The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himself

by Edward Corning; Gardner Corning

Adopted Hot Water Incubators

For three years we had been investigating quietly the so-called Mammoth Incubators, or in other words, the Coal Heated, Hot Water Incubator, and before the close of the hatching season of 1911 we had decided to install two such machines in a cellar 146 feet long by 22 feet wide—this cellar to be built so as to allow us to extend the present Brooder House to the same length and width as the cellar.

This cellar has since been constructed, with a Brooder House over it, so that we now have capacity for the incubation of 15,600 eggs at one time.

The Hot Water System for heating the air supplying the Hovers has also been installed, and the Brooder House now has a capacity of some 12,000 youngsters, before it is necessary to move any of them to the Range.

The Breeder House has again been enlarged, and, with the addition, a year hence, of another Breeding House, which is planned to be 180 feet long by 16 feet wide, and a larger house for the breeding of unrelated cockerels, The Corning Egg Farm will have reached the limit planned for since the inception of the Farm. We shall then have a capacity of 4500 sterile pullets, 3500 yearling hens for breeding purposes, and housing for 1200 cockerels.