46 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



Before he became conversant with the Corning 

 Method (and with the stock he was then carrying be- 

 fore beginning with the Corning Strain) his success 

 was represented by zero, but to-day his balance sheets, 

 which .he displays with great pride, are extremely in- 

 teresting reading. 



This gives a very fair illustration of two small 

 flocks of different size, and of the results obtained. 



On Large Farms 



Turning now to the story of two egg farms which 

 have been built within the last two years, one in New 

 Jersey and the other in Pennsylvania, we find again 

 most interesting and successful conditions. 



The Pennsylvania Farm started its first season by 

 the purchase from us of fifteen hundred hatching 

 eggs. The owner came to our Farm and asked our 

 assistance in planning his campaign of growth. His 

 hatch from the fifteen hundred eggs, and he never 

 had run an incubator before, was some 75 per cent, of 

 all eggs set, and, by following the feeding methods 

 prescribed, his mortality was very low. He placed 

 in his Laying House that Fall some five hundred pul- 

 lets, and in July, 19 10, he had sent us an order for 

 three thousand eggs for the season of 191 1. 



As he told this story on a visit to The Corning Egg 

 Farm, in the month of February, 191 1, he had done 

 the almost impossible, simply by following the Method 

 laid down in the literature published by The Corning 



