| Show N POISONING IN THE NAT ONAL FOREST government making an effort to als cover antidote and thus save cattlemen heavy losses 1 1 I lie ho losnes to tho gittlemen in ane states filin aiom I Lai kapur pots eedy icar car liae hane been so sell seii ous ou that tile the government is 13 making i effort to find an antidote fot foi tile the poison as well as to erad rate tho the plant itself in the ho gunnion Gunn laon national forest Coloia colliado do the loess to the stockmen stoc kmen kinen last season fiant larkspur were con F estimated to equal almost 6 per cent ent of tile the total number of cattle attle grazed graced upon that foiest its ech arts ato aie almost immediate death follows the eating of the plant within a rc ii liams ou s for or this leason lem edles ale aie of little avail tile the animals lie aie gonei ally dead be tore lore they ale fioril ft the bureau of industry lit in operation cooperation co with the tor for service lime haci made cageful lind and painstaking investigations in tile he hold with a view of lessening the loisea lo isea as far as po possible sible while sev cral different plans havo have been tiled in hopes of l destroying tho ilant I 1 lant glows gios nei eo in the eaily spring on oil the gunelson Gunn lson son forest lit in hine 1901 the foiest of counted more than 1300 plants in ill bloss blossom upon a single squire ire rod the fcc vi to be more poison ouy oils in hot dim went liei than in dr seasons Boa sons and it has been hc cn observed that hat alun the ground lg Is haid and dai it so ao that lit hi it tile the stellia bielk off leaving tho the toots loots in tho the gro ground tind it Is not so 10 in its ef facts since certain areas uro are well known to he be badly infested with nith lir kapur the stockmen stoc kmen have been in ili the habit of if hebding their tattle f from rom such auch places ag A far aa a possible poil tiles these e arcag areis will mill be fenced 15 b the forest f ealce er erl ico ce on other meas where it Is not so plentiful the plants plant i will mill bo be ring jug out iv bv tile the foiest ita ligers and alq also mowed off to prevent seeding again it lias has also been found that tile the plant will mill not hold its own mn agil list binds of glasses such as urn till othy A few fea nel F gowrd md in ill ma me helm cal bait fully watched Nate hed ind it I 1 Is bp bel belleek enod leed that it Is ij crowding the lark iiri fulir bible that b f out it seems pio plo boang timothy on the lie eadoms the larkspur larke lark pur could io be kiad giad nill smothered amoth ored and ic placed by a al alu ablo forage plant it if his flits 0 plin in Is supported up ported by good Nide liep this season timothy will mill bo oed libei on mean alle maille upon this as well its as several other int n tonal foists NN where it e re the looses floell fi om this plant tire are ery ry soil sell cus the of fences to keep tho the th o bittle off of the mot most dinge oils ious anieas la Is being pushed liv bv the foiest fir vice and will mill be contin lied as fast as funds it HP fol foi the P ani pose mi I 1 C thomas of crawford Craw cr awford foid col caiado ii ado made in in feed in tho some 5 oars ago to determine if possible just want pait of the plant contained ille polso noi N dearling steel was fol feri 11 i large quant liti of the lie leies ditl no do injurious iii A fe few m dag in s pilot the sime anim antiel il w m is fed a i of ill the roots and within ten tell li ours it was doid thus justi justifying fOng the he that the poisonous mattei was contained in ili the root |
