The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himself
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CORNING STRAIN UTILITY COCKEREL Four Months and Twenty Days Old
BY CORNING HIMSELF
BEING THE COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIC STORY OF THE CORNING EGG FARM FROM ITS INCEPTION TO DATE
TOGETHER WITH FULL DESCRIPTION OF THE METHOD AND SYSTEM THAT HAVE MADE THIS THE MOST FAMOUS POULTRY FARM IN THE WORLD
BOUND BROOK, NEW JERSEY THE CORNING EGG FARM PUBLISHERS 1912
Copyright, 1912, by GARDNER CORNING
The Method, and the style of the buildings, evolved and worked out on The Corning Egg Farm, when put into book form proved so helpful to so vast a number of poultry keepers, that the sale of this first literature, which for a time was added to as the months went by, reached the enormous total of over 140,000 copies in eighteen months.
The writings were the simple, plain statements of facts, and enabled others who followed them to reach a success which, until this System was used, may have been dreamed of, but was never realized.
The literature from this Farm has gone out over the entire civilized World, and the visitors, who arrive in ever increasing numbers from month to month, come from every quarter of the Globe.
The Corning Egg Farm has been written of in periodicals of every nature, and in almost every language the World over. For the last twelve months the requests for further, and more explicit, detailed information relative to breeding and feeding for eggs, the specialty from which The Corning Egg Farm has never swerved, have become a demand. So that, after mature deliberation, it was decided to write the history of The Corning Egg Farm, from its inception to date, including the work of the last two years, which has never before been fully published.
Edward Corning
Gardner Corning
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CONTENTS
ILLUSTRATIONS
INTRODUCTORY
Started with 60 Buff Rock Eggs
More Money in Eggs
Adopted White Leghorns
First Use of Roosting Closets
We Count Only Livable Chicks
Percentage of Cockerels Low
The Great Flock System Succeeds
Foreigners Visit the Farm
Investigated for Germany
Selection of Cockerels
Pullets Lay in 129 Days
Keeping Down Labor Bill
Adopted Hot Water Incubators
Why Great Farms Fail
Developing the Great Layer
Corning Method in Small Flocks
On Large Farms
Manure Drainage to Drink
Diseased Meat to Eat
As the Food, so the Egg
A Perfect Egg a Rarity
Unlimited Demand for Quality Eggs
S. C. White Leghorns Outclass All
Line Breeding—Not Inbreeding
How Corning Farm Produces Unrelated Cockerels
Draughts the Stumbling Block
2,000 Birds to a House
Must Feed Green Food
Eighteen Months Old
Trap Nests a Failure
Type Reproduces Type
An Interesting Experiment in Late Hatching
Sprouted Oats Best
How They Are Grown on the Farm
Timothy and Clover Cut Green
Better Than Charcoal
90,000 Orders for 40,000 Eggs
Shoot First—Investigate Afterwards
Socrates, the Great Bloodhound
Automatic Fountains Essential
Hot Water in Cold Weather
Hens Drink More in Afternoon
Green Cut Bone Nearest Nature
Fixed Feeding Hours
Four Collections of Eggs Daily
Mash Fed in Afternoon
Hen Reigns Supreme
Livable Chicks—Not Numbers
Uniform Temperature Most Important
Ventilation and Moisture Next
Hot Water Machines Best
Corning Incubator Cellar Unequaled
Eggs Turned from Third to Eighteenth Day
103 Degrees Maintained
Cool But Never Cold
Cover Glass Doors
All Good Chicks Hatch in 20 Days
Set Incubators Toward Evening
Tested Only on Eighteenth Day
Moisture
Chicks Handled Only Once
Baby Chick Business Cruel
Corn Not Proper Chick Food
Follow Nature’s Teaching
A Balanced Food
Never Build a Double House
Must Drain Chick Runs
Concrete Floors Mean Dampness
Corning Heated Brooder House
Corning Feeds Dry Food Only
Three Feeds Daily
Green Food Third Day
Animal Food Tenth Day
Avoid Moving Chicks Often
A Corning Wrinkle
Grain and Mash Once a Day
Plenty of Shade
Removed to Laying House Middle of September
Easy Assimilation
Perfect Health or No Eggs
Abundant Animal Food
The Corning Mash the Secret
“Egg Foods” Kill Layers
Mustard Increases Egg Laying
Mustard Increases Fertility
4,000 Layers Fed Mustard
Mustard Maintains Health
Keep Appetite Keen
Do Not Overfeed
Must Have Green Food
$6.41 Not Extravagant Claim
Corning Farm Making More Than $6.41
No. 1. Brooder House, Incubator and Sprouted Oats Cellars
Building No. 2, Work Shop, etc.
Building No. 9, Horse Stable
Building No. 10, Wagon Shed
Building No. 12, Office Building
Nearly Six Feet from Ground
Double Floors
Canvas Windows
Double Doors
Draught-Proof Roosting Closets
Cotton Duck Windows
CHAPTER XXIX
Materials Required for Laying House
Bill of Material for the Construction of Colony House
February 1st, 1908 to June 30th, 1911.
How Corning Farm Is Able To Get Great Egg Records
Highest Percentage of Fertility
Nothing to Hide
Illustrations are Photographs
The Corning Success
Our Advice to Beginners
Single Comb White Leghorns Only
It’s “Strain” You Want
Utility, Not Show Birds
Corning Largest Specialty Farm in World
Points That Mean Success
BUILDINGS ON THE CORNING EGG FARM AND MANY HANDY DEVICES
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