May 3, 1920.] 



Agricultural Gazette of N.S.W. 



353 



Egg-laying Tests at Hawkesbury 

 Agricultural College* 



(Under the Supervision of James Hadlington, Poultry Expert.) 



Eighteenth Year's Results, 1919-20. 



F. H. HARVEY, Organising Secretary. 



The Eighteenth Annual Egg-laying Competition concluded at Hawkesbuxy 

 Agricultural College on the 3 1st March, and the record of results is now 

 presented. The competition was controlled by a committee of management, 

 comprising four officers of the Department of Agriculture and three com- 

 petitors" representatives, namely, Principal H. W. Potts (Hawkesbury 

 Agricultural College), Messrs. James Hadlington (Poultry Expert, Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture), C. Lawrence (Poultry Instructor, Hawkesbury Agri- 

 cultural College), A. E. Brown, W. H. Forsyth and P. C. McDonnell 

 (competitors' representatives), and F. H. Harvey (Department of Agriculture), 

 Organising Secretary. 



The committee held four meetings during the year to deal with various 

 matters connected with the competition, including the Annual Poultry 

 Conference, which was held on the lith June and attended by about 700 



poultry farmers. 



Scope of the Competition. 



This year's competition was notable inasmuch as the sections for second 

 year's laying, which had been a feature of the competitions for some years, 

 were deleted, and that sections for standard birds were established. To be 

 eligible for entry into the standard sections, it was required that an owner had 

 won a first, second or third prize with the particular breed entered, in an 

 " open show class " at an approved exhibition held in New South Wales 

 during the previous three years. One standard section each was provided for 

 light and heavy breeds, three groups of six birds being entered in the former 

 and seven groups in the latter. The remainder of the competition (the 

 utility sections) comprised thirty groups for light breeds and fifty groups for 

 heavy breeds. 



The breeds represented in the different sections were as follow : — 



Section A (Light Breeds) : 

 White Leghorns 

 Brown Leghorns 

 Anconas ... 



Section B (Heavy Breeds) 

 Black Orpingtons 

 Langs hans 

 Silver Wyandottes 

 Plymouth Kocks 

 Rhode Island Reds 



Section C 1 (Standard Sec- 

 tion, Light Breeds) : — 

 White Leghorns 

 Section C2 (Standard Sec- 

 tion, Heavy Breeds) : — 

 Langshans 



Rhode Island Rtds .. 

 Silver Wyandottes 



Total 



Groups. 



Birds. 



3 

 3 

 1 



90 



18 



18 



18 

 8 



540 



