32 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



A number of visitors had called at the Farm dur- 

 ing the Summer of 1908, and we had listened to the 

 different stories of the ease with which five thousand 

 laying pullets were produced annually, but at the end 

 of this season we had much more respect for the 

 number five thousand than we ever had before, and 

 realized very fully what it meant to produce that 

 number of females each year. 



With the placing of these fifteen hundred pullets 

 in this House of one hundred and sixty feet in 

 length by sixteen feet wide, without being divided 

 into separate pens, each hen having the entire run of 

 the House and no more (that is, she did not leave the 

 house for a yard, but stayed right in that space and 

 did her work), we accomplished what, from the stand- 

 point of all authorities on the subject of Poultry, was 

 an impossible thing to do, and have the hen produce 

 anything. And yet each hen had only two and one 

 third square feet of floor space, which included the 

 dropping boards. 



The secret of being able to work the hen success- 

 fully in such a limited space per bird is in the length 

 of the house. In reality, every bird has one hundred 

 and sixty feet by sixteen feet in which to exercise 

 and roam. 



The four hundred and fifty-three pullets which were 

 placed in No. i Laying House were given the entire 

 run of this house, of one hundred feet by twelve feet, 

 and yet the Egg Record for the ten months, in which 



