Show SHOULD AVOID DEADLY LUPINE I Poisonous Poisonous Plant Losses Produced by Scarcity of Forage While some animals occasionally cat poisonous plan plants ts by hy choice holce generally speaking the io losses eR b by poisonous I plants are directly connected with a scarcity of suitable forn forage e. e It can con be bo readily s own that deaths of cattle and sheer sheep from Injurious plants occur occur occur oc oc- oc- oc cur mo most t frequently when there Is a n alack alack lack of or suitable forage Sours Some of or the tho stoc stock ranges during the tho present summer summer sum Rum mer ha have 0 suffered severely from drought The result is that on ninny many of the ranges there Is Is at nt the present tine time n a decided lack of an any suitable forage plants It Is under such conditions conditions conditions con con- that animals are Induced to cat eat Injurious plants sometimes with very cr disastrous results It Is particularly important nt fit this season of the lie year on such ranges cs that hat lie the should han handle their animals In such a manner planner that they should hould not have an nn opportunity to eat cat nn any large lurge quantity of lupines Ian 1 Many of the lie lupines ripen In the late summer summer sum sum- mer and early earl fall fail and many mun cases of poi poisoning sheep eat cat the pods containing the lie seeds which are especially poisonous Sometimes the Sheep are arc poisoned upon the pods after the the- th seeds have been shed All sheep owners owners should Instruct their herders 16 t avoid patches of lupine especially at at times times hues when the sheep cheep may be suffering suffering suffering suf suf- fering from lack of other forage Great Grent numbers of sheep have lu been poI poisoned OIW upon drives when the they have lUl trailed through lupine which Is In the particularly poisonous stage These losses b by lupines can cnn be he largely re reduced If not entirely eliminated b by proper care In iii handling th the tho sheep at nt this season sea sea- son Eton of the year Bulletin 40 of the U. U S. S Department of Agriculture deals In detail with the subject of poisonIng poison poison- In Ing h by lupines alit and ancI should be carefully care care- hilly fully studied b by all aH and if It the suggestions given in that bulletin are arc followed the losses from flom these plants may be greatly lessened In the present shortage or of meat ment ItIs It ItIs ItIs Is the dut duty of all to conserve con con- serve C their n animals in it every possible n way for patriotic l reasons as fiS well weH asfor as asfor asfor for their own selfish interests Loss 1 Losses es cs from poIsonous plants are arc CI very much nuch greater reater than Is necessary and andt an anIt It t is to be bc hoped that the owners of range animals will use every possible means cleans to save their their stock I I |