Mrs
Annie Banning-Vogelpoel
Waardenburg - Netherlands
7-9-1984
Dear
Mrs Banning,
Nice
to receive your letter of August 7th and fine on your cousins in South
Australia and Victoria. My friend was also in the Dutch Army in Indonesia
after World War 2.
Thank
you on the information on Friesland and also Vierländen. My reason for asking
about this is that it was written that the fowls on Ester Island were
described as looking like fowls similar to the ones in Vierländen when
Roggeveen discovered Ester Island (1722). I think Vierländen is near Hamburg?
Fine
on your 2 books and Dr Hagedorn. I agree that he wrote very good books. I
think he visited Australia at one time during his career. I do have I think a
couple of his books. I agree with you that Hagedorn was very practical with
his ideas on breeding and also your remarks regarding Darwin. Unfortunately
Darwin did not have the benefit of knowing about Gregor Mendel’s experiments
on inheritance. Darwin was a great observer. However before Mendel’s papers
were rediscovered by De Vries and Bateson and later Punnett and used poultry
breeders weren’t sure why certain things happened when breeding poultry.
You
mention going to Limburg judging. My friends here in Maitland come from
Limburg. Fine on your Chinese geese. I am hatching chickens at the moment. I
have the incubator and will brood them, then they will go to my son’s place.
He lives about 3 miles away from me.
OK
regarding the Araucanas. I will be interested to have your comments on my
theory of the origins of the Araucanas.
We
are working on breeding new colours in Pekins here in Australia. This season I
am putting an OEG Pile over a Black Pekin male. A chap in the North of the
State mated Rhode Island Red and Black Pekin last year. The results were good.
He will now cross brother and sister of the offspring and in this second cross
the colours will segregate and hopefully some Black Tailed Red will turn up.
Of course it will take a few years to get the Pekin type.
A chap in New Zealand whom I write to is working on Silver Pencilled
Pekins.
Our
summer is coming up with days of 20 degrees Celsius. It should be quite warm
by the end of the month.
Next
weekend my son and his wife, President of the Pekin Bantam Club of NSW and
myself are travelling about 90 miles north of here to the Diamond Wedding
Anniversary of one of our old Pekin Breeders. He is 82 years old and has been
a great supporter of the Club over the years. At the function we are
presenting him with a Life Membership badge and a plaque in appreciation of
his past support.
All
for now. Looking forward to hearing from you anytime.
Sincerely,