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these birds never left either house, is rather in favor 

 of the house containing the fifteen hundred pullets. 

 The average number of eggs per pullet in these houses, 

 from December ist, 1908, to September 30th, 1909, 

 was 143.25. Many people who had seen the No. 2 

 House filled with the fifteen hundred pullets could 

 hardly believe what they saw. 



The Great Flock System Succeeds 



The extreme health and great vigor of the birds was 

 evident to anyone who looked in through the wire 

 doors. Articles were written in numerous papers 

 stating that the thing was impossible, and that, be- 

 fore many months, absolute failure would result. 

 But in spite of all the prophecies the great flock sys- 

 tem, in the Corning style House, proved by its great 

 success, that a decided forward step had been made 

 in economical management and housing of poultry. 



We had gone ahead handling poultry in just the 

 same way that any business would be handled, plus the 

 scientific study of the anatomy of the hen, and what 

 it was necessary to breed in order to accomplish a 

 great success as a producer of large, white, uniform 

 eggs, with the ability added to that formula, of turn- 

 ing them out in large quantities. 



Callers at the Farm brought very forcibly home to 

 us the fact, then quite unappreciated by us, that the 

 methods employed, and the results obtained, were 

 very remarkable from the standpoint of anything 



