LAYING COMPETITION.

Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 970, 17 August 1903, Page 3

LAYING COMPETITION.

On receipt of the news that the A toon can honß sent over to part inThe Daily Telegraph laying competition at the Hawkesbury Agricultural College were leading at the end of the first month, the Chieago News dropped into verse, and blew off their jubilant steam as follows. <■ News from the Orient afar comes in on the postal car that the hen from the U.S.A. is breaking records with her lay and winning laurels every day. stuck-up, fresh Australian hon had made confiding native moa think: i» could lay an egg or two, and l “'‘fe k e 0 a challenge through to see what Yanlie he »Ou°r U yankee hens will take no dare, so cheerfully they paid the fare unto that faroff southern land, to let the natives understand at laying they could ‘ make a hand. The native hens in training went, the rovers shrill defiance sent, the betting shortly was intense ; some men. regara of expense, put up as much as 80 cents. “ The Yankee hon got there at last, t laving furious was and fast, so that th man who gathers eggs had to sit down and rest his pegs and longed for hardy wooden • was the outcome of ‘he race ? The Yankee pullet set the pace. She laid more in one ten-hour day than three large native hens could lay, and wasn t trying, then, for the Yankee hen, our ereat and honored citizen. We take our hats off and arise in honor of this fowl so ; Se, this bird with Yankee enterprise/’