i64 THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK 



No. I. Brooder House, Incubator and Sprouted Oats 

 Cellars 



This building is 264 feet in length, and consists 

 really of two buildings. When this structure was 

 first erected it was sixteen feet wide and fifty feet in 

 length. The Incubator Cellar is entirely of concrete 

 construction, with a Brooder House one story in height 

 above it. The floor joists were all beam filled, mak- 

 ing the building rat proof. The second year it be- 

 came necessary to enlarge the Brooder House, and an 

 extension was built, sixty-eight feet in length, and set 

 up on cedar posts, with concrete filled in on top of the 

 sills between the floor joists, making this part of the 

 building also rat-proof. 



After using this Brooder House and Incubator Cel- 

 lar for three seasons a still further enlargement be- 

 came an absolute necessity. Sixteen feet has been, 

 and still is, the standard width of Laying Houses on 

 The Corning Egg Farm. It has been found, however, 

 with the Brooder House, an additional width is desir- 

 able in order to give the chicks more roomy runs when 

 confined by bad weather to the House alone. Mainly 

 for this reason, the 191 1 addition to the Brooder 

 House has been made twenty-two feet in width. This 

 new building is 146 feet in length. It is joined on 

 to the old building in such a way that the alley-way 

 merely widens at the point of connection, thus making 

 one continuous House. 



