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Lighting Programs for Growing and Laying Pullets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2007

T. R. Morris
T. R. Morris
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Department of Agriculture, University of Reading, Englandfn01

* Paper presented to the Washington State University Poultrymen's Institute, February 7th, 1967.
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World's Poultry Science Journal , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , October 1967 , pp. 326 - 335
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1967

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