INTRODUCTORY 



The Method, and the style of the buildings, 

 evolved and worked out on The Corning Egg Farm, 

 when put into book form proved so helpful to so 

 vast a number of poultry keepers, that the sale of this 

 first literature, which for a time was added to as the 

 months went by, reached the enormous total of over 

 140,000 copies in eighteen months. 



The writings were the simple, plain statements of 

 facts, and enabled others who followed them to reach 

 a success which, until this System was used, may have 

 been dreamed of, but was never realized. 



The literature from this Farm has gone out over 

 the entire civilized World, and the visitors, who ar- 

 rive in ever increasing numbers from month to month, 

 come from every quarter of the Globe. 



The Corning Egg Farm has been written of in 

 periodicals of every nature, and in almost every lan- 

 guage the World over. For the last twelve months 

 the requests for further, and more explicit, detailed 

 information relative to breeding and feeding for eggs, 

 the specialty from which The Corning Egg Farm has 

 never swerved, have become a demand. So that, after 

 mature deliberation, it was decided to write the his- 

 tory of The Corning Egg Farm, from its inception to 



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