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Indian Runners or the still newer Buff Orpingtons, 

 both of which make their bid for favor on the strength 

 of their being superior layers. Both have imbued their 

 owners with sufficient confidence to lead them to enter 

 their birds in the Australian laying competitions. This 

 is a most extreme test. 



A Record Strain of Penciled " Walton " Indian Runners, 

 Benigna G. Kalb) 



(Photo by Mrs. 



The Indian Runners have won first in three of these 

 competitions successively, each time with ofiRcial record 

 of two hundred and over up to two hundred seventeen. 

 The Buff Orpingtons claim one winning which I have 

 not seen vouched for in print, but for which the claim 

 is doubtless legitimate. There is a certain " Record 

 Duck," an Indian Runner owned by one Mr. Scott of 

 New Zealand, for which the enormous output of three 

 hundred twenty eggs in one year is claimed, and another 

 is " guaranteed " to have laid three hundred and thirty- 



