The planning and designing of all buildings on The Corning Egg Farm was done by ourselves, and all the construction has been done under our personal supervision. In the first two years we did not contract even the labor, employing simply “handy men” who worked with us under our instructions. Latterly, with the large amount of routine and office work pressing upon us, we found it to be wise economy to contract the labor, ourselves supplying the material and supervising the work. The buildings, with the arrangement of all equipment, are built in accordance with ideas thought and worked out by ourselves, on lines which seemed to us common sense, and economical in time and money for the handling of Poultry. Until within the last two years we had never seen another poultry farm, and those we have seen have only strengthened our conviction that no serious error has been made in laying out The Corning Egg Farm Plant. CHAPTER II Egg Farming the Most Profitable Branch of Poultry Keeping The profits are surer and larger. The reason this is not more widely known is because, in the past, few people have been able to resist the temptation of attempting to cover a number of the different branches of poultry culture. They have tried to get into the “fancy,” and have dreamed of taking a blue ribbon at Madison Square Garden, or at some other large Show. Then the broiler branch has engrossed their attention, and from that they have gone on to soft roasters, and the other phases of the slaughter house side of poultry for market purposes, and they have endeavored to cover all the different branches from which money is made in poultry, while entirely overlooking the fact that this is an age of specialization, and that the person who would succeed in any business must make up his mind to follow one branch of it, and bring that branch up to the highest efficiency. Developing the Great Layer From the start the Builders of The Corning Egg Farm, at Bound Brook, N. J., realized these conditions, and were never led into side issues but gave their entire thought and attention to the development of a great layer, realizing that if this was to be accomplished everything except an egg must be considered a by-product, and disposed of along the line of least resistance: in short carrying out the Scriptural injunction, “This one thing I do.” This one thought has been so successfully adhered to that the development of The Corning Egg Farm in five years has been remarkable in its production of the greatest laying type of hen yet produced, the Corning Strain Single Comb White Leghorn, placing the Farm head and shoulders above any other Egg Farm anywhere in the Country.