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‘Page 10 The Herald, Tuesday, May 8, 1979,

Draft horses coming back |

MELBOURNE, “Australia
(CP) — Heavy draft horses,
the ambling, amiable giants
that powered industry
through a century of
Australian development, are
re-emerging as crowd-
pleasers at country fairs and
horse shows.

After 40 years of relative
oFovurity, the "farm
locomotives" that pulled
wagons, plows and har-
vesters are sparking the in-
terest of people who have
never before seen them.

And the big, surefooted
beasts are welcomed today
as one hope for energy and
ecological problems of the
future.

Even their strongest
supporters do not believe
that the draft horses can
reverse the tide. of

- mechanizatlon on the land,

but they do feel the animals

can compliment the work

performed by machines.
Big horses from England,

.Belgium and France figured

in the early development of
draft.horses in Australia.
The main influence on the
type probably was the
Clydesdale, a breed familiar
to Scottish and Irish settlers,
which proved adaptable to
the temperate climate of

» southern Australia.

On the 60th anniversary of
the Commonwealth
Clydesdale Horse Society in
Australia last year, this
breed led a parade through
the cily of Melbourne.

Their appeal is linked to a
resurgence of public interest
in Australian history and a
revival of a more rural
lifestyle.

Before the -era of
bulldozers and earthmovers,
draft horses dragged iron
scoops to cut- irrigation
channels and canals. They
were used in the building of
reservolrs and railway em-
bankments; they cleared the
land and hauled timber,

wheat and wool long
distances over roads that
were simply wheel tracks,
deep In dust during summer
and in mud to the axles in
winter:

The horse population of all
breeds peaked in Australia
at 2,527,000 in 1918. And then

thelr displacement by motor .

transport and tractor-

powered farm machines-

began.

By the end of the Second
World War, horses had
almost disappeared, except
for a few teams and wagons
retained far advertising or
sentiment.

Some of their last
strongholds were in the
delivery stables of city milk

distributors, Horses learned

their rounds — something
motor vehicles could never
do — and were more .ef-
fective and economical, For
many years they clip-
clopped their way through
streets at night and early

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morning, keeping pace while
the driver made household
deliveries,

On farms where they were

‘once the prime source of

pulling power, harnessed for

plowing and harvesting in
teams of eight to 14 or.-mara, ©.
a few horses werd saved by |

some breeders and en-
thusiasts who successfully
maintained the type
standard of their animals,

There were 163
Clydesdales entered In the
1978 Royal Melbourne Show

*— part of a record entry of

about 2,300 horses and ponies

of all types and classes -

nominated for. show ring,
harness and riding events,

Draft horses now are
firmly established as a
regular feature .at rural
shows and on a number of
farms. They are ready to
take on any odd job requiring
strength and some old-

fashioned “horse sense’ in 7

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The Red-Cross is asking for your help and donations . E

Cancer Society supportive —

“Dr David

WINNIPEG (CP) =- When
a woman goes into hospital
.with breast cancer her chief,
concer is removing the’
cancer to save her life. But
once the breast Is gone, it
hits home. to her. ‘

That’s when Marjorie
Harvey: and the. other
volunteers with the

* Canadian Cancer . Soclety’s

mastectomy visitation
service are ready to step in
with information and help.

“We've all had mastec-
tomies ourselves and have
been trained by doctors and
physiotherapists for the
service, Unfortunately we
don’t sea every mastectomy
patient because we can only

Go in at the request of a

doctor, nurse or the patient
herself, ” .
: There now are $0 volun-

- teers in Manitoba taking

part in the service, begun in
1972 in an effort te reach

‘| mastectomy patients before
‘they leave, hospital to

provide them with practical

Eiger a Me following

Bowman, ©
medical adviser to the

Manitoba Cancer Treatment ©

and Research Foundation,
estimates that one Ma-
witoban woman in 15
develops breast cancer,

In. 1977, 150 Manitobans
died because of itand 438 had
mastectomies.

“It’s easy to be depressed
after ‘a mastectomy,” says
Miss Harvey.’ In hospital
you're distracted by visitors

and nurses. But when you're

alone at home, there’s time
tk think about what you te look
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‘Milas Harvey says that

after a'pitlent is first visited .

by a’ volunteek;-she ‘is left
with a kit of-inforrnation tips
to recovary, a phamphlet for .
husbands of - mastectomy
patients and -her first
prosthesis (artificial
breast).

She says the prosthesis,
which looks like a wad of

- cottan, batting covered in |
i. flesh covered -nylon,..is_a _],

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morale booster until:the
woman's doctor says she can:
get a -fitted ‘prosthesis to
wear,

The visitor also leaves her
name and number for the
‘woman to call any time after’
the operation to ask
queations.

“We -always make a
follow-up call to a patient a
week or two after she's come
home, Often women say they
have a apestion they didn't
want to bether their doctor

_with, like, ‘Can I wear a‘

deodorant’ again?’ ° .
- “Medical ‘questions we

“pefer back to their doctors,
‘But wecan help’ with the .

others. With the use of
deodoranta, it depends on

Head

‘what, ‘type of - “surgery te
woman has had," ae:

Miss Harvey. says a
woman may. not .need-:a
deodorant if. her swent
glands also have':been.re-
moved in the operation. S

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-“If she can wear a
deodorant, one brand mi
irritate the still tender. i
and she'll have. to’ fry. a
different kind, or just use

baby powder for a while. ",

| Miss Harvey says oné-of
the patients she visited
recently said how much she
had appreciated the service
and wanted to know how-ahe
too could become a visitdr.

“That's when 3 knew, weld
done some g

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‘? WASHINGTON |".

frogs, in the Calveras
County Jumping Jubilee,
r an amiual event based on
a classic short story by
Mark Twain, are going
metric this year. —

Underlining the
steadily accelerating
mave by the United States
toward the international
system of weights and
measures, the leggy
amphibians at the jubilee
in May will not be leaping
in feet and inches, says
the U.S. Metric Board,
- Instead,-they will be
jumping in centimetres.

Malcolm O'Hagan, the
U.S. Metric Board’s
executive director,
predicts that before 1900
the U.S. will have vir:
‘tually completed its
conversion to the metric
system.

The Metric Conversion
Act of 1975 established the
board to coordinate and
plan use of the metric
system in the United
States through a process
of voluntary conversion.

But more than 150 years
ago, John Quincy A Adams,

_ GOING METRIC.

(Reuter)... Even the pre

_ commitments to

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gress, It was the firat U.S."
metric atudy.
Many of the larger U.S. !

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firms have made public ;

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SP oo

go ;
metric. In the automobile :
industry, for example, '
most cars are expected to :
be built to metric stan :
dards and Specifications »
by 1880. :

Each of the 50 states is’ ;
phasing iri = metric :
education activities. :
Thirty-two state legigla- °
tures have taken formal -
“go metric” action. 7

_ Metricconsumer :
products are increasing. '
In addition to such items -
as 35-millimetre film and
Sh}milligram Vitamin C
tablets, Americans can
“now buy soft drinks in
one-litre bottles,

Following a four-year :
conversion period which ;
ended Jan. 1, all wine sold :
in the United States is in ;
metric bottles, except for é
aging ing wine bottled prior -

ret the distilled spirits |

ndustry, ‘metric bottles :
wi be mandatory from
next Jan, i

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