Show Federal Scientists I Cure Prussic Acid Poisoning Poisoning- 1 An effective e cute cuie CUI c for prussic aCH pOIsoning of livestock li It has haq been die dis disco CO coveted Cl ed by veterinary scientists or of orthe the United States State Department or of I Sodium alone 01 oi better bettel yet set et in m combination I with sodium nitrite nitrate if administer administered lster ed cd in m time will Ill Cla cave Clae e a e the 11 lists Ii S of animals poisoned by b L eating plants which for foi one 1 season cason or another mothel e ha have hae e de developed pi prussic acid or hv by oceanic acid Treatment should be by a skilled veterinarian and the Bureau of Animal Industry andI IS I informing the profession as to the of administration and es- es essential es essential results of the experimental ork I es-I w ork acid doe does not devel devel- develop develop develop op in dangerous dan elous quantities m in healthy growing VIng plants but does develop in m many forage plants when normal norm Growth lowth has s been retarded or stopped by drought frost bruising wilting mo mowing mg 01 of other othel cause Many plants de develop elop elop some hy- hy hyI hydl hy-di hy I dl oc oceanic acid but undo practical conditions on onh onla a fe fa ware are dang erous dangerous Among the more widely widel Ide-h Ide I distributed of these are the sot COl Johnson grass fla flax arrow grass Sudan Sud grass wild black i cherry and wild gild not the which Inch is a n differ differ- different ent ent species A B Clawson H Bunyea and j J 1 r F Couch of the bureau of ani ani- ani mal industry in testing various chemicals as remedies for pruSSIC acid poisoning found that meth lone lena bIll hint blue sodium sodium nitrite sodium el weme e effective c and that sodIUm in combination wIth sodium nitrite was surprisingly effective e In thc these le experiments the list of the tho kind hind conducted under field conditions conditio ms the were drenched with dose dose- of potassIUm in water langing from n a alethal alethal lethal dose to 2 2 times the lethal dose The remedies were acre ere adminis adminis- administered administered at vanous times after time the cyanide was as given n |