Show SERIOUS STOCK roi somma x PLANT A very serious stock poisoning aning plant poison or whorled milkweed is rapidly gaining a foothold in iron county small patches ot of this very poison weed are found in many places h in the southern part of the county and several patches arg are reported in the central part in the cedar bottoms vicinity many livestock are killed each year from eating this plant the cost to the stock grower each year Is if enor enormous As an example of what his plant may do in a single day the writer saw 35 head of sheep dead and dying in one dry pasture in one day this kind of loss is comi mon in other places 50 to head of sheep have died in a very short time here and there one hears bears of 5 to 10 head of sheep or an mccaa nal horse or cow being killed by eating milkweed A common occur ence on the open range to see bee a good many bleached skeletons in a place and upon investigation finds a small patch of milkweed upon which hungry livestock have fed and as a consequence ue have died in some of our neighboring counties this weed has become so serious that the stockmen stoc kmen are selling out because their losses are so heavy and because they are in constant fear ear of 0 accidentally running a herd ot of sheep over a patch 0 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 the nature of the seed it produces they are capable of blowing with the wind tor for great distances the plant is exceptionally hardy and will grow in almost any situation of drouth or moisture it is a perennial and so growing from the same root each year Is exceptionally harato eradicate an effort has been made by the county tor for the past few years to control the spread ot of this plant all patches of the plant in as tar far as they are known have been pulled to prevent seeding and to some extent this has reduced the size of some ot of the patches this work of eradication is to be done this year under the direction of the agricultural inspector and his assistants the greater part of the trouble experienced is snowing where to find all the ot of the weed people who know of this weed in any locality should ze ae willing and anxious to report the iame so go that it may be properly cared tor for to prevent its spread every stockman should acquaint himself with this very destructive weed and insider son sider it his duty to report the ame to the proper persons it the patch be a email one do not pass it by but stop and pull it and by so BO dong done save your livestock or possibly neighbors stockmen Stoc kmen lets keep this weed under control before its too late t john E blazzard district agricultural inspector 1 PT |