78 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



An Interesting Experiment in Late Hatching 



In the season of 1910 The Corning Egg Farm made 

 a very interesting experiment, in a large way, so far 

 as late hatching goes. We incubated two large 

 batches of eggs, the first being set so that the chicks 

 hatched from the i8th to the 26th of July; the second 

 batch completed incubation August iSth. The re- 

 sulting pullets from these two hatches were some fifty 

 odd over twelve hundred. We carried them on 

 Range until December ist, and then placed them in 

 a Laying House by themselves. They had not begun 

 to lay on Range so far as we were able to discover, 

 although many of the pullets had the appearance of 

 eggs. Almost from the start, after they were placed 

 in the Colony Houses, we fed them, in addition to the 

 regular Range ration, a good supply of Sprouted Oats 

 each day. This was done for the reason that of 

 course the succulent green food had passed away, and 

 we consider it of vital importance that growing birds 

 be given the opportunity to gather a large supply of 

 succulent green food. The records show that within 

 three days after the pullets were placed in the Laying 

 House we began to gather from one to three eggs a 

 day. Before December was over the house was pro- 

 ducing 10%; January saw 35% output of eggs, and 

 before February was very far advanced we were 

 doing better than 60%. There was a time in March 

 when the House was yielding a 75% output. 



