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sloping, and are twenty feet long, and correspond in 

 width with the hover runs inside the house, which 

 vary from three to four feet in width. The diameter 

 of the hover varies with the size of the run, from 26 

 to 30 inches. The sloping runs of the Brooder yards 

 are covered with Anthracite Coal ashes, which have 

 been found to entirely eliminate the much talked of 

 danger of contamination of soil, the surface being con- 

 stantly renewed as the ashes are consumed by the 

 chicks. 



Each hover is numbered, and directly back, on the 

 north wall of the Brooder House, is a corresponding 

 number, and a nail, on which is hung the record card. 

 When the chicks are carried up in baskets from the 

 Incubator Cellar, they are carefully examined, all 

 weaklings being excluded, and counted into the hover 

 compartments. Careful selection and the " survival 

 of the fittest " begin at this point with the stock on 

 The Corning Egg Farm. 



Before speaking of the number of chicks carried in 

 the hover compartments, it must be understood that 

 running along the north wall of the Brooder House 

 is a coil of hot water pipes, capable of maintaining 

 a temperature of 85 degrees, three feet from the floor, 

 and in zero weather. 



Corning Heated Brooder House 



The Corning Egg Farm believes absolutely in 

 Brooder Houses heated beyond what is supplied by 



