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the ideal yearling breeder, which The Corning Egg 

 Farm is working nearer to each season. 



We placed in the Laying Houses Nos. 2 and 3 about 

 2750 pullets, and our respect for the man who could 

 successfully, yearly, produce and raise to maturity 

 five thousand pullets, increased materially. 



Keeping Down Labor Bill 



The question of keeping down the labor bill on the 

 Farm has at all times been a matter of careful study, 

 and the machinery which is in use is of large capacity, 

 enabling us to turn out whatever may be required in 

 a very short space of time, and allowing the men to 

 get at other work. As an illustration; the Clover 

 Cutter on the Farm has a capacity of 3000 pounds 

 an hour, cut in one-fourth-inch lengths, which enables 

 us, when we are cutting green food, to turn out thei 

 amount required for the day, fill the tubs, and have iti 

 on the way to the Laying Houses, in less than fifteen 

 minutes. 



The question of economy in time in handling the 

 Incubator Cellar had been a problem, which we finally 

 solved by piping gas into the Cellar and Brooder 

 House, from the mains which are laid in the road 

 passing the Farm. Thus we did away with the dan- 

 ger of fire from sixteen incubator lamps (for we now 

 had in the cellar sixteen machines) and the twenty 

 Hover lamps, and the time and labor of cleaning and 

 filling them. We placed a governor on the gas main. 



