Housing for hens must be free from dampness. Concrete absorbs dampness, therefore, avoid it.
Any person starting in the poultry industry for profit, and, intending to follow it for a livelihood should begin in a small way, realizing that, like any other business venture, it must be built up and grow from year to year, and that, certainly for the first year, no money can be drawn out for living expenses.
These statements are made clearly and emphatically because quite the contrary has been given out as a fact. Such reckless representations, because untrue, are misleading and injurious to both those engaged in the poultry industry and also to those who contemplate entering it, and should be branded as false, and the authors of such statements should be prohibited from using the United States Mails.
We are not, and make no pretense of being, philanthropists. We have written this Book primarily with the expectation that it will make The Corning Egg Farm and the Corning Method of Poultry Culture even more widely and impressively known to the World, and so benefit us by increased demand for our stock, eggs, and all other goods we may have for sale.
Secondly, we know that the Book will benefit others if they will follow the Corning Method and System herein laid down, and so prove of mutual advantage to readers and authors as well.
The Single Comb White Leghorn is par excellence the Egg Machine, provided always first class and the best strain of birds is procured, and the Corning Strain, without doubt or question, is the very best strain of Single Comb White Leghorns yet developed anywhere in the World.
We know this new, large, complete and thoroughly up to date Book will be the means of bringing us, and our unequaled Strain of Single Comb White Leghorns, into favor with thousands of people who, as yet, do not know us, just as the publishing of the small and older booklet put us into touch with other thousands who are now doing a prosperous business by the use of this same Corning Strain Single Comb White Leghorns, and by following the Corning Method now more completely elaborated and explained in “The Corning Egg Farm Book by Corning Himself.”
Edward and Gardner Corning.
The Corning Egg Farm,
Bound Brook, New Jersey.
December, 1911.