NEW ZEALAND EGG-LAYING COMPETITION
" B (Per Press Association.) BLENHEIM, Oct. 1. Tho total for the twenty-second week of the New Zealand egg-laying competition is 2773, which is a record. This brings the grand total up. to 85,1)05, and the weekly average of 271.73 eggs per pen. To-day completes the fifth month of the competition. The prize for the month was taken by, E. Tralierne's Black Orpingtons from, Ohristehurch, which arc credited with 152, this being a record. The second place is filled Iby Mickshaw's White Leghorns from Blenheim, with 148 • and for third place there is a tic 137 being returned by tiolh Murphy's rosecomb Black Orpingtons and J. nances White Leghorns, from Bl c n- ; icim. The total for the month is i„' ~ C sf- Ia ,hc e ran(l aggregate V n l K U $ m ™ fl 'om Levin n -nA, . ,r, a( Ing a,ro "gly with G3O ; B oo,s White Leghorns, from South Austialia, second with 585; MarlE" g \ A - ? mIP - I' c " ot Wi,ite Leg. wins, third with 511;-Hookey'. wilHis I "'^ orns . horn Nelson, fourth 'with 508 'there are 48 hens in the broody department.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7940, 2 October 1905, Page 2
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188NEW ZEALAND EGG-LAYING COMPETITION Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7940, 2 October 1905, Page 2
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