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Re: Purebred history
Posted by Franklin D. Albertsen on May 17, 2016, 5:18 pm, in reply to "
Purebred history "
My Dad's father, Lars Albertsen, had Spotted Poland China's starting in the late 1800's and had his first Spotted bred sow sale in 1909. He operated as Oak Valley Stock Farm at Oakfield/Brayton, Iowa until after WWII. Mom's father, Andrew C. Nelson, had Black Poland China's started at about the turn of the century. He had several production sales for his Klondike Farm at Exira, Iowa until WWII. My folks, Mr. and Mrs. Harry P. Albertsen, started their herds in 1936, operating as Big Type Polands at Audubon, Iowa until 1961. They started production sales in 1945. Nelson Kratchel was usually the auctioneer. In the late 40's they were still registering their Polands in 3 different Poland associations. Dad always gave Oscar Anderson credit for finally getting all the Black Poland associations together in one office. I had both breeds up thru the late eighties, and still occasionally buy one for the kids or grandchildren. I have over a century's worth of Poland and Spot pedigrees - - from 2 different national Spot associations and 5 different Poland associations. I don't know how many years the two breeds were legally cross registered by our family. The Spots opened their herd books to Polands when they started, again in about 1921, again in the late 30's or early 40's, and in the early 70's for sure. Dad always said about every 20 years. While I've bred primarily Polands, many of my closest friends over the years were Spot breeders. My youngest son Daweyn is the most involved today. He always considered his Mom Becky's uncle Bob Zieness as another Grandpa, and so he had Berks, too. All of my 4 grandparents were Danish from the island of Aero. My Dad's uncles helped create the Danish Landrace ("Race of the Land"). The farms have been in the various families for about 250 years, they were all livestock breeders, and there are still Landrace pigs on those farms today. Frank
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