6o THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



an egg farm. It is a bird, where properly bred, of 

 great hardiness and stamina. It readily adapts it- 

 self to all conditions of climate, and, where the right 

 " strain " is procured, it is never a disappointer as to 

 the number, size, and the class of eggs which it pro- 

 duces. We, therefore, decided to adopt the Single 

 Comb White Leghorn, and we have outlined, in a 

 previous chapter, how we went to work to build up 

 the unequaled Corning Strain, by the most careful 

 selection, and scientific mating. 



Prof. Gowell, at the Maine Agricultural Station, 

 carried on his breeding with Barred Plymouth Rocks, 

 and it is interesting to note that his average for some 

 eight years, taking his star performers, was 134.27 

 eggs per hen for twelve months, while at The Corning 

 Egg Farm the flocks of fifteen hundred pullets aver- 

 aged per hen, for ten months laying, 143.25 eggs in 

 1909, and 145.11 eggs in 1910. Here was a differ- 

 ence of two months in time, and yet the large flocks, 

 taken as a whole, not weeding out a few star per- 

 formers, surpassed the twelve months' record of the 

 Barred Plymouth Rocks at the Maine Station by al- 

 most nine eggs in 1909, and ten eggs in 1910. This 

 significant fact made considerable impression on a 

 number of breeders in the neighborhood of Boston, 

 with the result that, in the last two years, The Corn- 

 ing Egg Farm has supplied a large number of hatch- 

 ing eggs and considerable breeding stock for farms 

 in New England. 



