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Box 01

 Container

Contains 4 Results:

Kimber Strain White Leghorns, 1955

 File — Box: 01
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Walter F. Hughes' collection of documents relates to poultry breeding and poultry business in Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms, Niles, California. The collection contains 1926-1927 pedigree of individual records attained by chickens in breeding pens. A general catalog, published in 1955, describing all factors in Kimber Farms' efforts to produce a more profitable White Leghorn chicken is also included. A few issues of Kimberchik News from 1944-1955, are bound with a catalog. A single black and...
Dates: 1955
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms Records

Kimber Strain Turkeys, 1965

 File — Box: 01
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Walter F. Hughes' collection of documents relates to poultry breeding and poultry business in Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms, Niles, California. The collection contains 1926-1927 pedigree of individual records attained by chickens in breeding pens. A general catalog, published in 1955, describing all factors in Kimber Farms' efforts to produce a more profitable White Leghorn chicken is also included. A few issues of Kimberchik News from 1944-1955, are bound with a catalog. A single black and...
Dates: 1965
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms Records

Individual pedigree bird records, 1926

 File — Box: 01
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Walter F. Hughes' collection of documents relates to poultry breeding and poultry business in Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms, Niles, California. The collection contains 1926-1927 pedigree of individual records attained by chickens in breeding pens. A general catalog, published in 1955, describing all factors in Kimber Farms' efforts to produce a more profitable White Leghorn chicken is also included. A few issues of Kimberchik News from 1944-1955, are bound with a catalog. A single black and...
Dates: 1926
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms Records

Photograph of Kimber's professional staff, 1965

 Item — Box: 01
Scope and Contents Note From the Collection: Walter F. Hughes' collection of documents relates to poultry breeding and poultry business in Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms, Niles, California. The collection contains 1926-1927 pedigree of individual records attained by chickens in breeding pens. A general catalog, published in 1955, describing all factors in Kimber Farms' efforts to produce a more profitable White Leghorn chicken is also included. A few issues of Kimberchik News from 1944-1955, are bound with a catalog. A single black and...
Dates: 1965
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms Records