CANADIAN EGG-LAYING COMPETITION

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2127, 20 April 1914, Page 8

CANADIAN EGG-LAYING COMPETITION

Results are just to hand, ears our Otaki correspondent, for the fir3t four mon tlis of the Canadian egg-laying competition, now being , held under tho supervision ,■ of the Canadian Provincial Department, of Agriculture, at, Victoria■' Fronrtlicse.'it is noticed, that trm'pen of ''White Leghorn birds i entered by AFr. E. Hopkins, cf Hangiu-rii F.szg Hancli, Otaki, lead the list so far, .Mr! llopkiusfs birds laid ■!]9 eggs for the four months, Mr. A. Eastbii, of British Columbia,, being next with 383. and Jfr. .Tom Barren, of, Catforth, England, third iritli 315. It is interestinj* to note that the second and third pfths aro entered by breeders who are first and second in the United States comrmti* Hon. while Barren, the third man,, won the United States competition last .rear. The records are not extra good compared tvit-h those of Neiv Zealand, biit it must be remembered that the bijrda are given no meat food, while the climato is awful in.Victoria. During tho month of January it either rained or snowed every day, while the records show that the highest temperature, was 60 degrees, the lowest 23, and the meiti temperature ;lWeg.

-At the annual meeting of the Carterton branch of tho -Fanners' Union on Friday, Jtossrs. H. E. Bniinj , , .W. Howard Bootb, 8.-Eagle, j«u.. .W. Fisher, C.'Roid, C. Morgan, F. Court, R. M'Laren, and H. Kerapten ivoro appointed a committeo for the ensriiitg year. Messrs. H. R. Bunny and AV. Howard Booth were elected numbers of tho Executive '.Committee. Mr. Bunny was elected delegate, to the Provincial Conference, at AVangaflui.

At a meeting of the General Committee of tho IVaira.rapa and East Coast. P. and A. Society on Friday, the animal ploughing match was fixed for Thursday, June 11, ill' 3liv Jas. Taylor's property, at Jlartinborough.