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Show Poisonous Weed Flourishes In Millard Area Hallgeton, a weed poisonous to . livestock was found well present in all areas in a weed tour made in West Millard Monday. The weed is so. general that residents will have to learn to live with it, as there are no measures adequate to kill it out. The weed is closely related to the Russian thistle and smother weed. It is wind-borne, and believed be-lieved to be scattered along the highways and worked out from there. It contains 18 of oxalate, which is poisonous. Livestock usually us-ually Will not eat it in its growing grow-ing stage, when it is 80 water. It has been found that when a cow is eating other feeds, 2 of the body weight eaten of haloget-on haloget-on will be fatal. A hnugry or starv ing animal, eating land a third percent of weight of halogeton will die. Ordinarily the animals will not eat it, as they do not like lit. Instances have been found where salt-hungry sheep will eat it when other forage is available, with fatal fat-al results. The weed seems to have a salt content they like. 2-4D will kill the seeds, but not the plants. A party of 36 men, state and county representatives and local stockmen, made the tour Monday. Three stops were made between Delta and Lynndyl, and the weed was found and identified. In the group were Dr. Curtis, state veterinarian, commissioer, Tracy Welling of the state department depart-ment of agriculture, J. Bryant Anderson, And-erson, state weed and seed supervisor, super-visor, Pratt Allred, range supervis- or, two representatives from the Utah Farmer, Blaine Robinson, state weed inspector, Soil Conservation Conser-vation Service representative, and Rodney Rickenback and Lee Rogers Rog-ers of the county agent's office. |