90,000 Orders for 40,000 Eggs
During the season of 1910 we sold something over 40,000 eggs and returned money for about 50,000 beyond our ability to supply. The result was that many people who were disappointed booked orders at very early dates in 1910 for hatching eggs for the season of 1911.
Our experience was quite the reverse from the stories we had been told. Of course, in doing a large business, it is not possible to satisfy everyone, and then, unfortunately, there are some people who are extremely fond of attempting to get something for nothing, and you receive statements regarding orders which have been filled, which when investigated, prove to be somewhat different from what you were at first led to believe.
The fertility of our eggs was such that it was almost impossible for anyone to make a complaint, and the hatching season of 1910, both at the Farm and for our customers, was a most successful one.
For the season of 1911 we were able to increase our breeding facilities considerably over 1910, but we were even more unable to meet the demands upon us for hatching eggs, than in the previous season. The results of this year were quite as satisfactory as for the previous, and for the season of 1912 the Farm will be in a position to fill more orders than ever before, as we have been able to make a still greater increase on the breeding side.
YEARLING HENS IN BREEDER HOUSE BEFORE MATING READY FOR 1912
Orders for hatching eggs are booked by such a system that people receive them when we agree to deliver the goods, and the illustration herewith plainly shows the plan.
$ ........SUNNY SLOPE FARMNo.
THE GREAT CORNING EGG FARM
BREEDERS OF THE STRAIN OF S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS
WHICH CANNOT BE SURPASSED
BOUND BROOK, N. J. .................... 191
Received of.............................................
....................................................Dollars
FOR ........... S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCHING. THESE
EGGS ARE TO BE SHIPPED BY EXPRESS ON OR ABOUT THE
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THE CORNING EGG FARM
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CHAPTER XIII
Policing the Farm—With Bloodhounds, Searchlights and Rifles
In the Fall of each year, from almost every part of the Country, come reports of what seems to be organized thieving in the poultry line. Both large and small farms are generally sufferers. For a number of years people in the vicinity of the The Corning Egg Farm have met with losses, and in the year 1910 an organized gang was unearthed, which had a camp on the adjacent hills, and made nightly raids, then shipped the birds by crossing the Watchung Mountains and reaching railroad communication on the other side, sending their stolen feathered plunder into the New York Market.