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Practice good husbandry at Hoey farm lamb births synchronized for Easter LANDMARK FOR over years in Conservation Park this stately elm is disappearing into piles of kindling as axes and saws wielded by park officers are busy four foot thick tree had Dutch Elm disease Staff Photo No Harry Edwards recovers after fall in cellar retired village constable Harry Edwards is now recovering from his recent fall which fortunately was not serious enough to entail broken bones or other injuries While stoking the furnace at his home Mr Edwards who had been suffering from the flu tripped last Wednesday afternoon and for hours crawled about and moved his limbs in an effort to keep from freezing after the fire burned out too ill to pull himself up the cellar stairs A concerned visit from his daughter Lisa resulted in the required assistance of his neighbor Louis Hilts who carried him to his bed and after applying heat and blankets called the doctor After a checkup at the hospital he was released witha physicians diagnosis of jht frostbite without breaking injuries Mr Edwards is presently recuperating nicely under doctors care at his home on Main Street meeting to discuss snowmobiles rules A meeting was held in the building at the ball park last Monday night with six men organized as a committee discussing and planning with Jim Muir the Conservation Park superintendent the possibilities involved in foundation rule setting for local With the number of vehicle operators around the village growing at a considerable rate concern has been shown by many residents and particularly the Rockwood park officials in regard to lack of park courtesy resulting in considerable tree and small bush damage The six man committee composed of Bruce Richardson Frank Jimmic Milne Louis Hilts Eddy Kingsbury and Charles Petty after their discussion of proposals and suggestions will set up a brochure of rules and regulations which they including J irti will present at an open meeting for all snowmobile operators or anyone interested including youngsters with access to the machines Next Sunday Jan at the Rockwood Centennial School at pjn is the hour and date of the proposed open event Everyone is invited to attend Comins and Goins The Christmas gettogether party was an evening of fun Saturday December when children and grandchildren of Mrs L Day congregated at the home of Grace and George on Jackson Street along with Mrs J Grace Days mother A real fun evening of togetherness which was dulled only by the absence of Jean Day who is still residing in England Good friends of Harry Edwards missing htm around the village will be happy to know that he is now recuperating from his recent illness of flu and also his fall They arc looking forward to seeing him on his local walks Approximately visitors dropped in for an after New Year visit recently on Mrs Alice Hilts Main Street Guests included nephew Mr Thomas Wad din ton and his wire and children from Preston and Mrs Johnson and her daughter and son from The United Church ladies catered last Saturday evening to a 7 JO pan banquet for 120 and vicinity trail riders of the Circle A The catering ladies had received some good publicity about the marvellous dinner they served to the Rockwood Trail Riders recently at the Rockwood town hall and decided to emulate the village riding club A good hot meal was the order of the day and the Guetph customers went home happy Two visitors were seen recently One a sleek and lovely deer from a kitchen window peering with curiosity at its viewer the other standing complacently beneath the sign as if reading Crown Game Preserve No Hunting and Trapping was a young buck who seemed quite certain that the notice insured complete safety It was fun see Rick Wall back in his old haunt when he came down from Midland to spend weekend with his mother Mrs Ruth Wall and his grandmother Mis Winch Hals arc off to little Jean Bonner the 9yearold daughter of Mr and Mrs H Bonner of R Rockwood who has been creating great spectator interest at the local rink with her skating abilities A member of the Guelph Skating Club Jean has been taking private lessons for three years and is presently working for her Bronze qualifying examinations for her Junior Bronze medal Mrs Rhodes one of newest residents living on Guelph Street and the sister of Mrs Rose Oakcs has now been released from the General Hospital after her recent illness and recuperating at home Neighbors will be pleased to know she is getting better DJT depots A program presently being established by the Department of Health for the Wellington and Waterloo districts will be announced shortly regarding depots where supplies of DDT insecticides etc can be taken for disposal by the Ontario Department of Health Although dates are pending depots are being considered at Rockwood town hall the Eramosa township offices and Eden Mills By Lorraine Root With a hope of accomplishing synchronized lamb production on her Elm Tree Farm location near Rockwood Mrs Elizabeth Hoey has resorted this year to the good husbandry method of breeding Lambing at just any season of the year instead of at one specific season is disorganized and sometimes detrimental said Mrs Hoey recently It is much more efficient to know that the sheep will have their lambs all within as nearly as possible the same span of time both from the standpoint of the specialized breeder who makes a point of being on hand to watch that their animals dont get into difficulties and also from that of marketing Lambing in early winter especially handy for the ethnic market at Easter time as it is the biggest and most highly priced one there is and to have a number of young animals all about the same age and size is better from a business standpoint This Easter trade usually requires the lambs come right from their mothers insuring young tender meat so almost immediately from the weaning stage when they arc about IK to months old weighing around to pounds the young animals arc shipped to Toronto for distribution Round firm and fully packed as the add says said Mrs Hoey as she displayed a bottle with a long nipple attached which she occasionally has to use for lambs who dont cotton easily to the proximity of the dairy facilities The him Tree Farm is at the moment a beehive of activity Elizabeth Hoey assisted by her daughter Caroline and son Peter must be constant surveillance in case the mother sheep produce more than one offspring in too quick an order thus having to neglect the first arriving lamb who if not attended almost immcdntely could choke from mucus cold from dampness or not be revived completely the laymans point of view the business of raising young lambs is a highly skilled and intricate one Last year the discovered through the introduction of a research program dealing with few chosen farms the value of synchronized lamb production using a British manufactured compound which was given orally to the ewes to see how effectively it could arrange breeding regularity Because there is such a minimal demand for 1 meat required for food consumption as compared to beef and poultry however research in this field has since been dropped and the compound is now impossible to procure Having found the synchronous method of raising the young lambs the most advantageous from their point of view the are now resorting to do the same thing only in its most natural state which was called in the early English days good husbandry Elm Tree Farm has breeding ewes in this good husbandry method of regulated production a change of atmosphere is used instead of the compound and two weeks prior to the breeding time of the ewes months bciore the lambing period they are put into cool dark pens instead of roaming outside in the warmth and sunshine Usually a date is set with intervals of fifteen days between cadi batch of new born lambs which means that the arrivals could stretch tobc a six week long out procedure with the ewe resting period in the early morning am hours the usual one for lamb delivery Most Canadnn sheep produce singles or turns and lamb breeding farmers usually do not expect to find triplets although one enterprising American couple in the United States have got their procedures down to a science and with an oral compound of hormones have been able to six lambs at one time They have since cut down the quantity of the extract said Mrs Hoey As they have found two or three lambs more easily handled There are risks involved in sheep having their offsprings loo rapidly as immediately the small animal is produced the mother taking only minutes to rest then begins to lick him rapidly with her tongue circulation to be stimulated Within two minutes the husky lamb is on his feet feeding ONLY A FEW HOURS old this pair of lambs don take long to find the dinner pail while mother ewe dries them oft with her tongue They were born at the farm in last Friday Staff Photo Ask return grant looking station If however another twin is born before the first has been completely stimulated to liTe he could he dormant and never be revived So it is necessary for the professional sheep man to be on hand to get the twin arrivals cleaned up in quick succession and also to make certain that the young lamb is dried off and kept Although in the sheep raising business as a profession who uses some of her own sheared wool for weaving and making woolen garments Elizabeth Hoey also Ins an affection for her animals with special attachments for certain ones One friendly ewe has followed her around since it was a limb bunting her with its head and even now fully grown still looks for Elizabeths irrival at the bam Then there Peter who as a tiny spent a summer in visiting a village lad attending ball games and taking jaunts in he park Gig is a real pet who with a little girl portraying Mary had a little lamb nursery tale won first prize at one of the Rockwood annual and one other ewe has even been perpetuated on film as the stir performer drinking from a bottle in the production of Country Magazine with George Atkinson This year the date of January had been set as the hopeful funic of the 1970 crop of babies at the LlmTree Farm But sjid Elizabeth Hoey There is alwiys the possibility of lite arrivals and so like chickens they cant be counted until theyve been hitched Tho Acton Fre Press Wednesday January B3 Lectures at University attended by RAPE rep The University of Guelph is Maitlands Air of presenting a scries of mine committee wan discussed by Dr discussions entitled Man and Wlnegard who specified that the quality of his environment although there had been reason The series which started up on for concern the newspapers had Monday January 2 will run on managed to overplay a situation consecutive Mondays until which publicized as insoluble March 1970 is being held in the Physical Science Building at times of 7 to in Room With a paragraph reading In the midst of the affluence of Canadian life some say that our future is doomed because of pollution Clean unpolluted is rare Our air is often overloaded with irritating chemicals Even the vast expanses of recreational parks are threatened by mans wastes A letter brochure has been sent out to many organizations inviting everyone interested in this serious and enlightening prognm to attend Tills scries of lectures arc utilizing the minds dealing with the science of soil and knowledge of some of is on the agenda with M H Canadas most outstanding Miller as the speaker for the was in fact cleared up by vacuuming procedure right within the plant According to 50 of nil air pollution can be directly traced to cars trucks and buses as the chief offenders A AntiPollution representative attended the meeting to report to her home committee on the part which it can play According to Mrs John Clark the whole evening was of tremendous value to any citizen and members of RAPE arc being encouraged to attend the remaining eight tectum The Challenge of the Land One small but important item discussed at a recent Eramoia township meeting was a from the Ontario Department of Education requesting that a 200 grant received by the Eramosa Recreation Department for Youth Leadership Courses be returned to the Department of Education The youth leadership courses Mrs Day celebrates 80th birthday Birthday were pi and held last Wednesday evening at her home for Mrs Lcoh Day Mam Street An exciting sit down supper to which all the guests contributed their specialties was by a pretty centrepiece computed of daisy mums purple and pink rosebuds which Mrs Days daughter Marion had brought from Burlington along with a specially made cake for the occasion It was a family affair to which the family of four children feted their mother on her birthday Fred Day and his wife Margaret from Marion and Milton Greer from Burlington George and Grace Day of and Roy Day from Toronto Many present cards flowers and a telegram from a sister in Engl ind Mrs R Parish reminded the well known lady just how well she was liked Residents of also wished her happy birthday are government sponsored and summer school leaders attend each summer as a preparation guide whore they taught leadership crafts teaching know how and all other facets dealing with it pertains to youth of tho recreation a leadership The di Rockwood summer playground made tho grant an undeserved fringe bo n of it and must be returned to donors authorities in their fields Provided for the public without as part of the continuing education program of the Ontario Agnculturil College the first of the series was conducted by Dr W C Wmgard and the lecture auditorium of the building was packed with people some even seated on the flours It was a cross section agegroup of young and old with a panel of university students on hand to present the fust group of questions to the humourous and knowledgeable speaker whose topic of the problems of environmental quality dealt mainly with actual air pollution difficulties Several reports were referred to and after the student panel had completed their score of questions the program was then thrown open to public discussion One interesting referral deal with the Smokestack Report conducted some months ago in Toronto and one of the participators in the public discussion period was the gentleman who had made the original study The Hall report on Port Other lecture entitlements include waste utilization and disposal fish and wildlife in a changing environment plant life in a changing environment the city and its environment mock court Corporation Limited vs John Doe social aspects of pollution and as the finale A future with pollution control York Aluminum Co MIDWINTER DISCOUNT ON ALUMINUM SHUTTERS CUSTOM MADE IN 15COLORS CALL LEO January Drug Sale JAN JAN 24 YELLOW TAG SALE Now At HINTONS Your Baker may think of you as a number but to your Safeco Agent youre a person not a number For special Student Discounts on your Family Auto Insurance all 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