No.1—Brooder House, with Incubator and Sprouted Oats Cellars underneath.
No.2—Work Shop, Grain Bins, Egg Packing Room, Refrigerator Room, and Quarters for the Resident Foreman, all under one roof.
No.3—Breeding House.
No.4—Laying House No. 1.
No.5—Laying House No. 2.
No.6—Laying House No. 3.
No.7—Line Breeding House.
No.8—Breeding Cockerel House.
No.9—Horse Stable.
No.10—Wagon Shed.
No.11—41 Colony Houses Scattered over the Range.
No.12—Office Building.

To give an idea of the magnitude of The Corning Egg Farm, there are under roof 18,455 square feet of floor space.

No. 1. Brooder House, Incubator and Sprouted Oats Cellars

This building is 264 feet in length, and consists really of two buildings. When this structure was first erected it was sixteen feet wide and fifty feet in length. The Incubator Cellar is entirely of concrete construction, with a Brooder House one story in height above it. The floor joists were all beam filled, making the building rat proof. The second year it became necessary to enlarge the Brooder House, and an extension was built, sixty-eight feet in length, and set up on cedar posts, with concrete filled in on top of the sills between the floor joists, making this part of the building also rat-proof.

After using this Brooder House and Incubator Cellar for three seasons a still further enlargement became an absolute necessity. Sixteen feet has been, and still is, the standard width of Laying Houses on The Corning Egg Farm. It has been found, however, with the Brooder House, an additional width is desirable in order to give the chicks more roomy runs when confined by bad weather to the House alone. Mainly for this reason, the 1911 addition to the Brooder House has been made twenty-two feet in width. This new building is 146 feet in length. It is joined on to the old building in such a way that the alley-way merely widens at the point of connection, thus making one continuous House.

The interior arrangement of a four foot alley-way, the entire length of the building, along the north wall, greatly facilitates the feeding, watering, and general care of the chicks, without disturbing them by passing through the pens.

The raised hover floor starts at the south side of this alley-way, and is raised about a foot so as to allow the passing underneath of the hot water trunk line, with its perfect insulation. Attached to this hover floor, by hinges, is an inclined runway, which is raised or lowered by a cord running through pulley wheels and fastened by cleats to the north wall.

The division wires between the pens are of inch mesh, four feet high, brought down to a ten inch board which is securely fastened to the floor.

The ventilation is acquired by the use of V-shaped window drops, placed just under the plate, full detailed drawing of which is given in the back of this Book. The bottom of the windows, on the south front of the building, are three feet above the floors, and these windows are forty-four inches in length and thirty-six inches in width. They are hung at the top, and are opened and closed by the same sort of device used in churches for the “Cathedral” window. The holes in the fastening irons are about two inches apart, allowing the window to be firmly held open to any degree desired.

There is a slide board at the back of the hover, which is easily raised, materially assisting in the quick and perfect cleansing of the hover floor. Hanging above this, and using the slide board as a sill, is a gate which extends to the height of the wire division, and swings out, giving the attendant ready access to the hover, drinking cups, etc.