The Corning Egg Farm Book

About this eBook

Author

Corning, Gardner, 1867-1945

Title

The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himself

Original Publication

Bound Brook: The Corning Egg Farm, 1912.

Credits

deaurider, Harry Lamé and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

SF: Agriculture: Animal culture

Subject

Eggs -- Production

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 72042

Release Date

November 5, 2023

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE CORNING EGG FARM BOOK
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.ILLUSTRATIONS
4. 4.INTRODUCTORY
5. 5.CHAPTER I The Building of the Corning Egg Farm — Started with 60 Buff Rock Eggs — More Money in Eggs — Adopted White Leghorns — First Use of Roosting Closets — We Count Only Livable Chicks — Percentage of Cockerels Low — The Great Flock System Succeeds — Foreigners Visit the Farm — Investigated for Germany — Selection of Cockerels — Pullets Lay in 129 Days — Keeping Down Labor Bill — Adopted Hot Water Incubators — Why Great Farms Fail
6. 6.CHAPTER II Egg Farming the Most Profitable Branch of Poultry Keeping — Developing the Great Layer — Corning Method in Small Flocks — On Large Farms
7. 7.CHAPTER III What is a Fresh Egg?—An Egg Should be Sanitary as Well as Fresh — Manure Drainage to Drink — Diseased Meat to Eat — As the Food, so the Egg — A Perfect Egg a Rarity — Unlimited Demand for Quality Eggs
8. 8.CHAPTER IV Preparation of Eggs for Market
9. 9.CHAPTER V The Selection of the Breed—The Strain is of Utmost Importance — S. C. White Leghorns Outclass All — Line Breeding—Not Inbreeding — How Corning Farm Produces Unrelated Cockerels
10. 10.CHAPTER VI Advantages of the Large Flock System—Reduces Cost of Housing and Economizes in Time and Labor — Draughts the Stumbling Block — 2,000 Birds to a House
11. 11.CHAPTER VII What is the Winter Layer?—The Properly Hatched and Reared Pullet — Must Feed Green Food
12. 12.CHAPTER VIII A Great Laying Strain—The Selection of Breeders to Produce It — Eighteen Months Old — Trap Nests a Failure — Type Reproduces Type
13. 13.CHAPTER IX What is the Best Time to Hatch? — An Interesting Experiment in Late Hatching
14. 14.CHAPTER X Succulent Green Food—Satisfactory Egg Production Impossible Without It — Sprouted Oats Best — How They Are Grown on the Farm — Timothy and Clover Cut Green
15. 15.CHAPTER XI Anthracite Coal Ashes—A Substitute for Many More Expensive Necessities — Better Than Charcoal
16. 16.CHAPTER XII Eggs for Breeding Should be Laid by a Real Yearling Hen — 90,000 Orders for 40,000 Eggs
17. 17.CHAPTER XIII Policing the Farm—With Bloodhounds, Searchlights and Rifles — Shoot First—Investigate Afterwards — Socrates, the Great Bloodhound
18. 18.CHAPTER XIV The Necessity for Pure Water—An Egg is Chemically 80% Water — Automatic Fountains Essential — Hot Water in Cold Weather — Hens Drink More in Afternoon
19. 19.CHAPTER XV Hard Coal Ashes, Oyster Shell, and Grit
20. 20.CHAPTER XVI Beef Scrap and Green Bone Substitutes for Nature’s Animal Food — Green Cut Bone Nearest Nature
21. 21.CHAPTER XVII A Time for Everything—Everything on Time — Fixed Feeding Hours — Four Collections of Eggs Daily — Mash Fed in Afternoon
22. 22.CHAPTER XVIII Incubation on the Corning Egg Farm — Hen Reigns Supreme — Livable Chicks—Not Numbers — Uniform Temperature Most Important — Ventilation and Moisture Next — Hot Water Machines Best — Corning Incubator Cellar Unequaled — Eggs Turned from Third to Eighteenth Day — 103 Degrees Maintained — Cool But Never Cold — Cover Glass Doors — All Good Chicks Hatch in 20 Days — Set Incubators Toward Evening — Tested Only on Eighteenth Day — Moisture — Chicks Handled Only Once — Baby Chick Business Cruel
23. 23.CHAPTER XIX Rearing Chicks in Brooder House—The Following Two Years’ Results Depend Upon Success in Brooding — Corn Not Proper Chick Food — Follow Nature’s Teaching — A Balanced Food — Never Build a Double House — Must Drain Chick Runs — Concrete Floors Mean Dampness — Corning Heated Brooder House — Corning Feeds Dry Food Only — Three Feeds Daily — Green Food Third Day — Animal Food Tenth Day — Avoid Moving Chicks Often
24. 24.CHAPTER XX Handling Birds on Range—The Youngsters Must Be Kept Growing All the Time — A Corning Wrinkle — Grain and Mash Once a Day — Plenty of Shade — Removed to Laying House Middle of September
25. 25.CHAPTER XXI Feeding for Eggs—Wholesome Nourishment—Not Destructive Stimulants — Easy Assimilation — Perfect Health or No Eggs — Abundant Animal Food — The Corning Mash the Secret — “Egg Foods” Kill Layers — Mustard Increases Egg Laying — Mustard Increases Fertility — 4,000 Layers Fed Mustard — Mustard Maintains Health — Keep Appetite Keen
26. 26.CHAPTER XXII Breeding Hens During Moult—Coming Breeders Must be Kept Exercising Through This Period — Do Not Overfeed
27. 27.CHAPTER XXIII Feeding the Breeding Cockerels
28. 28.CHAPTER XXIV Preparing Surplus Cockerels for Market — Must Have Green Food
29. 29.CHAPTER XXV $6.41 Per Hen Per Year Corning Method and Strain Enabling Others to Better $6.41 — $6.41 Not Extravagant Claim — Corning Farm Making More Than $6.41
30. 30.CHAPTER XXVI The Buildings on the Corning Egg Farm — No. 1. Brooder House, Incubator and Sprouted Oats Cellars — Building No. 2, Work Shop, etc. — Building No. 9, Horse Stable — Building No. 10, Wagon Shed — Building No. 12, Office Building
31. 31.CHAPTER XXVII Construction of Laying, Breeding, and Breeding Cockerel Houses — Nearly Six Feet from Ground — Double Floors — Canvas Windows — Double Doors — Draught-Proof Roosting Closets
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVIII The Colony Houses—There are Forty-one on the Farm — Cotton Duck Windows
33. 33.CHAPTER XXIX — Materials Required for Laying House — Bill of Material for the Construction of Colony House
34. 34.CHAPTER XXX The Original Thirty Hens
35. 35.CHAPTER XXXI Egg Records — February 1st, 1908 to June 30th, 1911. — How Corning Farm Is Able To Get Great Egg Records — Highest Percentage of Fertility
36. 36.CHAPTER XXXII Prevention and Treatment of Diseases
37. 37.CHAPTER XXXIII A Word in Closing — Nothing to Hide — Illustrations are Photographs — The Corning Success — Our Advice to Beginners — Single Comb White Leghorns Only — It’s “Strain” You Want — Utility, Not Show Birds — Corning Largest Specialty Farm in World — Points That Mean Success
38. 38.BUILDINGS ON THE CORNING EGG FARM AND MANY HANDY DEVICES
39. 39.Transcriber’s Notes

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