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UPCOMING TOURS Q Feb. 14-16 - A Valentine's Mystery Tour Lz Feb. 15-16 - Welter Ostanek and Progressive Dinner Tour Feb. 21 -Mar. 08 - Florida including "The Strawberry Festival" LI Feb. 28 -Mar. 08 - Myrtle Beach: The new home of the stars Ls Mar. 04 -Mar. 06 -The Irish Rovers, The Party in Toledo Mar. 06-08 - Papal Treasures on Display In Cleveland Q Mar. 14-22 - Branson FanFest. A very specially priced tour Q Apr. 03-06 - Ouilter's Delight Tour. Jurled display, Lancaster, PA For further information, please call the office. 8 THE RURAL VOICE Scrap Book Alberta breeder seeks 4-nippled sheep The mathematics seem simple — if ewes with two teats can profitably mother lambs, shouldn't ewes with four teats do twice the job? That's the belief of Sundre, Alberta sheep breeder Ron Gale. He has spent 12 years breeding his own line of four-nippled sheep. He has named his breed Bergen sheep after the area of western Alberta where he lives. It's a white sheep with black nose and hoofs, good wool and milking ability and four teats. "We want a big wool and meat sheep," Gale says. "It's a big white ewe that can raise four lambs." Gale has examined thousands of ewes' udders searching for animals with two extra teats. It's important that all four teats produce milk in order for the ewe to be able to feed more Iambs. He has about 60 ewes and lambs that fit his criteria. By transplanting embryos, he hopes to build his flock to 400 during the next two years, after which he expects there will be enough Bergen sheep to sell commercially. "We've been working at it for a long time now and we're getting close," Gale says. "We just have to hang together through the next couple of years." Gale isn't the first person to figure there should be profit in sheep with four nipples. Dr. Alexander Graham Bell carried out experiments on his Baddeck, Nova Scotia estate in 1889 after noticing that ewes with more than two nipples gave birth to more twins. But other scientists aren't so sure there's a lot to be gained from sheep with four nipples. Wray Whitmore, sheep specialist with Alberta Agriculture, says in most ewes with four nipples, 95 per cent of the milk comes from the two main nipples and five per cent from the extra nipples, confusing new lambs that latch on to the unproductive teats. "It's usually seen as a fault, not something that is bred for," he says. "It's not really what you want. It's just two extra spigots on the same half of the udder." Gale, however, thinks his sheep will be in demand.0 — Source: Western Producer Pesticides on vegetables don't increase cancer Increasing consumption of fruits and vegetables that may contain minute pesticide residues does not raise the risk of cancer, says a report in the November 15 issue of Cancer. The report, authored by Len Ritter of the Canadian Network of Toxicology Centres, headquartered at the University of Guelph, says eating more fruits and vegetables can reduce the risk of cancer and far outweigh potential adverse health effects, if any, that result from their consumption. "Exposure to pesticides is likely to account for only a very small proportion of human cancers," says Ritter, who prepared the report on behalf of a panel formed by the Canadian Cancer Society and National Cancer Institute of Canada. "Tobacco use is the single most preventable cause of cancer. Efforts to eliminate tobacco use and enhance dietary habits must remain priorities for cancer control and prevention strategies." The Canadian Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute of Canada formed the ad hoc panel in 1994 to review current scientific knowledge about pesticides and cancer, prompted by growing public concern that contact with chemical pesticides may be a major cause of cancer. In its report, the panel said no increase in overall cancer risk has appeared in the past 15 years. In a report in 1981, a scientific review of environmental causes of human cancer determined about two per cent of total cancer deaths could be linked to all forms of environmental pollution affecting air, water and food. The panel found that safety regulations provide the public with a wide margin of safety and that agricultural pesticides play a substantial role in providing affordable and high quality food products, especially fruits and vegetables.0 — Source: University of Guelph