.a. ... .. ... . ...- v THE GUARDIAN. C-HARLOTTETOWN PAGE THREE our I DECEMBER", 2:1, m'1952' Agricultural News I r. n. 1. Department of Agriculture The Minister, Deputy Minister and members of the stat! of the Department of Agriculture extend their warmest greetings for a very Merry Clu-istmu, and may our wish be Peace on Earth-Goodwill Lmvards DIG"- ' I Sire Policy The Provincial Department of be Agriculture are making every pn- dearer to assist breeders in select- ing and procuring suitable bulls for use-in their districts. If in- rormation is required. do not hesi- muv to contact the Department of ms-auxaoslsvsisnststllltiststsmsvns bo ST. PETERS CATHEDRAL The Reverend Canon 6, E. Moffstt M.A.' BJ). I Incumbent. Tho Reverend W. G. Hogg Honorary Assistant Priest; organist and Choir Director mu Suzanne Brenton, Lie. Music run FEAST or THE NATIVITY or OUR LORD Dec. 24th- . 7 p.m.: First Evensong of Christmas (said in the Chapel). Confessions 4:30-5:30 p.m.; 7:30-8:30 p.m. ll.-i5 p.m.: Procession and Midnight Eucharist (Choral). Dec. 25th-- T:?.0 a.m.: Mattins (said). R n.m.: Holy Eucharist (said). a.m.: Procession and Choral Eucharist. This is the Family Service with well known hymns hurl a five-minute address, 5 pm.: Evensong (said). ll All the services of the day will he in the Cathedral. I-luau. H Agriculture on Richmond ltreet in Charlottetown. The first step in obtaining as- sistance under the Sire Policy is to make application-The follow- ing is s brief outline of the policy. No animal under the age of twelve months at May lit of my year and only sires inspected and approved will be eligible for a nus. All bulls placed under this pol- icy should be of the same breed previously owned in the district. In all cases the signature of five .or more parties in any breeding area having a total of not less than fifty breeding females shall be required in any application for nus. All bulls to be eligible must have passed the tuberculin test and the blood test for Bangs Disease. . Bulls qualifying for placement shall receive a bonus tows. maxi- mum of fifty per cent of the pur- chase cost of the bull. but not un- der any circumstances to exceed one hundred dollars. Winter Dysentery Winter Dysentery often known r as White scours in cattle. its a highly contagious ”' of stab- led animals; usually it is mild in character and diarrhea followed by dehydration is the only appar- ent symptom. The "incubation period is about three days to a week and the on- set is sudden with fifty to one hundred per cent of the animals becoming , infected. Loss of weight and milk pro- duction sre the particular results and in a. great many oases the effect seems to last until the next calving. . The treatment varies to the severity of the infection. Those animals passing any blood should be attended to immediately. In all cases it is advisable to seek the advice of your Veterinarian. In so doing the losses can be minimized. Poultry Enteritis An inflammation of the intest- ines that is not attributable to any particular germ is frequently found in chickens and turkeys. It occurs in birds from three weeks of age until the time they're fully grown. Affected birds have a bag- gard appearance. loss of appetite and diarrhoea. Usually the only abnormality found on a post-mox- tem examination is a severe in- flammatlon of the intestines, with slimy contents. Among the sug- gested causeslof this condition are chilling, heat prostration, sudden 'IH.K1 I CHRISTMAS EVE-- currisrms nay.-I 'l:00 am. 8:00 am. 10:30 am. ST. PAULIS CHURCH cunrsrnss ssmvrcns v 11:30 P.M.: Celebration of Holy Communion. Celebration of Holy Communion at I - ggg-ms my changes of feed. the faulty feed- ing methods. The death rate over a period of weeks is sometimes high. but the greater loss results . from failure of some birds to re- cover -completely and to make proper gains. Sound, ratlqnal poultry husbandry, including an adequate diet and an ample sup- ply of clean fresh water, appears to aid in preventing this condi- tion. sudden changes of diet should be avoided, and if the com- mercial ration is adequate. it should not be supplemented with other materials containing protein such as milk, fish meal. and meat scraps. No treatment should be given until it is definitely estab- lished that the birds are no at- feced with some disease or para- sitic infestation. I Artificial Insemination Recent advances have been made in the preservation and storing of bull semen. Present technique pre- serves the fertility of bull semen from three to ten days. This has proven satisfactory in local units but presents a problem in shipping semen long distances. Workers in England and other countries have developed the technique whereby they can freeze bull semen at very low temperatures and maintain its motility and fertility. Along with the development of this new technique we will be con- fronted with many problems par- ticularly in reference to livestock records, for example: If an owner builds up a bull semen bank and then sells the sire. who owns the semen keptin storage by the for- mer owner? Another big question is: What effect will this have on bull sales? It will be interesting to watch the various developments as they take place. Club News The Head of Hillsboro Calf Club reorganized for 1953, Thursday evening, December 18th. Miss Joyce Jordine was in the chair. The financial statement showed that about 363 was collected and the Club still had a balance of about 312.00. The following officers were ap- pointed: . President, Arthur Cameron. vice- president, Joyce Jardlue; secre- tary-treasurer, Joan Douglas; club leader, Comn Douglas; adult Cil- rectors. Louls Cameron. Harold Collin, Ralph Coffin, Morris Deacon, Fieldman for the Department of Agriculture, outlin- ed several extra projects which the Club might undertake for the coming year. He also wished every success to the Club but stressed the need of getting more members. The Club decided that their meeting night would be the second Friday of each month during the winter and that they would meet at 7.30. Appreciation We wish to sincerely thank the Doctors, Nurses and Orderlies for the kindness and splendid care given to our little son Billy while a patient in the Provincial Sana- torium. Also to friends who so kindly and generously remembered him in so many ways. We also take this opportunity to wish the staff and Patients A Very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year- Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Glydon. x , Fredericton. P. E, 1. on IIIPPIIN” egg: EIV'”' 0 make me go live- yov Imma- 6; storey, Ltd? A CENTRAL GUARDIAN This column Is reserved for news of local Interest, but advertising of a newsy nature may be inserted at five cents a word. strictly pay- able In advance. . JIMMY! TAXI - Phone 53!. . : COOK'S for Perfect Pictures. ITHF "FIRST stop to Glggey's Pharmacy. OEABIVELL for Better Photo- graphs. shop” NYDON lHIlTS,- tricot weave. 311.95. Henderson & Cudmore, "YOU! DOLLABSUYB MORE- It the HUGHES DRUG STORE." DIL HEATH MscINTYltE will be absent from his office until Jan. 5th. WHEN PAYING your final in- stallment of City Taxes please bring your stub with you. HAPPY FOOT BOX, by air ex- press, sale 98c. Henderson ll: Cud- more. MUSICAL GIFTS - Guitars. violins. Harmonicas. Portable Pho- nographs. Toombs Music store. INTEREST at the rate of 56 of 17, per month will be charged on all overidue installments. NOIVITIERN ELECTRIC RE- FRIGERATOR - Special low price. Toombs Music store. ARROW "DART" white shirts. by air express. S-1.95. Henderson and Cudmore. GIFTS FOR CHRISTMAS. - Pipes, Tobaccos, Cigars, Cigarettes, Lighters and other Smokers Acces- sories. Fred Lambros. ALL POLL TAX was due and payable on May 15th. Names of de- faulters are still being handed into Court for collection. - FUNERAL AT GLEN VALLEY- The funeral of Vernon Graham Gillis was held from his late resi- dance on Sunday afternoon, De- cember 2lst. Services at the house and grave were conducted by Rev. W. B. MacPhail. The pallbearers were: Norman MacDonald, Cyrus Martin, John Macbennan and Donald Dickleson. and flower- bearers, Kenneth MacDowell, Roy Frizzel, Edward MacDonald and Alton Mlaclrean. Burial was in I-lartsville Cemetery. KEEP THESE IN MIND! Some of the signs cancer are: A lump in the breast. Unnatural bleeding from a body opening. early of A sore that does not heal, par- ticularly of the skin. face, mouth or llps. Any persistent change in bowel habits - such as diarrhoea or constipation. Many Canadians are enjoying life today because they found that early cancer can be cured. Keep these danger signals IPDCQPI Mvekrczrmrmsm -- Mr)! YORK OOLDEIPCREAM CORN. Ir: 4': af1&d'.4Ivo wsgr . "'lY FI1O7HlJEsS'7'.' 1 mode only from then! can semis A Product of Cubed: Dockers mind and see your doctor if one up the stateme strange But True . In I. I. Ilsolrthn It is sometimes extremely dif- llcult to distinguish between life and apparent death. A few illus- trations will make Ithis clear. In India where mystery and magic have always prevailed, the belief seems to have ex ted for genera- that certain men, especially. the fakirs whose existences are full of privatlon and self-inflicted tor- ture have the amazing power of voluntarily putting a complete stop to their, lives for s time and later resuming them quite undisturbed and unchanged. For example our attention is drawn to certain fakirs who were buried in this condition of suspended animation and after a lapse of time have been taken from their graves apparently nor- mal. This strange act is quite as puzzl- ing to the medicos as it'is to the layman. -for according to the usual methods of their practice, they are unable to discover any pulse-beat. respiration or movement of any nerve or muscle, yet where the per- son, supposedly dead, has after a brief sojourn in the grave retum- ed to life. These phenomena are called "apparent death". The cases of the "sleeping miner" and the "sleeping soldier" (authen- ticated medical cas) fall into this class. They cannot' be wnkened un- til they have slept off their death- like trance. . And strange as it may seem some of the lower animals have this power highly developed. . Back in 1719 Leeuwenhoek the man who did much to improve the microscope, discovered that tiny animals known as ratiflers. may turn completely to dust and again be restored to active life simply by placing the animal in water. The awakening takes place as fol- lows: The wet bodv swells up and becomes extended. the wrinkles dis- appear, the extremities project and the creature soon asainnes its nor- mals shape, At first it remains very still: then. after a time. varying. according to the duration of the drying it begins to move. creens away to resume life at the point where "apparent death" interrunted. The seeds of some plants have the ability to retain their power of germination for long Iltllod-I OI time, and it is perhaps worth record- ing at this time. as there would seem to be a similar nhenomena at work in the plant kingdom. Wheat has been known to germin- ate after having been stored for 200 years. corn after a century- These amazing facts call up the following questions. Do dust-dried animals and seeds ossess no met- abolism, or is this metabolism so slight that investigations cannnt determine whether the life nrocess is at a standstill or whether I "vita minima" .0Zx'I;?l,?. From the results of recent ex- ueriments it has been moved that in desiccated organism there if; lifelemness but not death whc is why the dried un animal men; tloned earlier. in this talk.. coll be restored after the implication .We Andi Our Neighbours . by ltuhsmsh Scheinfeld Frank CHRISTMAS MEMORIES Christmas memories! "What Christmas memory from .your childhood still gives you a warm glow? Is there any Christmas ex- perience gm would like to for- get?" We asked these questions of neighbours and friends in country and town, men and wo- men, some in their seventies and eighties. some in their twenties and all ages between. We are glad to say that by far the great- cr number of memories reported to us, were happy ones. And it is these that we shall dwell upon now. In more thoughtful mood. next week, on the threshold of a New Year, we shall discuss a few of the other kind, in the horpe that we may never leave similar heart- aches and that they may offer clues to w-ise relationships with our own children and all children. This recollection goes back sev- enty-six years. but it is as fresh and sparkling-as .newly snowl "Christmas!" exclaimed our friend, and a smile of sheer pleas- ure erased every sign of age. "Christmas always means to me a' little candy man I found in my stocking when I was so hlghT" and he held his hands some six inches apart. 0 !',r:-er:-(vex:-cr:'(-2-zaexvzxzt-zzezicvtes-ta: e 0 "Don't let me shock you," said a woman with grown children of her own, "but the minute you said tChrIstmas', I thought of the can- dy pigs-three of them-that mo- ther put on the tree every year. Each Christmas I go hunting in the shops for candy pigs, but I never find any. Perhaps there aren't any here. (She came from England). Will I ever fonzet how good they taste!"-and she looked like the pretty. mischievous girl of the past-"I used to lick them, a bit at a time, taking them of! and putting them on the tree again, in the days before Christmas, leaving just a shadow of a p1g.i Mother would remark how the iii-J tie creatures kept getting thinner and thinner. Of course she knew why and I knew she knew and loved her for making a game of it and not scolding". . . Kiri 5'67: 3315 . 4 Gifts can mark di-axnaticallyg definite stages in a child's devel-, opment. "One Christmas will stand: out in my memory as long as '1, live", said a young woman in her early twenties. "Mother led me! down-stairs while it was still dark.l and my eyes flew to a bed, bigl enough for me to sleep in, all! made up with mattress and pil- lows and cover. ”'Santa Claus brought the bed for you', Mother told me. tYou will no longer sleep in a crib like a baby. but in a bed just like grown- ups'." . ",If it weren't for that donkey steam engine that I got for Christ- mas when I was eight years old", said a clever young precision man we know, "I don't believe I would have found the work I'd rather of water. liiotlilintz brim! dnd 15 .. orggnlsmcsiiffiaccult To determine the exact moment of death because certain cell-comnlexes continue to live for a long time after the helrl ceases beating. If this be true-and in we have medical authority to back nt-there is P: gel- flnite point of time at who 9 ceases and death begins: but therzl from normal, life to complete death which fl;-i qumuy begins to be notices ex is a gradual passage during the course of a disease. Mmy persons believe that oer-l tain insects orlzlhlte IIITGCIIY "M" lifeless matter. Thu belie! anrlnzs from the fact that the insects re- ferred to originated in some un- known form. Indeed. the story 01 the theory of spontaneous senor!- tion is one of the most fantastic in all biology. If the londevlty of a belief were an index to its truth. the theory of spontaneous genera- tion should take first rank among the verecities for it flourished throughout twenty centuries down to the present day. IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear Mother. ' MRS. DAVID MaoKAY Died December 22nd, 1048. Inserted by Son Arthur and Family. IN MEMORIAM In sad and loving memo , of Elmer Msobouald. who lost his life during storm Christmas Eve, De- cember 24th. 1947. You left us a beautiful memo y. A sorrow too great to be told. not to us who have loved and lost 30". Your memory will never grow old. Ever Remembered by Dad. Mother. Brothers and sisters. -.......... IN MEMORIAM In loving memory of our dear brother Samuel Les noulter who went to his eternal borne December 24th, 1951. You have a home above From sin and sorrowlfresi A Mansion which out-nal love Designed and formed for thee. Your !avlour's precious blood. Ilsa made your title sure: He passed through death's dark ' raging flood To make your rest secure. We recall your faithful warnings And your prayers for us you loved May we heed them: and this need you." In your happy home above. fallen J do than est-anyway not so soon. Father gave me the engine because he noticed how curious I was about everything that moved, and when he saw how crazy about it. I was, he helped me build a shop in the basement, and I was all set... I O 0 Let us hasten to add, quickly, that not every gift of a mechan- ical nature leads to su ess in those fields. Nor does every toy piano, or fife-or drum. or violin -or trumpet-lead to a musical career! On: of our outstanding citizens, for example, cherishes above other memories of Christ- mas, the gift of a tin trumpet, grayly striped and fringed. Yet music has not figured largely in his life-But. come to think of it -it has! A wife with decided musical ability may have more than a coincidental connection with his devotion to that Christ- mas trumpet! Most of the happy memories of Christmas relate! to us, centered around a particular gift, Usually, however. it was not so much ihel gift that left the indelible implies-' sion, but its linkage with the be- loved donor, as we note clearly in these concluding recollections. ”As I look back", said one wo-4 man wistfully, "a shining memoryl is a smell doll,on the Christmas tree when I was about ilve years old. She was dressed in ruffly white clothes that mother had sewed for her, and she was so lovely and bright, that tiny as I was. I felt that mother and I would be happy again. Father had died and it had been a sad year" 0 I O ' "I shall never forget the Christ- mas my father came to my room after dark, and brought me the teddy bear". said a friend of ours. "It wasn't just an ordinary bear. when you pressed a button at the end of a. cord. attached to its nose, its eyes lit up. How I loved that teddy bear! Its eyes stopped lighting; its paws wore out and were mended again and again- and years later, John. (her son) played with it. I couldn't bear to give it away. and at last the poor old teddy bear just fell apart And do you know," our friend said wonderlngly. "when I got up en- ough courage and popped IL mm the furnace one daycwhcn I op. ened the door again. and tried to Dull it out. But was too far gone wild 1 actually sat down and cried!" . Lillie gms--simple gifts----that leave feelings of love and accept- ance that last through a l:fc- time. . KICKKNIIKKKIIIKKKKIKKIKKIIKKIKP(lllKI('EKl('l5!K'15(K1'('U(K'l 1'06 LIONS one and all and PROSPERO TNE CNARLOTTETOWN Cordiolly thank all who recently patron- ized their sale of Christmas Trees, and wish A VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS Dill-ltialtltlubllhititlvlrltlil-II)!ltlviillillaltlz)i)i)IM)ilsDu).)u)4)h):)a3zII3aI.)u)) CLIIB us NEW YEAR is!-:5-VhzlrhixzV?n&MB:)I22.23.).ZR:i ll EJUEKKKI ,, holiday. :31; MERRY CHRISTMAS , FROM SIMPSON'S AGENCY.-and ORDER TCFFICE We will close Christmas Eve at 6 o'clock and remain closed until Monday morning at I 9. in order to give our staff a well earned MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY '1 ---! magnu- In 3IP.S!"' .2"! III? 5. A. lovingly Remembered by all ills Brothers and Sisters. of y'oiT;Iotroi?g"s”5bd good will . - o 6 1; MERRY CHRISTMAS "FIIY. 9l3P?”"!lI9D