Foreigners Visit the Farm
The Visitors’ Register, which is kept at the Farm, shows callers from almost every nook and corner of the Globe. In Scotland, a short distance from Glasgow, there is now almost a perfect duplicate of Sunny Slope Farm. The owner, who has twice crossed the ocean and come to the Farm, states that if you were blindfolded and taken from Glasgow the three miles out to his property it would be quite impossible for you to tell whether you were in New Jersey or Scotland, so absolutely alike are the buildings in every detail.
BREEDING COCKERELS, FALL OF 1909
In England, a short distance from Tunbridge, the Corning Laying House is again found. At this Farm both White and Black Leghorns are carried, and the owners write that they are meeting with great success in following the Corning Method.
Investigated for Germany
Germany sent a man who spent twelve months investigating the different methods of poultry raising and housing, and he visited all the plants of any note whatever from the Atlantic to the Pacific, including Canada, down to the Gulf of Mexico. He did not make his mission known, and it was only after his return to his native country that his identity was disclosed. His report is of more than passing interest to The Corning Egg Farm, as it states that the Method and System envolved on The Corning Egg Farm surpasses anything that has as yet come under his observation. The investigator is not only conversant with what he saw in the line of poultry breeding during his twelve months’ sojourn in America, but he is thoroughly posted in regard to everything in Europe.
The pullets were hardly placed in the Nos. 1 and 2 Laying Houses, in the Fall of 1908, before we began to plan for the Spring of 1909. We had enlarged the Breeding House again, so that we now had housed some four hundred and seventy-five yearling and two year old hens. These were made up from our breeding pen of the year before, and as many of our two hundred and twenty-five pullets as qualified. We bought a few other yearling hens from different sources, and likewise the necessary complement of cockerels.
Selection of Cockerels
We gave great care to the selection of the males heading the breeding pen, every bird having perfect head points, being strong and vigorous, and as large as we could find him, where we felt sure that no outside blood had been introduced.