FOUR WEEKS EGG-LAYING.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7834, 29 May 1905, Page 2

FOUR WEEKS EGG-LAYING.

(Per Press Association.) ULENHEIM, Kay 38. The result for the fourth week of -. the New Znalattl egg laying compe- "1 tition shows that the productive capacity of the six hundred hens engaged has considerably increased, though aio have not yet contributed a single egg. The totajhi for the respective weeks are :—First week 13». »econd 253, third 2«8, fourth 9»4 • grand total 1101. The White Leo* horns, of Mr Harry Legcr. a Levin. are leading with 82 for last w«* ami an aggregate of 81 ; the Whlto Leghorns of Mr *\ Urooka, of tiouth, Australia, are second with 20 ant 7« ; the Silver Wyandotte* of Mr Harry Crcbcr, Wiestport, third wiLk> 17 and 73; the White Mr Jonathan HodssonTlSSbtie for fifth place, tho bons toln* the k W>"W, of Auckland ltt jiSm and the white LegCnVof Mrs M £row„' urown Lognora* o| Mi w iwk,,7 i Xdnw. are sixth with M ,£*S* The fowls «re being fed 0 n »Uta oftijd usefu. com IW uSS at Lincoln College, where n,inorH£ Ifcrfmental u*ffEL