Show WHORLED MILKWEED IS VERY POISONOUS Plant Is Especially Dangerous to Trail Sheep Over I Cattle Should Not Be Given ilven Opportunity to Eat Any Considerable Amount of W Weed Weed Horses Horses d-Horses Horses Not Likely to Eat It Stockmen should learn to recognize and avoid the whorled It II Is Isa isa a plant very poisonous to cattle horses and sheep which grows at abundantly in certain sections of ot southwestern Colorado Colerado Colorado Colo Cole rado southern Utah and the northern counties of Arizona and New Mexico according to the United States department department depart depart- ment meat c cf agriculture which has has has' made madean an investigation of ot the effects of this plant on stock Herd should not be the opportunity to eat any considerable considerable con con- quantity of this plant It ItIs ItIs Itis Is especially dangerous to trail sheep over a whorled milkweed whorled milkweed area or to toed toted ted ed them down In the immediate neighborhood The whorled milkweed is a foothill plant not being found above an altitude altitude alti alti- tude of feet and sometimes grows with great luxuriance about ditches and In abandoned fields As small a quantity as 2 ounces of the green plant will kill a sheep and 2 21 pounds may kill a two year two year old steer Horses are not likely to eat ent Jt It but if It they do they are are- areas arens as ns easily poisoned as us sh ep Frequent cases of ot poisoning occur when animals are confined to areas where the plant grows find nd have little else to eat and under such circumstances circum dream stances stance heavy losses result Many animals ani ant mals also have been killed by eating hay containing the plant dried If It they have ha consumed a sufficient quantity quantity quantity quan quan- to be affected they usually die No remedy that will prevent death In such cases has been found The whorled milkweed Is exceedingly exceedingly exceed exceedingly difficult to eradicate but by cutting cutting cut cut- ting it down before the heads are arc formed much can be accomplished In pastures and along trails Ordinarily it stands standa from one to three feet teet Jn n height Persons Interested fn tn securing more more information regarding this menace to live stock and illustrations by which it can cm be easily identified should write the United States department of ot agrIculture agriculture agriculture agri agrI- culture p. p C C. for a department de do- nt bulletin called The Whorled Milkweed |