12 ILLUSTRATIONS 



FACING 

 FAGE 



" Socrates," the Great Bloodhound Which Heads the 

 Corning Kennels 9^ 



"Socrates II" and "Diogenes" 94 



Buster, America's Greatest Ratter 94 



Corning Automatic Drinking Fountain .... 96 



Part of the Old Incubator Cellar 104 



Brooder House, Showing Chick Runs .... 120 



Old Arrangement of Brooder House 124 



Chicks Six Weeks Old 128 



Colony Range Feed and Water Wagon with " Billy " 136 



Feeding on the Colony Range 140 



Baskets of Eggs 150 



Breeding Cockerels, Fall of 191 1 156 



No. 3 Laying House Filled with 1,500 Pullets . .158 



The Workshop on the Corning Egg Farm . . . 162 



The Celebrated Corning Large-Flock Laying House 

 No. 3 170 



Laying House Prepared to Receive 1,500 Pullets 

 from Range 172 



One of the Breeding Houses in 191 1 174 



The Corning Colony House 178 



Breeding House in 1907 — The Original Corning 

 House 182 



Pullets in Laying House No. 2, Fall of 191 1 . . . 184 



Diagrams and Detailed Plans of Buildings, etc. . ' . 199 



