38 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



Officer, medals were struck off commemorative of the 

 fire and of the bravery displayed by these young men 

 at this time, and were presented to them. 



An addition to the Breeding House, extending over 

 the site of the burned building, was immediately 

 erected, and the small building which had been used 

 as a fattening pen for cockerels was rebuilt, and be- 

 came the breeding pen for the production of unrelated 

 cockerels. 



Also during this season the No. 3 Laying House 

 was built, this being an exact duplicate of the No. 2 

 House. 



Our selection of Breeders for 1910 was of course 

 made from the birds which had completed their first 

 ten months of pullet laying, in the houses Nos. i and 

 2. The mortality during these months had been 

 about 7 per cent. With our method of selection 

 only 950 of these birds qualified to be used as yearling 

 breeders, and these were placed in 'the Breeding 

 House which had been prepared for them. We had 

 made a most careful selection of cockerels, and these 

 we had reared in two Colony Houses, placed in a 

 large yard, where we were planning to eventually 

 erect a Cockerel House for the housing of cockerels 

 specially selected for breeders. 



The balance of the birds from Nos. i and 2, to- 

 gether with our breeders of 1909, were sold, and we 

 were able to face the hatching season of 1910 with a 

 very decided step forward towards the realization of 



