486 QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL. [1 Jove, 1900. 
Poultry. 
LAYING COMPETITIONS. 
A WELL-KNowN English poultry-breeder, after discussing in the Farmer and 
Stockbreeder the value or otherwise of laying competitions, and of fancy breeds 
of poultry, says :—As a breeder of poultry and av exhibitor as far as twenty- 
five years back, and as one who has made a fair trial or two with every known 
breed, old and new, that has been to the fore these last thirty years, I beg to 
submit to utility poultry-keepers the following table of utility points of the 
different breeds of poultry that have come under my notice. Whilst so doing 
I may say that I take the class type of each breed as my criterion, and that I 
have compared the varieties fully, my diary notes extending over twenty-eight 
years, and covering in some years as many as 4,000 head of poultry under hand 
during the twelve months :— 
A Scare or Uriniry Points or THE DirrerENtT Breeps or Pourrry. 
; ; 
2 | Size of Table As As Size of How Total. 
| Bird. Quality. | Layer. | Sitter. Eggs. Hardy. 
| 
| | : | 
Andaliisian er | & Suan hr bioae S penaliialsS 6 0 6 5 23 
Ancona ge Pe Ext BOP TE 6 0 5 4 21 
SASEOL Bee a ges partrcne cal MN L  oiee ae 4 3 4 6 25 
Brahma... OLR AIT eed 3 5 Se 5 26 
Chittepratte ... 3 | 2 6 0 5 5 21 
Cochin an 6 4 2 5 3 6 26 
Court Patte ... 3 3 5 5 5 4 25 
Créve ... 6 6 ghd ia Seen) 5 4 25 
Dorking | 5 6 4 | 6 4 4 29 
Du Mans seer a 5 5 Bie luastes. 5 vic ee hedt aed 
RAVOTCUIGE ane pu vewe ee ile aD 5 gO agra) 4 Caran Bs 
Game ... een 6 3 6 SF SP Geet aco 
Hamburgh Le Shek ety IE adh) yess fh 21 
Houdan 4 5 ek Nene eed reee() Oily yretoatol ol es 
Indian Game 5 Par moe agh = eds 4 6 29 
Langshan 16 FS rl beet dah 7 oh Gap 4 6 31 
La Breese eh Sin Heard ioe akS 5 i. By 
La Fleche ane G eS per 0 5 5 26 
Leghorn 2 Bye Pt eee) 5 6 22 
Malay 5 fryirrt Fela. Fe 5 4 6 28 
Minorca 4 A: satin, Guar: xp. 6 Bi S26 
Orpington iti D 5 iy) 5} 4 5 ol amy, 
(ROlish eee hated Chai) pee) 3 4 2 20 
Plymouth Rock pie tr5 ya ea) 6 4 6 30 
Redeap Sa tally S304 pal 0 5 6 24 
Scotch Grey ... Rei ow i 5 4 5 5 6 30 
SUS a. eat oh 2 4 5 3 3 1) 
Spanish vit type 2A 3 6 0 6 2 21 
Wyandotte ... | 4 4 4S oly 83 4 5 24 
Perhaps a much more useful comparison for egg-producers apart, and for 
breeders for table qualities by themselves, may be made, and scales giving the 
desired points allotted. Meantime farmers who stick to their old fayourites— 
the Langshan, Dorking, Scotch Grey, Plymouth Rock, and Indian Game, ad! 
the first crosses they are in the practice of making therefrom with suc 
satisfactory results—may rest assured that they are fairly in the swim as yet. 
THE HEN CAME HOME. 
A tIME probably will come when farmers will pay as much attention to the 
breeding and rearing up of good fowls as some of them do at present to the 
breeding of cattle, sheep, horses, and pigs. But that time will only come whe? 
the farmer becomes fully cognisant of the fact that more money is made 1? 
