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Obed G. Knight’s pen of White Wyandottes from Bridgeton, R. I., won the tenth annual laying contest conducted by the Agricultural College at Storrs. The final score of the blue ribbon pen for the year was 2,234, or an average of more than 223 eggs for each pullet in the pen. This pen jumped into the lead during the very first week of the contest and was never headed. At the end of the quarter these Wyandottes were 59 eggs ahead of the next nearest competitor, a pen of Barred Rocks from Cazenovia, N. Y. At the half-way point a pen of Rhode Island Reds from Southboro, Mass., were within 24 eggs of the leaders. At the three-quarter mark the Reds had fallen by the wayside and a pen of White Leghorns from Cooperstown, N. Y., were the closest contenders with a gap of 103 eggs between them and the . . . |
