' horns ". 29 103G : Mrs. J. Mills, White- Leg-, ' ! horns S3 1024 ' A. H. Padman, White Lcgi horns 25 999 THE DUCK'S. Tho ducks added 295 to their total, which, therefore, went up to 89C8. . The lending pen, W... Knight's, laid 33 during the week, ami now has a total nf 890. Knight's No. 2 pen is second with 802, and G. C. Hammond's third with 851.

$ The Manawatu pastures are looking t- vory fresh at present. . "Captain J. B. Whytc, of Ngaturi, has [ purchased, some two thousand acres of t sheep country at Morrinsville" (savs the [ Pahiatua correspondent of tho "\Vairal'apa Age"). "Another well-known settler i. of the district, Mr." Peter Halliday, has bought fifteen hundred acres- of simiI - lar country in tho Waikato."