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AT the Maine Agricultural Experiment Station Mr. John W. Gowen has made a genetic study of the first-generation crosses of prominent dairy breeds of cattle and beef-bred Aberdeen-Angus. This work, the results of which are published in the Journal of Agricultural Research (vol. xv., October, 1918, pp. 1–57, 6 plates), was undertaken as a link in the chain of evidence necessary to the final solution of the problems which are connected with the inheritance of milk production and butter-fat production. A cross-bred herd is being formed at the experiment station so as to provide as much material as possible for the analysis of the laws of heredity concerned with the productivity referred to, and this herd has now gone into its second generation.
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The Inheritance of Milk and Fat Production in Cattle . Nature 102, 433–434 (1919). https://doi.org/10.1038/102433a0
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