WHO DISCOVERED SEX-LINKAGE
If Dr A. L. the famous Dutch is right, sex-link-ago was not discovered by scientists hut by peasant poultry farmers round the town of Assendeft, in Holland, and in the Belgian Kempen district. In bis new book "Animal Breeding, * Dr Hagedoorn says that it avus the discovery that these poultry farmers Averc using sex-linkage commercially as far back as Avhen ho Avas a student in Paris, that set Mui studying the phenomenon. With characteristic the Belgian poultry farmers, having found that Gold Campine cocks crossed Avith Silver liens gaA'e gold pullet chicks and pale cockerel chicks, kept the pullet chicks for themsch'es and planted the cockerel chicks on the French. Large numbers of liat boxes of these cricks Averc sold in the Hallcs, the famous Paris market, the fact that they Averc all cockerels being discoA r ercd by the buyers in due course.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 61, 13 September 1939, Page 6
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147WHO DISCOVERED SEX-LINKAGE Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 61, 13 September 1939, Page 6
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