Show SERIOUS STOCK POIS POISONING NING PLANT 0 A el very serious stuck stock poisoning plant poison or whorled milkweed Is la rapidly gaining a footh foothold ld in Iron Count County Small patches of this very velY poison weed are arc found tou In tn many places in the southern part of the county and several patches are reported Inthe Inthe In tn the central part in the Cedar Bottoms Bottoms Bottoms Bot Bot- toms vicinity Many livestock are killed each year from eating this plant The cost t to the stack grower each earh year is enor enor- As an example of what this thU plant may mry do in a single day the writer r saw 35 head of sheep dead I and dying In one dry pasture In one day lay This kind of loss Is common In other places 50 to head of sheep have died In a very short time Hero Here and there one henrs of 5 to 10 hem head of sheep or an occasional horse or cow being killed by eating milkweed A common occurrence on the open range is to see a n good man many blenched bleached skeletons in a place and upon investigation investigation one finds a small patch of milkweed upon upon which hungry livestock livestock livestock live live- stock have fed and as a consequence dle died In some Borne of our neighboring counties this weed has become so 80 serious that stockmen are selling sel out because Because their losses are so heavy and because Because they are arc In I constant fear of running a herd of sheep over a patch of this plant and killing an entire herd at once This weed is so serious in Kane county that a sheep man could easily become a pauper in a day This plant Is rapidly spreading due to tb the nature of the seed which it produces They are capable of being 1 blown with the wind to great dU- dU The plant Is t. exceptionally hardy har har- dy and will grow In almost almot any actuation situation situa tion of drouth or moisture It is I. n a perennial and so growing from the same root each Is year exceptionally hard to eradicate An effort has been made by the county the past last few ye rs to control the spread of ol this plant All patches of the plant In so 80 far as they are known known have been pulled to prevent pre seeding and ond to some extent this has reduced the size alze of some of the patch patch- es Cs This work or eradication is to go gon got t n this year ear under the direction of t th the agricultural Inspector and his hia assist The ants greater part of the trouble experienced d Is fa knowing where to find findall findall findall all of the patches of the weed People who know of this weed In any locality should be willing and anxious to re report report report re- re port the same so that It may be properly properly prop prop- erly cared for to prevent Its spread Every stockman should acquaint himself himself him him- self sell with this very d destructive weed and consider it his duty to report tha the same to the proper p parsons If tha the patch be a n smell one ont do not pass It b by but stop atop and pull It and by so 80 do doIng dowing do w ing save your livestock or l possibly your our neighbors Stockmen lets let's keep bep this weed under control before It Is la too late j JOHN JOlIN i g. g District Agricultural Inspector I |