EGG RECORDS 186 How Corning Farm is Able to Get Great Egg Records 187 Highest Percentage of Fertility 188 CHAPTER XXXII PREVENTION AND TREATMENT OF DISEASES 190 CHAPTER XXXIII A WORD IN CLOSING 192 Nothing to Hide 193 Illustrations are Photographs 193 The Corning Success 193 Our Advice to Beginners 194 Single Comb White Leghorns Only 194 It’s “Strain” You Want 194 Utility, Not Show Birds 195 Corning Largest Specialty Farm in World 195 Points That Mean Success 196 BUILDINGS ON THE CORNING EGG FARM AND MANY HANDY DEVICES 198 ILLUSTRATIONS Corning Strain Utility Cockerel _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE 1. Lay-Out of Farm 16 2. Interior Sterile Laying House No. 3, in 1910 22 3. Entrance to Farm in 1909 24 4. As You Approach the Farm, 1911 28 5. Office Building 30 6. Breeding Cockerels, Fall of 1909 34 7. Interior Laying House No. 2, in 1910 38 8. Panoramic View of the Farm 46 9. Thirty Dozen Corning Sanitary Fresh Eggs Ready to Ship 54 10. The Strain that Makes the Corning Egg Farm Famous 58 11. Three Sterile Laying Houses Containing 4,500 Pullets 64 12. Interior Laying House No. 1, in 1910 68 13. One of the Breeding Houses just after Mating, 1910 72 14. Sprouted Oats Cellar 78 15. Two-Weeks-Old Chicks in Brooder House Runs 84 16. Yearling Hens in Breeder House before Mating 90 17. “Socrates,” the Great Bloodhound Which Heads the Corning Kennels 92 18. “Socrates II” and “Diogenes” 94 19. Buster, America’s Greatest Ratter 94 20. Corning Automatic Drinking Fountain 96 21. Part of the Old Incubator Cellar 104