$6.41 PER HEN PER YEAR i6i 



were plainly set forth. It was not done with twenty 

 hens in a back-yard, but on a large, commercial scale, 

 and an extensive business was in active operation. 



The methods were so entirely new, and the results 

 so unprecedented, that poultry writers and lecturers 

 hastily declared them fantastic, without the careful in- 

 vestigation to which they were entitled, and proceeded 

 to wholesale condemnation of the figures, the methods, 

 and everything else connected with the Farm. 



However, later, the majority of our critics haye vis- 

 ited The Corning Egg Farm, and have seen what we 

 have, what we are doing, and satisfied themselves thor- 

 oughly that every statement made was well within the 

 facts. 



It will be noticed that the profit of $6.41 was fig- 

 ured with the cockerels selling at the live weight price 

 of broilers, and when no hatching eggs were sold. 



Corning Farm Making More Than $6.41 



At The Corning Egg Farm, to-day, the hen is mak- 

 ing considerably more than $6.41 per year. A large 

 number of cockerels, which formerly brought merely 

 the live weight broiler price, are now being reared and 

 disposed of for breeders. Hatching eggs are sold in 

 large quantities, but, it must be remembered, before 

 one can reach this point, his Strain of birds must be 

 brought to a high point of perfection, he must estab- 

 lish his reputation, and his customers must find his 

 claims are substantiated. As an illustration, purchas- 



