Building No. 2, Work Shop, etc.
The Work Shop proper is twenty by thirty feet, on a concrete foundation, with a cement floor. The height from the floor to the rafters is ten feet in the clear. In this room stands a ten horse power Gasolene Engine, and a large Mixer, the second Mixer designed by The Corning Egg Farm, which produces a mix in less time, and with less power, than any other machine to-day on the market. With the necessary meals and green cut bone, in seven minutes the juices from the bone are so uniformly distributed throughout the entire mass that it is almost impossible to believe that no water has been added. The weight of a mix will average about five hundred pounds. In experiments with beef scrap in The Corning Egg Farm Mash, in ten minutes’ time the meals are completely coated with oils which come from good beef scrap when properly mixed. This Mixer is now being made by Wilson Bros., Easton, Pa., in different sizes, from hand to horse power, to meet the needs of large and small plants.
The Bone Cutter is also made by Wilson Bros., and, in our opinion, is the best Bone Cutter on the market, and we have tried all the different designs. Wilson Bros. manufacture these cutters in all sizes, from hand power up to the large one which they first built for The Corning Egg Farm, and we have graduated in size, during the past years from a hand power to the Large Cutter now in use.
There is also a large Clover Cutter, which will cut in various lengths from a quarter of an inch to an inch and a half. The necessary pulleys and hangers for this machine are placed in the rafters above.
Built into the rear and sides of this room are the various grain bins, compactly arranged to reduce the labor of handling to a minimum.
In the Work Shop is also a bench, with vices, etc., and cupboards, built into the walls, where complete kits of tools for carpentry, plumbing, hot water fitting, etc., are kept, in order that the mechanical work, so far as repairs and keeping up the efficiency of the plant go, is done without calling in outside labor.
Back of the Shop, and connecting with it, is the Egg Packing Room, with its necessary arrangement of shelves, tables, etc., for the work carried on there.
To the rear of the Egg Packing Room, but having no connection with it whatever, is the room in which the large Freezer stands, for the preservation of green bone. The concrete floor in this room is sloped to a drain so that it may be thoroughly cleansed every day after the bone is taken out or put into the Freezer. The Freezer itself has a capacity of 2500 lbs. of bone, but the room, under ordinary conditions of weather, maintains such a temperature that there is no difficulty in carrying bone in barrels, standing around the room, which increases our storing capacity to more than double the quantity.
On the second floor of the Work Shop is a complete and modern apartment in which the working foreman lives.