EGG-LAYING.
(Per Preset Association.) Blenheim, last night.
The total for the twenty-fifth week of the New Zealand egg-lsyiDg competition is 2431, bringing the grand aggregate up to 43,550 eggs, fey which the AsKochtion have been repMving one shilling per dozen. Thewiekly average now stanJs at 24 21. The bigbeßt-laying for the week is 89, r. turned by Ashworth’s siiyr Wyandottes from Alexandra. The next highest is Marlborough A. and P. Association pen with 36. The order of merit in the aggregate resu'ts is ns follows r Leger's whits Leghoros from Levin 720, Brooks’ white Leghorns from South Australia 668, A. and P. Association’s white Leghorns 616, Hookey’s brown Leghcrns from Nelson 603. There are 70 hens in a broody condition.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1591, 23 October 1905, Page 2
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