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feet long by 22 feet wide — this cellar to be built so 

 as to allow us to extend the present Brooder House 

 to the same length and width as the cellar. 



This cellar has since been constructed, with a 

 Brooder House over it, so that we now have capacity 

 for the incubation of 15,600 eggs at one time. 



The Hot Water System for heating the air supply- 

 ing the Hovers has also been installed, and the 

 Brooder House now has a capacity of some 12,000 

 youngsters, before it is necessary to move any of 

 them to the Range. 



The Breeder House has again been enlarged, and, 

 with the addition, a year hence, of another Breeding 

 House, which is planned to be 180 feet long by 16 

 feet wide, and a larger house for the breeding of un- 

 related cockerels. The Corning Egg Farm will have 

 reached the limit planned for since the inception of the 

 Farm. We shall then have a capacity of 4500 sterile 

 pullets, 3500 yearling hens for breeding purposes, and 

 housing for 1200 cockerels. 



Why Great Farms Fail 



One reads of Poultry Farms carrying anywhere 

 from twenty to forty thousand layers. Experience 

 has taught us that the plant that gets beyond the size 

 where those financially interested can supervise and 

 know the condition of the Farm from one end to an- 

 other daily, falls down of its own weight, as it is 

 impossible to find men, unless financially interested. 



