The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himself

Started with 60 Buff Rock Eggs 22 More Money in Eggs 25 Adopted White Leghorns 25 First Use of Roosting Closets 27 We Count only Livable Chicks 30 Percentage of Cockerels Low 31...

Hen Reigns Supreme 106 Livable Chicks--Not Numbers 107 Uniform Temperature Most Important 108 Ventilation and Moisture Next 108 Hot Water Machines Best 110 Corning Incubator Cel...

Corn Not Proper Chick Food 122 Follow Nature’s Teaching 122 A Balanced Food 123 Never Build a Double House 126 Must Drain Chick Runs 127 Concrete Floors Mean Dampness 127 Cornin...

Easy Assimilation 143 Perfect Health or No Eggs 144 Abundant Animal Food 144 The Corning Mash the Secret 145 “Egg Foods” Kill Layers 146 Mustard Increases Egg Laying 147 Mustard...

No. 1, Brooder House, Incubator and Sprouted Oats Cellars 164 Building No. 2, Work Shop, etc. 167 Building No. 9, Horse Stable 169 Building No. 10, Wagon Shed 170 Building No. 1...

Nothing to Hide 193 Illustrations are Photographs 193 The Corning Success 193 Our Advice to Beginners 194 Single Comb White Leghorns Only 194 It’s “Strain” You Want 194 Utility,...

Having determined, in 1905, to engage in some business connected with the feathered tribe, we decided to try out the squab proposition versus market poultry. After searching ove...

The profits are surer and larger. The reason this is not more widely known is because, in the past, few people have been able to resist the temptation of attempting to cover a n...

The answer one generally gets to this query is, an egg so many hours old, and, as the average grocer prints the card, “just laid.” “Fresh” and “new laid,” as applied to eggs, me...

If high prices are to be obtained for eggs they must not only be good, but have a look of “class,” to the would be purchaser. They must be spotlessly clean, and, as far as possi...

To a man engaging in any branch of Poultry Culture the selection of the proper breed is of grave importance, but to the man who is planning an Egg Farm it is without doubt of gr...

Some fifteen years ago it was generally considered for a hen to do at all well she must have at least twenty square feet of floor space. Later, the number of feet was divided by...

Many people have a very erroneous idea with regard to getting Winter eggs. They seem to think any hen should produce eggs in Winter. The hen generally moults in the early Fall,...

The first requisite is to breed from a mature animal, from a real yearling hen. The term “yearling hen” is a misnomer, for, when she is twelve months of age she has not as a rul...

The question which is the title of this chapter is asked over and over again. You see it propounded to the editor of almost every poultry paper in the country. And it is a diffi...

A goodly supply of green food is necessary to all birds, the growing chicken as well as the yearling hen, for it is a great aid to digestion, helping to properly assimilate all...

The feather of a bird is composed almost entirely of phosphorous, and phosphorous is a great aid to the bird in digesting food. In fact, there are manufactured “grits” offered o...

Having heard many stories told by Breeders who were sellers of eggs for hatching, and also the tales by purchasers, we were somewhat loath to embark in this branch of the Egg Tr...

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 generall...

Eighty per cent. of an egg is water. If a sanitary egg is to be produced it is most essential that pure water should be accessible to the hens at all times, and not only should...

As stated in the chapter on “Anthracite Coal Ashes,” ashes have entirely taken the place of charcoal on The Corning Egg Farm. They are fed in hoppers with the Grit and Oyster Sh...

Undoubtedly the ideal animal food for the hen, if it were possible to procure it in sufficient quantities the year round, would be angle worms, grasshoppers, and other members o...

In any business, or occupation, that one attempts to carry on successfully there must be system. Nature teaches system, and the hen, as a part of Nature, is a very regular perfo...

We find, in studying Artificial Incubation, it has been in vogue, one might almost say, for centuries. The Chinese practiced artificial incubation by the use of hot sand and ove...

The Brooder House is built over the Sprouted Oats Cellar and the Incubator Cellar. Its total length is 264 feet. 118 feet of this is 16 feet wide, and the balance is 22 feet wide.

The birds leave the Brooder House for their permanent Summer home on the Colony Range, so far as the pullets in the flock go, at eight to nine weeks of age.

Unless a hen is properly fed she may have been purchased from the greatest strain of layers that it is possible to imagine, and still you may have an empty nest so far as eggs go.

The hens which are to be breeders and the producers of the hatching eggs for the coming Spring are selected as early in the Fall as possible. The quarters into which they are to...

These birds are fed green food about eight o’clock in the morning. In good weather it is fed in their large range yard, where the attendant scatters it in small bunches over a w...

The growing cockerels, fed in the same way as the pullets up to six or eight weeks of age, will be, in the majority of cases, in prime condition to have the finishing touches ap...

The figures at the head of this chapter have become famous, and, perhaps, in the way of small things, represent as great a bone of contention as has been squabbled over for many...

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...

The Breeding and Laying Houses, on The Corning Egg Farm, are all built in the manner described in the remainder of this chapter, and are each 160 feet long. The Breeding Cockere...

These Houses have a floor space 6 × 10 feet, are six feet high in front and five feet in the rear, with a shed roof. The frame work is built on three skids. The outside skids ar...

It is impossible to give prices of lumber, as there is a great variation according to locality. The above list will enable anyone to work out the full bill of lumber required, a...

The egg production of the Original Thirty Hens on The Corning Egg Farm is an interesting story, but, of course, it must be remembered that this record is of one hundred and fift...

Average Production Average Dates Number of Eggs Price of Hens per doz. Feb. 1, 1908 to Jan. 31, 1909 2,040 338,976 .5066 Feb. 1, 1909 to June 30, 1910 2,811 709,836 .47125 July...

Diseases in poultry generally come from neglecting sanitary conditions. A damp house, filthy drinking fountains, musty and sour foods, or a general condition of filth, bring dis...

Our business is running The Corning Egg Farm and not writing books, so that in telling our Story we may have lacked some of the polish of the experienced author, but every word...