ILLUSTRATIONS
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Corning Strain Utility Cockerel Frontispiece
FACING PAGE
1. Lay-Out of Farm 16
2. Interior Sterile Laying House No. 3, in 1910 22
3. Entrance to Farm in 1909 24
4. As You Approach the Farm, 1911 28
5. Office Building 30
6. Breeding Cockerels, Fall of 1909 34
7. Interior Laying House No. 2, in 1910 38
8. Panoramic View of the Farm 46
9. Thirty Dozen Corning Sanitary Fresh Eggs Ready to Ship 54
10. The Strain that Makes the Corning Egg Farm Famous 58
11. Three Sterile Laying Houses Containing 4,500 Pullets 64
12. Interior Laying House No. 1, in 1910 68
13. One of the Breeding Houses just after Mating, 1910 72
14. Sprouted Oats Cellar 78
15. Two-Weeks-Old Chicks in Brooder House Runs 84
16. Yearling Hens in Breeder House before Mating 90
17. “Socrates,” the Great Bloodhound Which Heads the Corning Kennels 92
18. “Socrates II” and “Diogenes” 94
19. Buster, America’s Greatest Ratter 94
20. Corning Automatic Drinking Fountain 96
21. Part of the Old Incubator Cellar 104
22. Brooder House, Showing Chick Runs 120
23. Old Arrangement of Brooder House 124
24. Chicks Six Weeks Old 128
25. Colony Range Feed and Water Wagon with “Billy” 136
26. Feeding on the Colony Range 140
27. Baskets of Eggs 150
28. Breeding Cockerels, Fall of 1911 156
29. No. 3 Laying House Filled with 1,500 Pullets 158
30. The Workshop on the Corning Egg Farm 162
31. The Celebrated Corning Large-Flock Laying House No. 3 170
32. Laying House Prepared to Receive 1,500 Pullets from Range 172
33. One of the Breeding Houses in 1911 174
34. The Corning Colony House 178
35. Breeding House in 1907—The Original Corning House 182
36. Pullets in Laying House No. 2, Fall of 1911 184
37. Diagrams and Detailed Plans of Buildings, etc. 199