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Selection for Egg Production*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

Fred Skaller
Fred Skaller
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President, Australian Branch, W.P.S.A., Poultry Research Centre, Werribee, Victoria
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 1960 , pp. 36 - 46
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1960

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