Show THE DEATH CAMAS keep your sheep arm the death camas says the U S department of agriculture to ranchmen ranchman ranch men cattle and horses should also be kept from this herb although actual fatalities aroi from the poisoning are almost entirely rely confined to sheep nausea muscular weakness and coma are some of the P principal n n cipal symptoms of the poisoning pois ning is no satisfactory medical remedy but affected live stock if kept quiet for some time will often recover I 1 the death camas is most dangerous eary in the season not because the pant is more poisonous at that time but because it is more likely to be eaten at that time when other for age is dry latter sheep are less likely to eat a large quantity because of the gre eater abundance of other food As a matter of fact most of the cases of extensive poisoning have occurred before the flowering of the plant which occurs in the late spring it is ia impossible to make even of the i losses of she sheep ep bee because a ube of the but it is certain that they are arc very heavy In eions have led specialists to believe I 1 that many of the losses in in oregon utah and california which were aserio ascribed ed to other plants were really I 1 poisonous caused by the death calad camas and without doubt this plant is one of the sources of the greatest loss to sheep owners in in i wyoming and montana it is said that in 1909 in one county in wyoming sheep died because of the zyga denus description of the death camas the death camas may be decd recd recognized ging by botic noticing its leaves which are long narrow and shaped as though they had a keel they grow from a bulb the flowers are greenish yellow or white the plants are perennial blossoming bloss oming in the late spring or early summer and then disappearing this poisonous herb occurs abundant ely in the mountain regions of the north and although found bound very widely throughout the united states it is only in region that i it t has the he western of sufficient importance become acome the plant is to be noticed called wild onion sometimes allied to it are the other names plant alkali grass esquirel soap and poison food mystery grass sego children have bee been n poisoned by the death C camas amas there have been c cases ases of human poisoning aswell as well as stock of eating as the result poisoning the deadly herb most of the who been children have cases and found the bulbs attractive of instead have collected them have edible camas there the although of fatalities been a number most cases recover anew bulletin of the U ja S department of agriculture no description a more particular gives with illustrations of this plant which will be of interest eustrat lust rations ons on western stock ranges although it has been written particularly as a professional more account giving an paper of the various remedies for the poison which have bave been tried 1 0 |