April
24, 1985
Good
morning Bill:
VERY
GLAD TO HEAR FROM YOU!
With
family complications....can appreciate your not writing.
WITH ME....my concern is health. My brother just returned from the
famous Mayo Clinic in Rochester for surgery. The Doctor found me okay....but
from here on, there will be a DOCTOR CHECK*UP ONCE A YEAR! If either my wife,
or my health were to be badly affected....the goal of publishing these planned
books....could quickly fizzle.
ENCLOSED IS A FAVORABLE RESPONSE FROM
MAINLAND CHINA. This man writing....is with a publishing house. He pursued my
question with this information. Was originally referred to him via the US
EMBASSY there in China.
NOW
* RUSSIA IS THE PROBLEM!
Several letters written to specific "POULTRY PEOPLE" in
Russia, have been ignored. What bugs me too....is letters we have sent
to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow;...have not been answered.
PRESIDENT KRISTER ECKLUND of the World Poultry Science Association has
promised to help. At a special conference he would be talking to TWO POULTRY
PEOPLE....from Russia. Perhaps his personal contact / will help. Lets
hope so.
WITH SOME
COUNTRIES, it is rather obvious they have nothing to offer.
JUST
RECENTLY... sent $36.00 to a publishing firm in FRANCE....to get their leading
poultry book.
WILL
LOOK FORWARD...to your comments on tools made in Australia. As told you
previously, I do not have or raise CHICKENS, but have a number of hobbies.
Mr.
C.C. Wang
12, Lane No. 4, - Yan Qing Road Shanghai, China
23rd
March 1985
Dear
Mr. Loyl Stromberg,
I
am very glad that you are interesting in the books I recommended in my last
letter. I’ll arrange to buy them for you when are issued.
Knowing
that a large and significant book, an encyclopaedia - “Poultry of The World”
under your compiling and to be published in the future, I wish you will
achieve great success. o f course it is my pleasure to offer you any of the
useful reference materials of Chinese chicken breeds for comprehensiveness and
accuracy.
Frankly
speaking, as I know, there are few informations on the three breeds - Cochins
Langshans and Brahmas, but, one article, named The past, Present and Future
about Selection and Breeding of Langshan (about four thousand words, which
might be for your reference on some aspects, had been published in Poultry
magazine in 1979. If you are interesting, I’ll manage to duplicate or
translate it for you: Besides, from card catalogues, I discover an article,
named The History of Chinese Chicken Breeds. If it is valuable, I would like
to write to you later.
It
is a place name? But, there is no town called this name at Shanghai suburb.
May it be denoting chicken weight in catty? Catty is a Kind of Chinese weight
unit of which Chinese pronounce very similar to “Chin”.
It
is needed further reference to answer your questions. I wish you advise me How
and When the Cochin has originated? Who denominated .........