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A WORLD'S RECORD IN EGGS. 
Not only is South Australia the chief egg-producing and ex- 
porting State, but her breeders are among the foremost of the 
world. In Western Australia, at Subiaco, last year, a team of 
six White Leghorns, the property of Mr. W. L. Williams, of 
Sunnyhurst, Clarendon, put up the then world's record of 1,494 
eggs. At Gatton Agricultural College this year Mr. A. H. Pad- 
man, of Hyde Park, succeeded in putting up the existing world's 
record to 1,538 eggs from six hens. At Roseworthy a world's 
record for two pens — over 1,500 eggs for 12 months — was put 
up by two owners — Mrs. A. E. Kinnear, with 1,531, and Mr. 
A. H. Padman, with 1,528. These figures are very close to the 
Gatton total. Mr. Padman has won the contest at Berowra, and 
is leading at Subiaco. Mr. T. B. Brooks entered for New Zea- 
land last year, and with the help of the birds he supplied to others 
succeeded in capturing the first five places. He was the winner 
at Blenheim, with 1,409 eggs to his credit. The day is not far 
distant when we shall have scores of breeders with birds of this 
description. The ordinary- mongrel hen rarely lays 150 eggs a 
year, and yet here are two lots of six hens laying £5 6s. worth 
of eggs in a year, valued at wholesale market rates. — Journal of 
Agriculture, S. Australia. 
AN UNUSUAL OPPORTUNITY. 
The American Foresty Association, feeling that its duty is ener- 
getically to preach to a greater audience the larger gospel of con- 
servation, not only of our forests but of all our natural resources, 
is offering trial subscriptions to its monthly journal, "Forestry 
and Irrigation," for six months, for twenty-five cents. 
Those who are not already members of the Association should 
not fail to take advantage of this offer, for from the six numbers 
that will come to them they will learn much of the aims and spirit 
of national forest work. 
Subscriptions can be sent to the Association, 131 1 G. St., N. 
W., Washington, D. C, or may be handed to Mr. Ralph S. 
Hosmer, Box 331, Honolulu, to be forwarded. 
