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Show Year's Egg-Laying Contest. Tho figures for 11 months of the 12 months' egg laying competition of tho Utility Poultry club aro published. Tho competing pens, each containing six puClots of a puro breed, nro housed separately with doublo grass runs. Tho following aro tho total number ot eggs laid by each pen: First pen, whlto Wyandottcs, 947; second ditto, 900; third ditto, 894; fourth ditto, S74; firth, buff Plymouth Rocks, 872; sixth, whlto Wyandottcs, SCO; Boventh, black Wyandottcs, 825; eighth, buff Plymouth Rocks, S22; ninth, whlto Leghorns, 780; tenth, whlto Wyandottcs, 722 eleventh, barred Plymouth Rocks, 7G5; twelfth, whlto Wyandottes, 740; thirteenth, whlto La Ilrcsso, 707; fourteenth, Hon-dans, Hon-dans, C87; fifteenth, whlto Leghorns, 671; sixteenth, whlto Leghorns, CIU; seventeenth, whlto Leghorns, C25; eighteenth, whlto Wyandottcs, C20; nineteenth, buff Plymouth Rocks, GS9; twentieth, Partrldgo Wyandottcs, 523. Tho highest number of eggs laid during dur-ing the month of Soptcmber was by a pullet In tho first Plymouth Rock pen viz.: 22, In five months this bird has laid 130 eggs. London Mall. |