THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 10281, 16 May 1919, Page 7

THE POULTRY INDUSTRY

n.Z. UTILITY CLUB FIFTEENTH EGG-LAYING COMPETITION. RESULT OF FIFTH WEEK Special to the "Times.” CHRISTCHURCH, May 15. 'The fifth week of the New Zealand Utility Poultry Club’s fifteenth egglaying competition ended May 11th. Results are as follow: LIGHT BREEDS SINGLE BIRDS CONTEST.

*1 Bird Dead. f2 Birds Dead. {To the Editor “N.Z. Times.”) Sir, —As a reader - of your notes', and being very -much interested in egglaying competitions, I would like to say that you are quite right in _ protesting against the way competitions may be managed. At the same time I would like to clear things up in-re-, gard to the Auckland Foul try-Keepers' single pen and team competition being run in Auckland at the present time. Both your remarks and Mr Leger’s in last week’s issue includes all the competitions in New Zealand. I, must make an emphatic protest against the assertion of Mr Leger that .“Officers in charge of the competitions and their children and relations are allowed to enter one, two, and three pens of birds with the entire personal freedom and sometimes supervision of the plant.” Does Mr Loger intend .this to refer ta the Auckland competition, because in your notes you mentioned grants to both Obristchuroh and the Auckland competition? As president of the Auckland Association, I wish to state that the caretaker has sole charge of the birds under hia care, add he holds the keys of all our poultry houses, and it is utterly impossible except on special occasions for even myself or the secretary to enter a single pen, and then the caretaker must be in attendance. Our association is' very strict in this matter, and qpite right, too, as wo fully realise how abuses may occur. As regards Mr Leger’s idea that no one connected with the management should enter a team or a resident of the disr trict when the ‘ competition is ■■ held,' well, that may seem all right to a breeder' that is prepared to benefit by another person’s work, but’ I' would like to ask Mr Leger would there be any egg-laying • competitions ■or would there he any competitors if the prime movers were debarred from entering? It is because so many poultry-breeders ore public-spirited and willing to help the poulty industry along that we see their names figuring in the competitors’ lists,-even df they^-do'help to'manage the competition where their teams are competing. The competitions would be a dead letter if -things were as Mr Leger desires, and until the Government foots the whole bill competitions must be managed by breeders themselves, and even then the Government officials alone could not manage the competitions in the most: satisfactory manner, ' hhey would need the assistance of leading breeders; and their advice, >th6! 'ffind J 4). the Government-controlled Competitions in Australia. Although the Australian competitions are controlled -in many cases by the State Government, yet they allow two or three of the leading breeders' of the State, whore the con. tests are held, to bo on the management committees. I have always fought for a Government-controlled egg-laying competition, and had the breeders of New Zealand, such as Mr Leger and others, been far-sighted enough: some years' back, we should : have had 1 at least one Government-controlled ogglaylng competition in New Zealand. As regards my association’s competition at Mt. Albert. Auckland, I defy anyone to say that the officials have i'l.e freedom of the pens where the birds are kept, and that any unfair practice takes place. We hold the confidence of all right-minded ponltry-brsed-ers in the North Island, and intend to. cater for progress in competition- n atters. Trusting that this Tetter will l o published'in defence of Auckland’s egglaying competition,—l am, etc., S. H. SOOTT, President, A.P.K.A. ■

■Weekly Total total, to date. White Leghorns— W. A. Gee and Son 0 3 L. E. Marsden 5 24 Green Eros. No. 1 — 5 23 J1 B. Merrett S 26 X. Fazackerly 6 26 Beck and Oakley No. 1 ... 6 27 W. Newell 3 12 Geo. Gee — 6 25 W. O. Sail 3 3 Calder Bros, No 2 — 5 25 Beck, and Oakley No. 2 ... 5 24 Green Bros. No. 2 ............ 6 25 H. Williams No. 1 6 27 Miss Jessie James 5 25 Waitoitoi Stud Farm 6 19 Calder Bros. No. 3 6 25 H. Hunter — 0 0 Calder Bros. No. 1 6 24 S. I. Beer - - 7 - 29 • J. Liggins .... ; 5 25 G. H. Bradford - 6 26 Mrs B. D. Hunter 5 21 Black Minorcan— 20 Mrs Eoaoh . «... 4 H. Williams 3 11 Totals .... 111 495 TWO TEAKS’ TEST. Traooy King 0 291 W. A. Gee and Con 0 B. B. Marsden 0 191 Totals 0 716 HEAVY BREEDS SINGLE BIRDS CONTEST. American Barred Kook — ■Green Bros o 25 Black Orpington— J. McDonald 7 29 Rhode Island Bed H. Hunter 0 1 Totals 12 56 EXPERIMENTAL TEST FOB LIGHT AND HEAVY BREEDS. C. Kenn (Black Orpington) 7 26 H. Meadows and H. Bose (White Book) 6 28 C. H. Bull (Rhode Island Bed) 0 0 Beck and Oakley (Silver 0 1 Progress Poultry Farm (American Barr. Book) 0 0 E. B. Vercoe (White OrpIngton) • 0 0 Totals 13 53 WJhite Leghorns— T. J. Richards 5 27 Calder Bros. No. 1 ......... 5 15 Geo. Geo 2 , 12 Mrs 8. Dick —... 4 25 S. Dick 5 22 Calder Bros. No. 2 '. 4 - 10 El. Marsden 6 30 Beck and Oakley No. 1 ... 0 16 Waitoitoi Stud Farm 6 14 Traoey King 4 12 T. Fazackerly 5 23 J. Liggins 6 24 W. A. Gee and Son ...... 4 19 T. Wilkinson 7 31, Atkinson Bros. 3 3 •T. E. Conway .... 6 27 Green Bros. No. 1 6 25 Oalder Bros. No. 3 0 22 Green Bros. - No. 2 ......... 5 23 Waitoitoi Stud Farm ... 6 11 Progress Poultry Farm ... 6 24 J. J. Kowberry 0 1 Progress Poultry Farm ... 5 21 Webb Bros. .................. 4 22 Totals 109 458 LIGHT BREEDS CONTEST. Black Minoroas- 1 - H. Williams 29 70 White Leghorns— Green Bros. No. 2 ..... 22 44 S. L. Boer .....: 25 69 Tracer King 33 91 . Beck and Oakley . 29 118 M. F. Blackman 5 . 20 B. Campbell 14 60 J. Liggins 31 140 N. Stark and Son 17 81 C. J. Norton 16 82 Q. H. Bradford 6 29 H. BaBll 28 98 tlaretaunga Poultry Farm 27 • 95 J. S. Stevens 17 61 Q. Bonnett ..’« 15 23 E. G. Terry 29 117 h. Oeaime 20 53 C. H. Izard 29 60 J. T. McHaxg W. J. Chambers . 19 25 81 no E. E. Marsden 35 U7 . C, Benn 24 114 Mrs B. D. Hunter .... 27 114 A, Clegg _.. 23 111 J.' Nanoarrow. senr. 7 41 B. W. Hawke 25 81 Dalmulr Poultry Yards... 29 119 Calder Bros. 20 70 Green Bros. No. 1 20 60 W. Richards 21 86 L. Couch ............. Master A. Haler 27 116 19 47

Master A. Haler I™ 19 47 W. A Gee and Son 19 68 D. F. McDongall ...... (M( 29 57 tBeok and Oaklor 16 84 L. T. Wright 5 5 P. Freeman .... 18 48 Mrs Qorinski — .... 81 122 Waltoltoi Stud Form 81 87 W. Davoy ............... 24 52 B. B. Tomkies 18 86 Oxford Poultry Itirm 25 98 R. W. Coombes » 29 185 Verrall Bros 18 58 Rangluxu Egg Ranch 6 G. Gee ... . 20 64 Index and Phillips .... 22 95 A. H- Skilton 7 86 J. Robertson ....... 30 01 A. M. Love ............. 18 66 P. Graham 28 91 C. Thomson 32 MX J. Webb - ;.... 8 33 T. Richards ............. U 36 Brown Lefdhorns— t •H. Hunter .. 8 9 * Verrall. Bros .... 1 13 ' Totals 1169 4063 LIGHT BREEDS (TWO TEARS’ TEST) White Legh orns— H. W. Beok Mrs Qorinski •••• 7 1646 7 1569 J JUggins 0 1450 Black Minorca*— H. Williams ..... — 12 1426 Totals —— - 20 6001 HEAVY BREEDS CONTEST. Surer Wyandottes— T. Kennedy 0 0 A. W. Adams 0 0 T. Dowthwaite - 6 28 White Hook* 1 - L. D. Adams 0 0 American Barred Kook*— D. Allingham 0 0 Black Orpingtons— 0. H. Izard No, 8 .... 21 64 T. E. Conway .......... 20 • 77 W. Blomflold 18 26 0. I. Norton ............. 0. H. Izard No. 1 18 16 37 89 J. Nancarrow, senr. 2 25 Rhode Island Reds— 3 3 Totals —. 93 299

DUCK CONTEST Indian Runners— R. M. Copland IS 6b G. Bonnott 35 150 T. Dowthwaito 35 102 W. T. Green No. 1 31 63 Mrs C. H. MeDouijall 0 i *J. Donald 35 126 Heretannga Poultry Farm 5 G W. T. Green No. 3 2$ 83 Mrs E. D. Hunter 0 0 Totals 1SS 599 TWO TEARS' DUCK CONTEST. W. T. Green (Indian Runners) 35 1531 SINGLE DUCK CONTEST. Indian; Runners — 28 H. Meadows 7 ■ W. T. Green 7 23 L. Wad ham 5 . 5 T. Meadows 7 30 J. Donald 0 Totals 26 86