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Even higher figures were recorded at a similar competition 

 held by the Northern Utility Poultry Society at Burnley, 

 Lancashire, where the four highest yields of pens of four 

 pullets each were as follows :— (1) White Wyandottes, 278 

 eggs ; (2) White Wyandottes, 256 eggs; (3) White Orping- 

 tons, 217 eggs; and (4) Buff Orpingtons, 201 eggs. In this 

 case, however, out of 100 birds only 13 laid over 60 eggs 

 each during the four months. The total reached by the 

 winning pen is the highest recorded in any of these com- 

 petitions. 



No deductions as to the value of the different varieties of 

 poultry can, however, be drawn from these winter competi- 

 tions, which are simply a method of awarding prizes to the 

 best utility fowls. As the Committee of the Club observe, 

 "the competitions are not given to determine which is the 

 best breed; the Club recognises that good laying is a question 

 of strain, and not of breed, and endeavours by means of these 

 competitions to make known those fowls which, under a 

 systematic treatment during the four worst months of the 

 year, have proved themselves to be good layers." 



THE AGRICULTURAL HOLDINGS ACT, 1908. 



This Act (8 Edw. 7. Ch. 28), which came into operation 

 on January 1st, 1909, is an Act "to consolidate the enact- 

 ments relating to agricultural holdings in England and 

 Wales." For that purpose it repeals and reproduces those 

 enactments, which were contained in the Agricultural 

 Holdings Acts of 1883, 1900, and 1906, the Tenants' Com- 

 pensation Act, 1890, and the Market Gardeners' Compensa- 

 tion Act, 1895. But, although the new Act is a purely 

 consolidating statute, the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 

 think it desirable to call attention to such of its provisions 

 as reproduce those of the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1906, 

 inasmuch as the date of the commencement of that Act was 

 therein expressed to be the 1st day of January, 1909, so that 

 its provisions came into operation for the first time under 

 the new Act. 



These provisions are embodied in the following sections of 

 the Agricultural Holdings Act, 1908: — 



Section 1. (1) Right of Tenant to Compensation for 



