How Corning Farm Is Able To Get Great Egg Records
The salient reasons which make possible such egg records as The Corning Egg Farm is able to show are:
1st,—Careful selection of breeders by the Corning Method, which is the only proper Method and has already been described.
2nd,—Pullets raised on free range, feeding to them a strengthening and upbuilding ration, which constantly supplies new tissues, and is, therefore, a nutritious and not a forcing food.
3rd,—Housing them in The Corning Laying House, which to-day stands unequaled, where they are practically outdoors yet protected from extremes of heat and cold, for if hens are to lay to their capacity they must be kept always in a perfectly comfortable condition.
4th,—The succulent, green food, which is so necessary to their welfare if they are to lay strongly, and which must be given to them in large quantities.
Hens on the ordinary free range, in the general run of seasons, after July 1st., cannot find succulent green food in sufficient quantities to enable them to keep up even a fair average of eggs. Receipts of eggs at all large market centers, begin to fall off at about this date, and prices correspondingly increase.