Egg Records
February 1st, 1908 to June 30th, 1911.
Average Production Average
Dates Number of Eggs Price
of Hens per doz.
Feb. 1, 1908 to Jan. 31, 1909 2,040 338,976 .5066
Feb. 1, 1909 to June 30, 1910 2,811 709,836 .47125
July 1, 1910 to June 30, 1911 4,723 612,000 .4618
AVERAGE FOR FIRST TEN MONTHS OF PULLET LAYING IN FLOCKS OF FIFTEEN
HUNDRED.
1909 143.25
1910 145.11
1911 146.23
On examination of this Egg Record it will be noticed that in the
average number of eggs laid by the pullets, in flocks of fifteen
hundred, there have been three gains, and in analyzing these averages
it must be remembered that these are results obtained, not by the
handling of a few pullets most carefully selected to produce a record,
but of thousands, and the advance of three eggs in the average is
therefore a remarkable gain.
How Corning Farm Is Able To Get Great Egg Records
The salient reasons which make possible such egg records as The Corning
Egg Farm is able to show are:
1st,--Careful selection of breeders by the Corning Method, which is the
only proper Method and has already been described.
2nd,--Pullets raised on free range, feeding to them a strengthening
and upbuilding ration, which constantly supplies new tissues, and is,
therefore, a nutritious and not a forcing food.
3rd,--Housing them in The Corning Laying House, which to-day stands
unequaled, where they are practically outdoors yet protected from
extremes of heat and cold, for if hens are to lay to their capacity
they must be kept always in a perfectly comfortable condition.
4th,--The succulent, green food, which is so necessary to their welfare
if they are to lay strongly, and which must be given to them in large
quantities.
Hens on the ordinary free range, in the general run of seasons, after
July 1st., cannot find succulent green food in sufficient quantities to
enable them to keep up even a fair average of eggs. Receipts of eggs
at all large market centers, begin to fall off at about this date, and
prices correspondingly increase.
Highest Percentage of Fertility
Every observer, viewing the stock of The Corning Egg Farm, is at once
convinced that the scientific Method here employed produces better
birds than any other. The steady increase, from year to year, in the
hatchability of the eggs towards full fertility; the strong, livable
chicks, their rapid growth to maturity; and the voluntary testimony
given by our customers whose ever increasing orders come back to us,
year after year, all conclusively establish the fact that hens bred and
raised by The Corning Method are unequaled anywhere.
For the last two years hatching eggs have been shipped from the
Atlantic to the Pacific, and from the Northern part of Canada to the
Gulf of Mexico, and even across the Atlantic to far away Scotland. From
this widely extended territory comes the unsolicited testimony that The
Corning Strain of Single Comb White Leghorns is unequaled.
At the present time the amount of labor carried on The Corning Egg Farm
is one working foreman and three laborers. The latter are $1.50 a day
men, and, with this force all the work of the farm is accomplished.
The Houses are thoroughly cleaned, as to the dropping boards, drinking
fountain stands, tops of nests, and the inside of nests where required,
every day in the week and three hundred and sixty-five days in the
year.
When the Colony Houses are in use they are cleaned and rebedded every
two or three weeks, as required, during the first part of the Spring.
After the first part of the season is over, say from July 1st., they
are not cleaned as often for the reason that there is very little
dampness, and so long as the Houses remain dry, the cleaning is not
required.
The cost of feed in the last two years has gone up materially, and
it now requires an outlay of about eighteen cents to raise a Leghorn
cockerel to broiler size. The cost of raising a pullet to the laying
point is forty-two and a half cents, which includes cost of incubation.
The pullet, through her first ten months of laying, costs $1.15.
It is somewhat difficult to give a fixed figure as to the cost of
caring for the coming breeder through the time of moult, during the
months when she is producing eggs for hatching, and up to the time when
she is shipped, in August, eleven months in all. Different seasons
and different flocks of birds vary in the amount of food necessary
during these months. Our records show, however, that the output of eggs
through the moulting season from the birds which we are carrying for
hatching eggs has always been enough to show a profit over the feeding
cost. It would be safe to figure that the outlay will be between one
dollar and forty and one dollar and fifty cents. These amounts, as
given, represent the cost of feeding and the cost of labor.