ILLUSTRATIONS

Corning Strain Utility Cockerel[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[1].Lay-Out of Farm16
[2].Interior Sterile Laying House No. 3, in 191022
[3].Entrance to Farm in 190924
[4].As You Approach the Farm, 191128
[5].Office Building30
[6].Breeding Cockerels, Fall of 190934
[7].Interior Laying House No. 2, in 191038
[8].Panoramic View of the Farm46
[9].Thirty Dozen Corning Sanitary Fresh Eggs Ready to Ship54
[10].The Strain that Makes the Corning Egg Farm Famous58
[11].Three Sterile Laying Houses Containing 4,500 Pullets64
[12].Interior Laying House No. 1, in 191068
[13].One of the Breeding Houses just after Mating, 191072
[14].Sprouted Oats Cellar78
[15].Two-Weeks-Old Chicks in Brooder House Runs84
[16].Yearling Hens in Breeder House before Mating90
[17].“Socrates,” the Great Bloodhound Which Heads the Corning Kennels92
[18].“Socrates II” and “Diogenes”94
[19].Buster, America’s Greatest Ratter94
[20].Corning Automatic Drinking Fountain96
[21].Part of the Old Incubator Cellar104
[22].Brooder House, Showing Chick Runs120
[23].Old Arrangement of Brooder House124
[24].Chicks Six Weeks Old128
[25].Colony Range Feed and Water Wagon with “Billy”136
[26].Feeding on the Colony Range140
[27].Baskets of Eggs150
[28].Breeding Cockerels, Fall of 1911156
[29].No. 3 Laying House Filled with 1,500 Pullets158
[30].The Workshop on the Corning Egg Farm162
[31].The Celebrated Corning Large-Flock Laying House No. 3170
[32].Laying House Prepared to Receive 1,500 Pullets from Range172
[33].One of the Breeding Houses in 1911174
[34].The Corning Colony House178
[35].Breeding House in 1907—The Original Corning House182
[36].Pullets in Laying House No. 2, Fall of 1911184
[37].Diagrams and Detailed Plans of Buildings, etc.199