CONTENTS

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INTRODUCTORY[13]
CHAPTER I
The Building of the Corning Egg Farm[21]
Started with 60 Buff Rock Eggs[22]
More Money in Eggs[25]
Adopted White Leghorns[25]
First Use of Roosting Closets[27]
We Count only Livable Chicks[30]
Percentage of Cockerels Low[31]
The Great Flock System Succeeds[33]
Foreigners Visit the Farm[34]
Investigated for Germany[35]
Selection of Cockerels[36]
Pullets Lay in 129 Days[37]
Keeping Down Labor Bill[39]
Adopted Hot Water Incubators[40]
Why Great Farms Fail[41]
CHAPTER II
Egg Farming the Most Profitable Branch of Poultry Keeping[43]
Developing the Great Layer[43]
Corning Method in Small Flocks[44]
On Large Farms[46]
CHAPTER III
What is a Fresh Egg? An Egg Should be Sanitary as Well as Fresh[48]
Manure Drainage to Drink[48]
Diseased Meat to Eat[49]
As the Food, so the Egg[49]
A Perfect Egg a Rarity[50]
Unlimited Demand for Quality Eggs[50]
CHAPTER IV
Preparation of Eggs for Market[54]
CHAPTER V
Selection of the Breed.—The Strain is of Utmost Importance[58]
S. C. White Leghorns Outclass All[59]
Line Breeding—Not Inbreeding[61]
How Corning Farm Produces Unrelated Cockerels[62]
CHAPTER VI
Advantages of Large Flock System—Reduces Cost of Housing andEconomizes in Time and Labor[64]
Draughts the Stumbling Block[65]
2,000 Birds to a House[66]
CHAPTER VII
What is a Winter Layer?—The Properly Hatched and Reared Pullet[68]
Must Feed Green Food[69]
CHAPTER VIII
A Great Laying Strain—The Selection of Breeders to Produce It[71]
Eighteen Months Old[71]
Trap Nests a Failure[72]
Type Reproduces Type[73]
CHAPTER IX
Best Time to Hatch[76]
Experiment in Late Hatching[78]
CHAPTER X
Succulent Green Food—Satisfactory Egg Production Impossible Without It[80]
Sprouted Oats Best[82]
How They are Grown on the Farm[82]
Timothy and Clover Cut Green[84]
CHAPTER XI
Anthracite Coal Ashes—A Substitute for Many More Expensive Necessities[86]
Better Than Charcoal[87]
CHAPTER XII
Eggs for Breeding Should be Laid by a Real Yearling Hen[89]
90,000 Orders for 40,000 Eggs[90]
CHAPTER XIII
Policing the Farm with Bloodhounds, etc.[92]
Shoot First—Investigate Afterward[92]
Socrates, the Great Bloodhound[93]
CHAPTER XIV
Necessity for Pure Water—An Egg is Chemically 80% Water[96]
Automatic Fountains Essential[96]
Hot Water in Cold Weather[97]
Hens Drink More in Afternoon[97]
CHAPTER XV
Hard Coal Ashes, Oyster Shell, and Grit[99]
CHAPTER XVI
Beef Scrap and Green Bone Substitutes for Nature’s Animal Food[101]
Green Cut Bone Nearest Nature[101]
CHAPTER XVII
A Time for Everything—Everything on Time[103]
Fixed Feeding Hours[103]
Four Collections of Eggs Daily[105]
Mash Fed in Afternoon[105]
CHAPTER XVIII
Incubation on the Corning Egg Farm[106]
Hen Reigns Supreme[106]
Livable Chicks—Not Numbers[107]
Uniform Temperature Most Important[108]
Ventilation and Moisture Next[108]
Hot Water Machines Best[110]
Corning Incubator Cellar Unequaled[111]
Eggs Turned from Third to Eighteenth Day[112]
103 Degrees Maintained[112]
Cool But Never Cold[113]
Cover Glass Doors[114]
All Good Chicks Hatch in 20 Days[114]
Set Incubators Toward Evening[115]
Tested Only on Eighteenth Day[116]
Moisture[117]
Chicks Handled Only Once[117]
Baby Chick Business Cruel[118]
CHAPTER XIX
Rearing Chicks in Brooder House—The Following Two Years’Results Depend Upon Success in Brooding[121]
Corn Not Proper Chick Food[122]
Follow Nature’s Teaching[122]
A Balanced Food[123]
Never Build a Double House[126]
Must Drain Chick Runs[127]
Concrete Floors Mean Dampness[127]
Corning Heated Brooder House[128]
Corning Feeds Dry Food Only[129]
Three Feeds Daily[129]
Green Food Third Day[130]
Animal Food Tenth Day[130]
Avoid Moving Chicks Often[132]
CHAPTER XX
Handling Birds on Range—The Youngsters Must be Kept Growing All the Time[134]
A Corning Wrinkle[135]
Grain and Mash Once a Day[137]
Plenty of Shade[139]
Removed to Laying House Middle of September[140]
CHAPTER XXI
Feeding for Eggs—Wholesome Nourishment—Not Destructive Stimulants[143]
Easy Assimilation[143]
Perfect Health or No Eggs[144]
Abundant Animal Food[144]
The Corning Mash the Secret[145]
“Egg Foods” Kill Layers[146]
Mustard Increases Egg Laying[147]
Mustard Increases Fertility[148]
4,000 Layers Fed Mustard[149]
Mustard Maintains Health[150]
Keep Appetite Keen[150]
CHAPTER XXII
Breeding Hens During Moult—Coming Breeders Must be KeptExercising Through This Period[153]
Do Not Overfeed[154]
CHAPTER XXIII
Feeding the Breeding Cockerels[156]
CHAPTER XXIV
Preparing Surplus Cockerels for Market[157]
Must Have Green Food[158]
CHAPTER XXV
$6.41 Per Hen Per Year[159]
$6.41 Not Extravagant Claim[160]
Corning Farm Makes More Than $6.41[161]
CHAPTER XXVI
The Buildings on the Corning Egg Farm[163]
No. 1, Brooder House, Incubator and Sprouted Oats Cellars[164]
Building No. 2, Work Shop, etc.[167]
Building No. 9, Horse Stable[169]
Building No. 10, Wagon Shed[170]
Building No. 12, Office Building[170]
CHAPTER XXVII
Construction of Laying, Breeding, and Breeding Cockerel Houses[171]
Nearly Six Feet from Ground[172]
Double Floors[173]
Canvas Windows[174]
Double Doors[176]
Draught-Proof Roosting Closets[177]
CHAPTER XXVIII
The Colony Houses—There are Forty-one on the Farm[180]
Cotton Duck Windows[181]
CHAPTER XXIX
Materials Required for Laying Houses[182]
Bill of Material for the Construction of Colony House[183]
CHAPTER XXX
The Original Thirty Hens[184]
CHAPTER XXXI
Egg Records[186]
How Corning Farm is Able to Get Great Egg Records[187]
Highest Percentage of Fertility[188]
CHAPTER XXXII
Prevention and Treatment of Diseases[190]
CHAPTER XXXIII
A Word in Closing[192]
Nothing to Hide[193]
Illustrations are Photographs[193]
The Corning Success[193]
Our Advice to Beginners[194]
Single Comb White Leghorns Only[194]
It’s “Strain” You Want[194]
Utility, Not Show Birds[195]
Corning Largest Specialty Farm in World[195]
Points That Mean Success[196]
BUILDINGS ON THE CORNING EGG FARM AND MANY HANDY DEVICES[198]