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concerned, and had found that this market paid a 

 premium for a white shelled egg. This, then, was 

 the determining factor in the selection of the breed 

 of fowls, and after gathering all the information we 

 could regarding birds which laid white eggs, we were 

 satisfied, taking everything into consideration, that for 

 an Egg Farm, the Single Comb White Leghorn, was 

 the only fowl. 



In the Spring of 1907 we collected a breeding pen, 

 from different sources, of thirty Single Comb White 

 Leghorn yearling hens, and three strong, vigorous 

 cockerels. We purchased an incubator holding three 

 hundred and ninety eggs, and three out-door 

 brooders, and built a number of small Colony 

 Houses to move the birds into as soon as they were 

 large enough to be transferred from the brooders. 

 The hens chosen for the initial breeding pen of the 

 Farm were most carefully selected, for even then we 

 had in mind the result which we intended to reach, 

 as to the ultimate type of layer on the Farm. We 

 placed the resulting eggs from this breeding pen in 

 the incubator, using a primitive turning machine to 

 keep them in proper condition until the requisite 

 number was acquired to fill the incubator. Our 

 hatch was a very good one, and we succeeded in raising 

 a fair number of the youngsters hatched. 



During the Summer we erected what is now known 

 on the Farm as the No. i Laying House. This was 

 built one hundred feet long, by twelve feet wide, and 



