The Corning Egg Farm Book 



CHAPTER I 

 The Building of the Corning Egg Farm 



Having determined, in 1905, to engage in sonie 

 business connected with the feathered tribe, we de- 

 cided to try out the squab proposition versus market 

 poultry. After searching over a period of many 

 months, in various parts of the country, with the idea 

 of finding a place where the existing buildings might 

 be utilized for our needs, we finally were obliged to 

 abandon this idea and purchased, early in the year 

 1906, twelve and a half acres of land, now known 

 as Sunny Slope Farm. This property lies about two 

 miles west of Bound Brook, New Jersey, which town 

 is reached by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, 

 the Baltimore & Ohio, the Philadelphia & Reading 

 and the Lehigh Valley Railroads, and the Farm is 

 most accessible, as it is on the trolley line which con- 

 nects Bound Brook and Somerville. 



In the early Spring of 1906 we began our build- 

 ings, erecting a house, for raising squabs, which 

 would accommodate five hundred pairs of breeding 



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