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Show Drouth Conditions Bring Cattle Forage Dirth In a drouth year cattle andi sheepmen need to be doubly, aware of the danger of their animals ani-mals eating tao many poisonous plants, cautions Wallace Sjo-blom, Sjo-blom, county extension agent. Excessive oisoning on the range, he points out, is most likely like-ly to happen when there is a shortage of non-poisonous plants on the range because of drouth; or because the available forage supply has been eaten. j Livestock have to pat large I amounts of most poisonous plants before any ill effects result. re-sult. If forage is plentiful they will usually not eat enough of '.lie poisonous plants to do harm, especially since many of these plants are quite unpalatahle. Dr. John F. Vallentine, extension exten-sion range management specialist special-ist with Utah State University, erriphasi.rs that the 'uest way to decrease livestock poisoning by range plants is through good iange and livestock management. manage-ment. Remember that it is much better bet-ter to prevent poisoning than to try to cure the animals after they begin showing poisonous symptoms. Then, Dr. Vallentine says, it's usually too late. |