1921.] 



Notes on Poultry Keeping. 



971 



Egg Totals for the whole period of the Test. 



Died 

 tluring 

 Test. 



No. of 

 Birds. 



Breed. 



E'^gs Laid. 

 Grades. 

 1st. 2:id. 



Tocal. 



Averajre Yield 

 per Bird tor 

 12 Months. 



21 



570 



White Leghorns 



80,572 



16,938 



97,510 



173 



23 



440 



White WyanJottes 



AO lQ± 



01 711 



70,205 



162 



9 



155 



Rhode IsIliikI Reds 



19,696 



3,420 



23,116 



152 



4 



45 



Buff Orpingtons 



4,440 



2,429 



6,869 



157 





5 



Wiiite Orpingtons 



652 



98 



750 



150 



3 



45 



Light Sussex 



4,352 



863 



5,215 



118 





15 



Speckled Sussex 



1,616 



322 



1,938 



129 



1 



15 



Butf Plymouth Rocks 



1,605 



413 



2,018 



135 





5 



Croad Langshans 



780 



85 



865 



173 





55 



Aucouas 



7,789 



737 



8,526 



155 



6 



65 



Black Leghorns 



8,757 



740 



9.497 



152 





5 



Black iMinorcas 



593 



87 



680 



136 





5 



Black La Bresse 



614 



328 



942 



188 



1 



5 



White La Bresse 



199 



587 



786 



163 





5 



Russian Orloffs 



706 



7 



713 



143 





5 



Sicilian Buttercups 



512 



85 



597 



120 



68 



1,440 



All the birds 

 Unrecorded eggs 

 Eggs under size 



(not scored) 



Total 



181,377 

 ... 



... 



48,850 



230,227 

 1,119 



431 



231,777 



163 



The egg production of the five leading pens in each of the six 

 sections was as stated below. Each pen consisted of five pullets, 

 except in the case of the Championship Section, where there were 

 10 pullets to the pen : — 

 , Breed. 



1. White Leghorns 



2. White Wyandottes 



3. Rhode Island Reds ... 



4. Sitting Breeds 



5. Non-sitting Breeds 



6. Championship — \\^hite Leglior; 



Averafje Number of 

 Eggs per Bird. 

 208, 205, 203, 198, 195 

 199, 189, 206, 183, 167 

 205, 194, 175, 173, 183 

 173, 167, 150, 146, 162 

 210, 177, 177, 171, 168 

 215, 181, 217, 183, 184 



World's Poultry Congress.— Arrangements are sufficiently 



forward to make pubhc the general arrangements for the first 

 World's Poultry Congress which, by invitation of the Netherlands 

 Government, is to be held at the Hague, Holland, from 6th to 

 13th September, 1921. 



Congress Committees have been formed in the following 

 countries : Belgium, Canada, Czecho-Slovakia, Denmark, France, 

 Great Britain and Ireland, Italy, Norway, Portugal, Sweden and 

 the United States of America. 



A preliminary programme will shortly be issued giving details 

 as to arrangements already made, Ksts of papers to be read, and 



