ii8 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



ton Flannel, and in these they are carried upstairs to 

 the Brooder House. 



The last act of the chicken, before pipping the shell, 

 is to absorb into its system the yolk of the egg, which 

 supplies it with a sufficient amount of nourishment to 

 last at least forty-eight hours. This supply of nour- 

 ishment is what really makes possible the tremendous 

 business carried on in " baby chicks." But, as The 

 Corning Egg Farm views it, the Society for Preven- 

 tion of Cruelty to Animals should step in and stop 

 this business. After exclusion is accomplished the 

 chick is thoroughly exhausted, and for a number of 

 hours, if left to its own devices, it lies in a deep sleep. 



Baby Chick Business Cruel 



Consider then the torture that this small animal is 

 put through when it is taken out of the warm egg 

 chamber, or nursery, as soon as it is dry enough, 

 packed like a sardine in a box, and then hustled to an 

 express office, placed on a train, and, by the swaying 

 of the train, kept in constant motion. 



The sellers of day old chicks in many cases guar- 

 antee the arrival of the small " puff ball " alive. Un- 

 less the distance is extreme this is not such a difficult 

 feat. They are alive on arrival, and perhaps con- 

 tinue to live in apparently fair strength for some days, 

 but somewhere between the 7th and loth days the 

 mortality usually runs into such numbers that the pur- 

 chaser finds the remaining number of youngsters 



