Show POISONOUS WEEDS V f I KILL MANY fANY SHEEP Choke Cherry Leaves at Manti ManU and Mysterious Plant on the Uintah Republican Special Service Serle vernal ernI AUg 10 81 Sheep op men throughout the tie country are alarmed it at the number of sheep ell that have havo hl e been poisoned lately latch lI by eating choke choko cher chor- cherry cherry ry y leaves leave leAvel While passing over a driveway across part art of the tho Mantl forest a few days s ll C CaKo iKo aKo man many sheep ate atC time tho leaves lea and a lumber number of them died immediately hen the time sheep enter this driveway they hey are ti hungry after a long march eli ver public hI highways hwa's and arid they thy eat tho the hoko hoke cherry cimei leaves l aves ravenously though h hunder under Inder or ordinary conditions they would touch them Time The leaves lea es con con- lin lain am acid arid and when an aim aton lion wits was made macic of or the stomachs of everal of time the dead deall sheep and ancl they the were verc found foun 1 hued fined with wih tho the leaves time the cause of death was vas clearly established Though hou 1 tho sheep he driveways dri arc are not par art of time the national forest range th the thu government Jo has Imas taken cn stops steps to prevent further urther losses lossos to tho the sheep men from this his cause Members of ot the tho force torce on ho tho forests will operate co wih with time the took men mm-men in cutting out the time thickets of f choke cherry cherr bushes hushes thus thUA allowing the im sheep to bo he hurried through them md nd In sonio eases Cases oses the tho driveways s 's will wille wil wilbe be e C changed ehon ed 50 so as US to avoid tho the thickets thIcket f r o Tree on un use lie thC 1 A AIn In this immediate vicinity there are the very cry few tew choke choku cherry chern thickets and the tho lock stock men hero here declare that they never know now before that the tue leaves loaves of time the bush ush wore were poisonous In the Dr Dry Fork canyon anyon there arc are also a few tew There Theres Therea Is s a poisonous weed however In this which i kills ls sheep and horses horses ho tieS mysterious thing thIns about It is that he the me stock men have never been ben able ableS to o S discover el just what It I IK is ls It I Is more deadly In the thc early carly earl spring or Just afta aft aft- af- af er r a rain when the lie ground Is soft sot TIme The older Ider slice do co not eat ent It I as ea eagerly elI lS s S do lIo time the youn younger er ones That Is probably ably bly due to the thc fact that the tue older men lies havo have had their experience and shy of ot It i when they go so out for or ora a meal meal The Thc younger sheep when whon himy hun him gr ry y go so after er e everything thing In sl sight hL This Timis same ame Is la deadly to horses horles as well wen wells wenas as s 1 sheep and and In the years gone one by byman man any horses have been poisoned by It Jims lbs one of or the tho leading sheep raisers of the thc county and who has gh rn n I the time matter mator some stu study r Is of th time the I pinion opinion that the tho root of the tho wry wl d and I Inot not ot it tIme the weed itself contains contain the poIs poIs- on n I and ho he gives Ivell a very vcr plausible rea- rea on n for his conclusion h rime Tho Weed wel he imo heays ays sas ys Is most deadly just after a rain raInor or r In the thc early car spring when the earths earth arthIs Is soft and anti the time sheep in pulling It Il up p get got root and all al InrI This weed whatever It Is has a 1 po- po cular liar ullar effect on th the horses and sheep Thc he me horses become Paralyzed especial especial- lalI lal- lal I y In tho hind parts which drag dm along as s the tho animal tries to move The Thc sheep CC seem to go crazy cry Soon after ting tho the weed It I throws its Is head up In n the tho air atm and anti thou then runs around in arcle a circe until It I drops dead Mr Bennion says sas that since the sheep Lye been feeding whore this weed TOWS row not so many horses have died In n some somo p pasts of thc the Strawberry vaile valey vai- vai le ey y country countr this Isis weed w cd or some other wee med 1 Is so rank ranle and s. s so thick that tho the hoop shoop MOP men dare tiare Iare not allow alow their Hocks to o graze at itt It all al In these places |