[Jacob-list] importations

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In a message dated 9/13/2009 8:42:55 P.M. Central Daylight Time,  
nlgrose at yadtel.net writes:

There were importations  in the 50s, and we THINK that there may have been 
some in the 1890s.  Certainly there have been some odd groups of Jacobs that 
no one could really  account for. Not sure anyone has really figured it all 
 out.
 
Would be very interested in the site or information suggesting what we now  
call Jacobs were in fact Jacobs and may have been in the US or North 
America in  the 1890's.  The earliest text reference I can find is to a ram of 
"the  Scottish 4-horn race." used in breeding experiements related to the  
"poll/horn/hornless" gene expressin in 1912 at the University of New  HAmpshire. 
 But I have not been able to find any picture or record of  any experiement 
results related to "the Scottish 4-horn race" ram which would  confirm that 
it was what we today call the Jacob.
 
The contemporaneous printing of Elwe's Primitive Breeds and their  Crosses 
at Bristol, England, the following year and the writings of  Heatly, Ewart, 
etc, at this time suggest a very few flocks located in the Parks  and a few 
sheep here and there... I counted like 28 flocks in England in the  
1910-1915 period,  some known to be crosses.  My sense is they were  rare as 
documented and reported and would not be international "export/import"  goods 
considering the population and basic economics of the breed.   However, as Elwes 
notes (1913), the crosses to the primitive breeds could be  locally 
profitable in the hills mid-lands which may account for some of the  "cross flocks" 
in the 1900s census.  
 
Fred Horak
St. Jude's Farm
1165 E. Lucas Road
Lucas, TX  75002
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