I04 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



bly dry condition, the green food for the cockerels is 

 scattered outside their pen, and the entire flock is 

 driven out of the House, where they are soon busy 

 consuming the green food and whatever grain may 

 have been left on the ground from their outdoor feed- 

 ing of the previous day. 



For a number of years it was the method at The 

 Corning Egg Farm, between the hours of nine and 

 ten o'clock, to make a gathering of eggs. This has 

 now been abandoned for the reason that so many birds 

 were disturbed on the nests during such an early visit 

 to the House for gathering, and the first gathering now 

 on the Farm is made at eleven-thirty. 



In the study of feeding, extending over a term of 

 years, it has been found that a considerable economy 

 in time can be made, with exactly as advantageous 

 results from the layers, by the following routine. 

 Fresh water is placed in all the laying and breeding 

 pens at one o'clock, p. m., and it is boiling water 

 during the Winter months. Directly following the 

 watering the mash is placed in the troughs, and the 

 grain ration is scattered through the litter, both in 

 Summer and Winter. It has been found that the 

 hens work just as hard, and continue to do so, as 

 they did when the mash and grain fed were given at 

 hours which practically followed the Sun, that is, 

 earlier in Winter, and later in Summer. In past 

 years, the oats were fed to the flocks as a separate 

 ration, at eleven-thirty o'clock. This we have dis- 



