Show PLANTS FATAL I TO 22 O ANIMALS ANIMAl I IS REPORT PO J Poisonous Growths Kill Off Cattle and Sheep Safeguards Are Tried to Save Lives of Stock rr THE lIE losses of livestock within 1 Western Vestern national forests and largely in the state of Utah from poisonous plants aggregated r about attle- attle and and- sheep shee d past year according to a report issued by the United States forestry service Larkspur and the I loco weed have b been boen en the chief sources of this loss in the great gret basin or in Utah The department urges urges' that everything ever possible be done to eradicate eradicate eradicate cate these plants plant The principal I poisonous plants on the ranges are the locos and lupines of the pea family to which also belong the alfalfas and vetches etches water hemI hemlock hemlock hem hem- lock or poison polson parsnip of the parsley parsley I family which includes the much relIshed rel- rel vegetable celery death camas which resembles wild onion of the family and the much dreaded dread d larkspurs of the crowfoot family of which the buttercup and the peony are familiar representatives COVER MUCH TERRITORY I The distribution these of-these or these plants is isI with wide over Western estern ranges and I the exception of larkspur they are conI considered con con- poisonous to all classes of I i I stock H The locos probably cause more damage dam 1 age to livestock than any other single group of plants The larkspur causes excessive e loss to cattle but does not I harm sheep I SAFEGUARDS TRIED Various methods for preventing pIe cerious ce- ce Erious rious loss by larkspur have been tried such as grazing by sheep fencing off cattle from Infected areas and by grubbing out the plants In n grubbing the root must be cut off oft from six to eight Inches below the ground I Th The cost of grubbing varies from fromI 20 to 13 per acre acie and n between ree 1915 I II I and 1917 I more than a quarter u million I acres s of cattle range were freed of ot tall tan I i larkspur at a cost of Cattle Valued at were saved in 1917 1917 as the result of or grubbing on nine forests forests for for- ests Further U 1 r cooperation 0 between e I rth gl 1 t stockmen ione ana th the forestry service on- on this matter is urged i |