36 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



The pullets were hardly placed in the Nos. i and 2 

 Laying Houses, in the Fall of 1908, before we began 

 to plan for the Spring of 1909. We had enlarged the 

 Breeding House again, so that we now had housed 

 some four hundred and seventy-five yearling and two 

 year old hens. These were made up from our breed- 

 ing pen of the year before, and as many of our two 

 hundred and twenty-five pullets as qualified. We 

 bought a few other yearling hens from different 

 sources, and likewise the necessary complement of 

 cockerels. 



Selection of Cockerels 



We gave great care to the selection of the males 

 heading the breeding pen, every bird having perfect 

 head points, being strong and vigorous, and as large 

 as we could find him, where we felt sure that no out- 

 side blood had been introduced. 



The Brooder House during the Fall, was mate- 

 rially added to, giving us twenty Hover Pens, three 

 feet wide, and twelve Nursery Pens, each nearly five 

 feet wide, this giving us a Brooder House 118 feet 

 Ipng by 16 feet wide. 



We again this year (1909) supplemented our own 

 breeding pen with purchases of eggs from different 

 sources. 



