Our Advice to Beginners
Our advice to the beginner is that he carefully study the Corning Method as set forth in this Book (and we want to impress upon you again the fact that the Corning Method is just as adaptable to the town lot as to the large tract, and in this particular it surpasses other systems which have had considerable publicity), and then start, either with a breeding pen, or with an incubator and hatching eggs purchased from a Breeder whose eggs can be depended upon, and in this connection
Single Comb White Leghorns Only
we want to say that for the production of eggs there is only one breed of fowls—Single Comb White Leghorns—and that, in considering the purchase of a breeding pen, or eggs for hatching, experience will show that it is the height of folly to begrudge the additional price you must pay in order to get the right kind of Stock. Whether you buy Corning Strain or not, let us again emphasize the fact that no matter how famous the Breeder, or how high his prices, if he has not a Strain that has proved itself a good Strain, you do not want it at any price. It is
It’s “Strain” You Want
Strain that counts, because it includes every good quality for the purpose, and the market for the right Strain for breeding and hatching is a very large and profitable one. The Corning Egg Farm cannot produce enough birds and eggs to fill its orders, and probably never will, because we do not believe in increasing the size of the Farm beyond our ability to be personally in constant touch with every detail connected with it.
Utility, Not Show Birds
We want to write just a word or two as to the difference between a Strain for the production of eggs and of Show Birds. It must be remembered that a great laying Strain cannot be, at the same time, a Show Bird, at least not under the present requirements of the Association, because a great egg layer must have size, and must be bred to produce size, and not inbred to secure fancy Show points, which produce a bird without constitution, and eggs from birds of the show class are small, the fertility runs low, and, in many instances, their hatchability is so poor as to be hardly worth speaking of.
Corning Largest Specialty Farm in World
The Corning Strain Single Comb White Leghorn is an egg machine, a large bird, of vigorous constitution, and typical Leghorn shape. The Corning Egg Farm is the largest poultry farm in the World devoted entirely and exclusively to one single purpose—the developing and breeding of the great egg machine, Corning Strain Single Comb White Leghorn.