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the pipes passing through the division wall, connecting 

 with the incubators on the other side. 



The floor is smooth surface concrete, there being 

 a gentle slope in the heater room all to one corner, 

 where a drain carries off the water used in flushing 

 the floor. This same arrangement exists also in the 

 Incubator Cellar proper, allowing the hose to be used 

 in flooding the floor twice a day to give the proper 

 amount of moisture for incubation. 



The concrete blocks used in the construction of this 

 Cellar are what is known as rock faced, and the face 

 is on the inside, pointed up in black. The floor joists 

 overhead are dressed lumber, and are painted in the 

 following manner: the priming coat is almost pure 

 oil with just enough lead to give it a whitish tinge; 

 the next coat is dead white, flat finish, and the third 

 is white enamel of the best stock obtainable. The in- 

 cubators are finished in the same way, allowing the 

 whole Cellar to be literally scrubbed with a brush. 



This Cellar has no duplicate, anywhere. 



Building No. 2, Work Shop, etc. 



The Work Shop proper is twenty by thirty feet, on 

 a concrete foundation, with a cement floor. The 

 height from the floor to the rafters is ten feet in the 

 clear. In this room stands a ten horse power Gaso- 

 lene Engine, and a large Mixer, the second Mixer 

 designed by The Corning Egg Farm, which produces 

 a mix in less time, and with less power, than any 



