CONTENTS 



INTRODUCTORY 



CHAPTER I 



The Building of ihe Corning Egg Farm 

 Started with 60 Buff Rock Eggs 

 More Money in Eggs . 

 Adopted White Leghorns . . 

 First Use of Roosting Closets . 

 We Count only Livable Chicks 

 Percentage of Cockerels Low . 

 The Great Flock System Succeeds 

 Foreigners Visit the Farm 

 Investigated for Germany 

 Selection of Cockerels . 

 Pullets Lay in 129 Days 

 Keeping Down Labor Bill 

 Adopted Hot Water Incubators 

 Why Great Farms Fail . 



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CHAPTER II 



Egg Farming the Most Profitable Branch of 



Poultry Keeping 43 



Developing the Great Layer 43 



Corning Method in Small Flocks .... 44 



On Large Farms 46 



CHAPTER III 



What is a Fresh Egg ? An Egg Should be Sani- 

 tary AS Well as Fresh . . , . . .48 



Manure Drainage to Drink 48 



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