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The Connecticut and Cornell Randombred Populations of Chickens1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

Steven C. King ,
James R. Carson  and
Donald P. Doolittle
Steven C. King
Affiliation:
Poultry Research Branch, Animal Husbandry Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture, at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana, U.S.A.
James R. Carson
Affiliation:
Poultry Science Department. University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, U.S.A.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , April 1959 , pp. 139 - 159
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1959

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