We are not, and make no pretense of being, philanthropists. We have written this Book primarily with the expectation that it will make The Corning Egg Farm and the Corning Method of Poultry Culture even more widely and impressively known to the World, and so benefit us by increased demand for our stock, eggs, and all other goods we may have for sale. Secondly, we know that the Book will benefit others if they will follow the Corning Method and System herein laid down, and so prove of mutual advantage to readers and authors as well. The Single Comb White Leghorn is par excellence _the_ Egg Machine, provided always first class and the best strain of birds is procured, and the Corning Strain, without doubt or question, is the very best strain of Single Comb White Leghorns yet developed anywhere in the World. We know this new, large, complete and thoroughly up to date Book will be the means of bringing us, and our unequaled Strain of Single Comb White Leghorns, into favor with thousands of people who, as yet, do not know us, just as the publishing of the small and older booklet put us into touch with other thousands who are now doing a prosperous business by the use of this same Corning Strain Single Comb White Leghorns, and by following the Corning Method now more completely elaborated and explained in “The Corning Egg Farm Book by Corning Himself.” EDWARD AND GARDNER CORNING. The Corning Egg Farm, Bound Brook, New Jersey. December, 1911. The Corning Egg Farm Book CHAPTER I The Building of the Corning Egg Farm Having determined, in 1905, to engage in some business connected with the feathered tribe, we decided to try out the squab proposition versus market poultry. After searching over a period of many months, in various parts of the country, with the idea of finding a place where the existing buildings might be utilized for our needs, we finally were obliged to abandon this idea and purchased, early in the year 1906, twelve and a half acres of land, now known as Sunny Slope Farm. This property lies about two miles west of Bound Brook, New Jersey, which town is reached by the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the Baltimore & Ohio, the Philadelphia & Reading and the Lehigh Valley Railroads, and the Farm is most accessible, as it is on the trolley line which connects Bound Brook and Somerville. In the early Spring of 1906 we began our buildings, erecting a house, for raising squabs, which would accommodate five hundred pairs of breeding birds, a hen house of the scratching shed variety, capable of accommodating some two hundred and fifty hens, and a work-shop with living apartments for the resident man. We also sunk a well one hundred and seventeen feet deep, erecting over it a sixty foot wind-mill tower, which carries an eighteen hundred gallon tank. From this pipes were laid to convenient parts of the property.