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Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1922, Page 1

Poultry readers will be interested to learn that Mr H. B. James’s Leghorn hen Lady Constant, which in 1917-18 created a stir in poultry circles by winning the Bendigo single test competition with a record of 332 eggs for the year has put up. the remarkable feat of laying over 1000 eggs. Her first egg was laid on April Ist, 1917, and her 1000th on October ‘2oth, 1921- -an elapsed period of four years 203 days. Her yearly aggregates were as follows: — First year, 332 eggs; second year, 577; third year, 762:fdUtth yiSat, 931. Up to date this bird, which has always been single penned, has laid 1037 eggs, and judging from appearances, her days of laying will extend over many years yet to come. In sonte scientific , circles, it has been contended by experts that the maximum number of eggs that a In n could lay was well under 1000, but this authentic record settle's beyond all que-'tion that the number of eggs that a fowl can lay is a matter of coslitu. tion, stamina and scientific breeding