POULTRY NOTES

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 131, 26 February 1921, Page 13

POULTRY NOTES

, EGG-LAYING UTILITY CLUB’S COMPETITION. The New Zealand Utility Poultry Club's sixteenth egg-laying competition opened on May 1, and will continue till March 31. 1921. The following are the forty-second week’s results:— . - Single Pen Test (for Three Purebred Fowls). Heavy Breed flection

Tot *3 Weekly to total, date. Black Orpingtons— R. R. Christie . 4 219 H W Beck . 4 154 E. V. Arthur . 6 172 .. 14 547 Light Breed Beetle®. r White Leghorns— W. Newall '• .. 5 198 W. J. Middleton .. 5 210 T. Wilkinson . 7 194 J. J. Rowberry .. 6 195 Green Bros.. No. 2 .. 5 181 A. C. Goodlet .. 4 240 H. L. Downey . 6 212 Master Olif. Richards .... . 0 125 IL- Williams .. 6 213 H. S. Saunders . 6 198 225 . 1 222 .- .. 0 189 • H’ William's . 5 202 239 E. j. Merriman .. 5 198 W .T Chambers ..A... . 5 211 jf.*”W. Beck .. 3 200 . 0 195 . n 181 Q T. Ppm* ................... .. 3 222 . 82 4265 Hum Breed Flock Teams Test. (For six purebred uulleti.) ■liver Wyandottes— 895 Thos. Dowthwaite .. 22 Black Orpingtons— .. 20 882 920 Totals .. 69 2697 Single Ren Teat (for Three Purebred Towia> Light Breeds. &ncona* — N. R. Forbes .. 9 325 Brown Lechorns — H. Hunter . 14 on White Leghorns— H. Williams . 15 596 Ji. Meadows . 3 433 John Webb . 12 634 Calder Bros., Mo. 1 . 15 623 U. W. Beck . 4 380 Green Bros., No. 1 . 10 M7 Waitoitoi Stud Farm .... . 8 548 W. O. Sail . 9 531 G. H. Bradford . 16 £49 Mrs. S. Dick .. . 16 592 W. Aldous ... 1 473 Waitoitoi Stud Farm . 16 613 II. Williams . 9 543 J. Rattigan . 15 501 W. A. Gee and Son . 5 337 George Gee . 11 547 J. Liggins •; . 13 516 C. Thomson, No. 1 . 11 510 It. Currie . 1.5 517 C. P. Bradford . 8 521 A. E. Phillips . 14 627 Wm. Spence ..13 . 659 Webb Bros . 10 497 J. D. Gobbo . 4 a S9 Green Bros . 15 525 ,W. J. Chambers . 15 593 8. L. Beer . 15 555 Jas. Robertson . 10 464 U. If. Izard . 14 614 F Freeman . 9 448 A. A. Hoare . 14 474 J. B. Merrett . 15 574 <J. Thomson. No. 2 . 16 t»29 C. Renn . 13 5ftl Nirs. F. Gorinski, No. 1 . 15 637 G. W. Black . 14 493 ltrs F. Go’-inski. No. S . . 15 590 T{ S. Saunders . 15 623 Calder Bro*?., No. 2 . 11 54fi o A. Jnder . 15 515 F I, R. Ozanne . 8 <190 G. Bonnett . 9 450 T. Batchelor . 12 515 S. L. Beer. No. 2 . 15 612 8. Dick Tracey King . 13 14 626 ' 615 618 W. TT. West T5 R. W. Hawks 17 658 T. J Richards 10 371 Smart Bro* - 16 G. H. Bradford, No. 2 16 550 665 28.239 light Breed for hi» (Between the age of 61 and 0 months.) Mlnorcae20 1059 White Leghorns— Rangiuru Egg Ranch 12 784 ; H. S. Saunders 11 978 17 1006 9 783 16 881 1045 7 11 802 Geo.__ Double 11 792 877 J. Ijiffgins T. J. Richards 10 572 •19 912 15 1011 < 25983 Mrs. T. A. Rodgers 18 768 Thos. Kennedy 801 18 ■ 980 996 G. Bonnett 13 Mrs. F. Gorinskt 13 906 II. W. Beck 19 TT. Williams 16 Geo. J. Wilkins 7 W E. Ward 17 928 P. Brittenden 17 794 957 12 F i a n 1c Col o • • • • • 4 697 28 1353 Brown Lesr horn a— 11 867 Tnf nl 5 403 5125 Silver Wyandottes— 12 415 S.I. Wyandotte Club 16 408 H. W. Beck 405 405 A.B. Plymouth Rocks— jj W Beck ............ 12 378 Rhode Island Eedi— 18 381 White Orpingtons— E. R. Vercoe 10 433 White Plymouth Bouki— L. D. Adams • z 321 Black Orpingtons— G. W. Black . 12 403 W. R. Spror.cn . 6 408 R. R. Christie . 13 484 T. K. Conway . 8 610 C. II. Izard. No. 2 9 378 C. II. Izard, No. 1 . 5 357 J B Merrett . 13 546 153 6332 Single Pen Three Duck Teams Test Indian Runners— Geo.. Bonnett . 7 579 W. T. Green. No. 2 . 4 619 T. Dowthwaite . 7 691 If W. Beck 629 T?, W ibivzk? . 12 746 744 Willoughby Knight . 13 W. T. Green, No. 1 . 9 419 Totals . 55 4427 Single Duck Te»l H. and T. Meadows . 3 189 A. F. Reay . 4 191 Two-year Duck Teams Test. W. T. Green 2841