The salient reasons which make possible such egg records as The Corning Egg Farm is able to show are:
1st,—Careful selection of breeders by the Corning Method, which is the only proper Method and has already been described.
2nd,—Pullets raised on free range, feeding to them a strengthening and upbuilding ration, which constantly supplies new tissues, and is, therefore, a nutritious and not a forcing food.
3rd,—Housing them in The Corning Laying House, which to-day stands unequaled, where they are practically outdoors yet protected from extremes of heat and cold, for if hens are to lay to their capacity they must be kept always in a perfectly comfortable condition.
4th,—The succulent, green food, which is so necessary to their welfare if they are to lay strongly, and which must be given to them in large quantities.
Hens on the ordinary free range, in the general run of seasons, after July 1st., cannot find succulent green food in sufficient quantities to enable them to keep up even a fair average of eggs. Receipts of eggs at all large market centers, begin to fall off at about this date, and prices correspondingly increase.
Highest Percentage of Fertility
Every observer, viewing the stock of The Corning Egg Farm, is at once convinced that the scientific Method here employed produces better birds than any other. The steady increase, from year to year, in the hatchability of the eggs towards full fertility; the strong, livable chicks, their rapid growth to maturity; and the voluntary testimony given by our customers whose ever increasing orders come back to us, year after year, all conclusively establish the fact that hens bred and raised by The Corning Method are unequaled anywhere.
For the last two years hatching eggs have been shipped from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Northern part of Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and even across the Atlantic to far away Scotland. From this widely extended territory comes the unsolicited testimony that The Corning Strain of Single Comb White Leghorns is unequaled.
At the present time the amount of labor carried on The Corning Egg Farm is one working foreman and three laborers. The latter are $1.50 a day men, and, with this force all the work of the farm is accomplished. The Houses are thoroughly cleaned, as to the dropping boards, drinking fountain stands, tops of nests, and the inside of nests where required, every day in the week and three hundred and sixty-five days in the year.