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because quite the contrary has been given out as a 

 fact. Such reckless representations, because untrue, 

 are misleading and injurious to both those engaged in 

 the poultry industry and also to those who contem- 

 plate entering it, and should be branded as false, and 

 the authors of such statements should be prohibited 

 from using the United States Mails. 



We are not, and make no pretense of being, philan- 

 thropists. We have written this Book primarily with 

 the expectation that it will make The Corning Egg 

 Farm and the Corning Method of Poultry Culture 

 even more widely and impressively known to .the 

 World, and so benefit us by increased demand for our 

 stock, eggs, and all other goods we may have for sale. 



Secondly, we know that the Book will benefit 

 others if they will follow the Corning Method and 

 System herein laid down, and so prove of mutual ad- 

 vantage to readers and authors as well. 



The Single Comb White Leghorn is par excel- 

 lence the Egg Machine, provided always first class 

 and the best strain of birds is procured, and the 

 Corning Strain, without doubt or question, is the very 

 best strain of Single Comb White Leghorns yet de- 

 veloped anywhere in the World. 



We know this new, large, complete and thoroughly 

 up to date Book will be the means of bringing us, and 

 our unequaled Strain of Single Comb White Leg- 

 horns, into favor with thousands of people who, as 

 yet, do not know us, just as the publishing of the 



