Canker
(1) in medicine, a collection of small sloughing ulcers in the mouth, especially of children; called also water canker. (2) In horticulture, a kind of gangrenous disease to which fruit-trees especially are liable, beginning in the younger shoots and gradually extending to the trunk. (3) In farriery, a disease in horses' feet causing a discharge of fetid matter from the cleft in the middle of the frog, generally originating in a diseased thrush. 1 Photo, British and Colonial Press OPENING OF THE CANADIAN PARLIAMENT IN THE NEW PARLIAMENT BUILDING AT OTTAWA, FEBRUARY 26, 1920 Enc. Vol. 2-p. 324 Courtesy Canad.an Pacific LAKES-IN-THE-CLOUDS, AT DIFFERENT LEVELS, CANADIAN ROCKIES Courtesy Canadian Pacific ROCK FORMATIONS CALLED "HOODOOS," NEAR THE BOW RIVER AND MT. RUNDLE, CANADIAN ROCKIES Courtesy Canadian Pacific THE "THREE SISTERS," NEAR BANFF, CANADIAN ROCKIES Colonial Press Service A "HOODOO" OF THE RED DEER RIVER DISTRICT Publishers' Photo Service THE HARBOR OF COLOMBO, ISLAND OF CEYLON Publishers' Photo Service HOUSEBOATS AT COLOMBO, CEYLON Photo by Ewing Galloway