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
No. 2--Work Shop, Grain Bins, Egg Packing Room, Refrigerator Room,
and Quarters for the Resident Foreman, all under one roof.
No. 3--Breeding House.
No. 4--Laying House No. 1.
No. 5--Laying House No. 2.
No. 6--Laying House No. 3.
No. 7--Line Breeding House.
No. 8--Breeding Cockerel House.
No. 9--Horse Stable.
No. 10--Wagon Shed.
No. 11--41 Colony Houses Scattered over the Range.
No. 12--Office Building.
To give an idea of the magnitude of The Corning Egg Farm, there are
under roof 18,455 square feet of floor space.
No. 1. Brooder House, Incubator and Sprouted Oats Cellars
This building is 264 feet in length, and consists really of two
buildings. When this structure was first erected it was sixteen feet
wide and fifty feet in length. The Incubator Cellar is entirely of
concrete construction, with a Brooder House one story in height above
it. The floor joists were all beam filled, making the building rat
proof. The second year it became necessary to enlarge the Brooder
House, and an extension was built, sixty-eight feet in length, and set
up on cedar posts, with concrete filled in on top of the sills between
the floor joists, making this part of the building also rat-proof.
After using this Brooder House and Incubator Cellar for three seasons
a still further enlargement became an absolute necessity. Sixteen feet
has been, and still is, the standard width of Laying Houses on The
Corning Egg Farm. It has been found, however, with the Brooder House,
an additional width is desirable in order to give the chicks more roomy
runs when confined by bad weather to the House alone. Mainly for this
reason, the 1911 addition to the Brooder House has been made twenty-two
feet in width. This new building is 146 feet in length. It is joined on
to the old building in such a way that the alley-way merely widens at
the point of connection, thus making one continuous House.
The interior arrangement of a four foot alley-way, the entire length of
the building, along the north wall, greatly facilitates the feeding,
watering, and general care of the chicks, without disturbing them by
passing through the pens.
The raised hover floor starts at the south side of this alley-way, and
is raised about a foot so as to allow the passing underneath of the hot
water trunk line, with its perfect insulation. Attached to this hover
floor, by hinges, is an inclined runway, which is raised or lowered
by a cord running through pulley wheels and fastened by cleats to the
north wall.
The division wires between the pens are of inch mesh, four feet high,
brought down to a ten inch board which is securely fastened to the
floor.
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