Orders for hatching eggs are booked by such a system that people receive them when we agree to deliver the goods, and the illustration herewith plainly shows the plan.
$ ........SUNNY SLOPE FARMNo.
THE GREAT CORNING EGG FARM
BREEDERS OF THE STRAIN OF S. C. WHITE LEGHORNS
WHICH CANNOT BE SURPASSED
BOUND BROOK, N. J. .................... 191
Received of.............................................
....................................................Dollars
FOR ........... S. C. W. LEGHORN EGGS FOR HATCHING. THESE
EGGS ARE TO BE SHIPPED BY EXPRESS ON OR ABOUT THE
.................. DAY OF .................... 191..
THE CORNING EGG FARM
BY ....................
CHAPTER XIII
Policing the Farm—With Bloodhounds, Searchlights and Rifles
In the Fall of each year, from almost every part of the Country, come reports of what seems to be organized thieving in the poultry line. Both large and small farms are generally sufferers. For a number of years people in the vicinity of the The Corning Egg Farm have met with losses, and in the year 1910 an organized gang was unearthed, which had a camp on the adjacent hills, and made nightly raids, then shipped the birds by crossing the Watchung Mountains and reaching railroad communication on the other side, sending their stolen feathered plunder into the New York Market.