TWO YEARS' COMPETITION.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1812, 26 July 1913, Page 19

TWO YEARS' COMPETITION.

[New' Zealand Utility Poultry Club's Two Years' Egg-laying Test for" Fowls. Report for sixty-seventh week,. fifteenth week of second year.] Total Total for to week. date. T. Kennedy, Rangiora, Silver Wjandottes 3 1483 Roniain Munger, Hutt, Black Orpingtons 10 1290 Hertrtaunga P. Co., Silvertroam. White Leghorns... 28 1687 J. W. Green, Christchurch, White Leghorns 13 IGBI H. Leger, Levin, White Leghorns ' 24 1637 W. A. Nixon, Christchurch, White Leghorns 30 1803 FOR DUCKS. [New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's Two Years' Egg-laying Test for Ducks. Report for sixty-seventh week, fifteenth week of second year.] Total Total ' • for to ; . . week. date. Thos. Dowthwaite, Avondale, Indian Runners .....'. .".. 0 1539 Heretaunga. P. C, Silverstream, Indian Runners ...' 0 1623 T. R. Hall, Wereroa, Indian . Eunners 3 1834 P. Keller, Rolleston, 'Indian Runners 0 1372 S. H. Scott, Onehunga, Buff Orpingtons ■.. 3 1185 From the middle of June to tho middle of July just one thousand chicke have been hatched by Mr. H. Leger at "The Village Egg Farm," Weraxoa. Of these 600 were sent away, mostly in fireless brooders. In these, it is reported, they arrived at their destination, safely and in excellent form. Orders, to Mr.' Leger,' came from 'places- as far distant as Westport, Timaru, .. Cambridge, Remuera, and Gisborne. Tho demand for breeding eggs is, Mr. Legor states, more than double that for tho corresponding period of 1912.