To the rear of the Egg Packing Room, but having no connection with it whatever, is the room in which the large Freezer stands, for the preservation of green bone. The concrete floor in this room is sloped to a drain so that it may be thoroughly cleansed every day after the bone is taken out or put into the Freezer. The Freezer itself has a capacity of 2500 lbs. of bone, but the room, under ordinary conditions of weather, maintains such a temperature that there is no difficulty in carrying bone in barrels, standing around the room, which increases our storing capacity to more than double the quantity. On the second floor of the Work Shop is a complete and modern apartment in which the working foreman lives. Building No. 9, Horse Stable This is constructed on the general plan of all the buildings on the Farm, with capacity for four horses, and with necessary room for hay, etc., in the loft above. A large shed is built at the rear of the stable, in which bins are constructed for the carrying of grit and shell, and also for the storage of packing crates for eggs. Building No. 10, Wagon Shed This is conveniently placed to the stable, and is twenty by forty feet, with four sets of double doors, allowing the placing of vehicles without interfering with those already inside. Building No. 12, Office Building Conveniently arranged in three rooms covering a floor space of nine hundred and twenty-five square feet, hot water heated, and with electric lights. [Illustration: THE CELEBRATED CORNING LARGE FLOCK LAYING HOUSE NO. 3 CARRYING 1500 PULLETS] CHAPTER XXVII Construction of Laying, Breeding, and Breeding Cockerel Houses The Breeding and Laying Houses, on The Corning Egg Farm, are all built in the manner described in the remainder of this chapter, and are each 160 feet long. The Breeding Cockerel House is 60 feet in length. These Houses are all fifteen feet, nine inches, in width, the drawing in of them being three inches for the purpose of making the roof rafters, which are sixteen feet in length, readily reach out to the end of the plates, on the slant which they carry. The height of the buildings from the ground, over all, is twelve feet, two inches at the back and fourteen feet, two inches in front. The interior of these buildings is divided into 20 foot sections, by partitions extending out from the north wall of the buildings, seven feet, and forming the roosting closets. These partitions run from the floor clear to the ceiling, breaking the draughts, which but for them, would make the long Laying Houses utterly impracticable. The north wall of the Laying House is five feet high in the clear, the south wall being seven feet. This makes a sufficient height for walking through the building without stooping, and, as the bottom of the windows is carried up three feet from the floor, the window itself going up to the plate under the roof, the Sun reaches every part of the House of practically sixteen feet wide.