The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himself — John Shaqi
The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himselfCorning, Edward
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The Corning Egg Farm book, by Corning himself
Corning, Edward
Eggs -- Production; Poultry
The extensions on the Farm planned for 1910 were a Cockerel House, for
the housing of breeding cockerels, and the widening and lengthening of
No. 1 Laying House. These alterations were made in No. 1, so that it
was an exact counterpart of Nos. 2 and 3. We also planned, as soon as
the breeding season was over, and the 1910 breeding pen was shipped to
the various buyers who had purchased these birds for August delivery
(and the entire pen was sold early in 1910), to add another section to
the Breeder House, and to build a few more Colony Houses. Then we built
what we thought would be an adequate Office to handle the business of
the Farm, but which has since proved large enough for only one quarter
of the present requirements. We increased the size of the Egg Packing
Room, and installed a freezer with a capacity of over two thousand
pounds of green bone. This practically covers the enlargements on the
plant for 1910.
Adopted Hot Water Incubators
For three years we had been investigating quietly the so-called Mammoth
Incubators, or in other words, the Coal Heated, Hot Water Incubator,
and before the close of the hatching season of 1911 we had decided
to install two such machines in a cellar 146 feet long by 22 feet
wide--this cellar to be built so as to allow us to extend the present
Brooder House to the same length and width as the cellar.
This cellar has since been constructed, with a Brooder House over it,
so that we now have capacity for the incubation of 15,600 eggs at one
time.
The Hot Water System for heating the air supplying the Hovers has also
been installed, and the Brooder House now has a capacity of some 12,000
youngsters, before it is necessary to move any of them to the Range.
The Breeder House has again been enlarged, and, with the addition, a
year hence, of another Breeding House, which is planned to be 180 feet
long by 16 feet wide, and a larger house for the breeding of unrelated
cockerels, The Corning Egg Farm will have reached the limit planned for
since the inception of the Farm. We shall then have a capacity of 4500
sterile pullets, 3500 yearling hens for breeding purposes, and housing
for 1200 cockerels.
Why Great Farms Fail
One reads of Poultry Farms carrying anywhere from twenty to forty
thousand layers. Experience has taught us that the plant that gets
beyond the size where those financially interested can supervise and
know the condition of the Farm from one end to another daily, falls
down of its own weight, as it is impossible to find men, unless
financially interested, who will look after the endless details, which
spell success or ruin on a large poultry plant.
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