Our selection of Breeders for 1910 was of course made from the birds which had completed their first ten months of pullet laying, in the houses Nos. 1 and 2. The mortality during these months had been about 7 per cent. With our method of selection only 950 of these birds qualified to be used as yearling breeders, and these were placed in the Breeding House which had been prepared for them. We had made a most careful selection of cockerels, and these we had reared in two Colony Houses, placed in a large yard, where we were planning to eventually erect a Cockerel House for the housing of cockerels specially selected for breeders. The balance of the birds from Nos. 1 and 2, together with our breeders of 1909, were sold, and we were able to face the hatching season of 1910 with a very decided step forward towards the realization of the ideal yearling breeder, which The Corning Egg Farm is working nearer to each season. [Illustration: INTERIOR LAYING HOUSE NO. 2 IN 1910] We placed in the Laying Houses Nos. 2 and 3 about 2750 pullets, and our respect for the man who could successfully, yearly, produce and raise to maturity five thousand pullets, increased materially. Keeping Down Labor Bill The question of keeping down the labor bill on the Farm has at all times been a matter of careful study, and the machinery which is in use is of large capacity, enabling us to turn out whatever may be required in a very short space of time, and allowing the men to get at other work. As an illustration; the Clover Cutter on the Farm has a capacity of 3000 pounds an hour, cut in one-fourth-inch lengths, which enables us, when we are cutting green food, to turn out the amount required for the day, fill the tubs, and have it on the way to the Laying Houses, in less than fifteen minutes. The question of economy in time in handling the Incubator Cellar had been a problem, which we finally solved by piping gas into the Cellar and Brooder House, from the mains which are laid in the road passing the Farm. Thus we did away with the danger of fire from sixteen incubator lamps (for we now had in the cellar sixteen machines) and the twenty Hover lamps, and the time and labor of cleaning and filling them. We placed a governor on the gas main, so that it was impossible to increase the pressure at any time of the day or night, and the gas worked most satisfactorily in incubation and brooding.