There are now appearing numerous advertisements of a prepared fish, to take the place of other animal foods, but The Corning Egg Farm is unable to give any opinion as to the efficiency of this preparation. It has been the rule at the Farm, when we have thoroughly tested and found satisfactory any article of food, not to experiment with the various substitutes which at all times are so widely advertised. CHAPTER XVII A Time for Everything--Everything on Time In any business, or occupation, that one attempts to carry on successfully there must be system. Nature teaches system, and the hen, as a part of Nature, is a very regular performer. She does everything on time, and at a given time, and if her routine is broken in upon she is a very much upset individual. The owner who rudely disturbs her routine suffers in the loss of eggs. The schedule of work among the fowls on The Corning Egg Farm is without variation each day. In Summer the houses are always open and need no attention in the morning, but in Winter the drops are raised in ordinarily cold weather, as soon as it is light enough to enable the hens to work in the litter for grain. On very cold mornings the raising of the drops is deferred until the Sun is up, and when this is done the drinking cups in the fountains are filled with hot water. Fixed Feeding Hours As close to eight o’clock as possible green food is fed to all the hens, and, if the ground is in a reasonably dry condition, the green food for the cockerels is scattered outside their pen, and the entire flock is driven out of the House, where they are soon busy consuming the green food and whatever grain may have been left on the ground from their outdoor feeding of the previous day. For a number of years it was the method at The Corning Egg Farm, between the hours of nine and ten o’clock, to make a gathering of eggs. This has now been abandoned for the reason that so many birds were disturbed on the nests during such an early visit to the House for gathering, and the first gathering now on the Farm is made at eleven-thirty.