EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS.
The egg-laying competition is to the poultry-raiser what cow-testing is to the dairyman. It enables the producer to cull his flock and! keep only tlie paying birds. The. Americans have been paying great attention to . poul-try-raising, but it was only recently that tliey followed the example of New Zealand, and institute egg-tej-
mg competitions. Th 0 remit of tho iiivit competition wa»s that tlio leading pen aveiaged 208 eggs for tlie period. .Flus i e;x>i'<;{ has ix.'Oii easily boa,ton in Now Zealand, tho top jwri at tho last bhristchurch competition averaging over 253 eggs per hen. The Americans used trap-nests, and found that the champion layer ww a Whit.. Plymouth Rock. This bird produced 281 eggs. It would bo well, perhaps, if trannest (system mo re adopted in Not Zealand, so that the average of individual birds, as well as individual pens, might be ascertained. By the way, w hen are we to have an egg-lay-ing competition in tlio Wairarapa ?
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 4
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162EGG-LAYING COMPETITIONS. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 13 March 1913, Page 4
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