MARSDEN (1941) described the Broad-Breasted Small-type Turkey developed at the United States Department of Agriculture Research Center at Beltsville, Maryland. He characterized the bird as white in color, finishing at 24 weeks of age with the males weighing from 12 to 17 pounds and the females from 7½ to 10 pounds, and having a compact body with moderately short legs, moderately long keel bone, broad, well-meated breast, plump, and well-fleshed legs. Since the release of hatching eggs to colleges and experiment stations, the Small-type White Turkey has become widely distributed. It seemed that more specific information should be obtained on its size, body type, and market quality. Jaap (1938) used the factors rib spread, anterior body depth, shank length and degree of fleshing in studying the body conformation of live market turkeys. Jaap and Penquite (1938) concluded that differences in conformation of live birds may be expressed by comparing body . . .
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Darrow et al. (1944) studied this question.