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Show Veterinarian Calls Attention To Poison Plants "There is enough poison in one of those little bulbs to kill all five of us." And Dr. J. I. Curtis state veterinarian veter-inarian Livestock Division, Utah State Department of Agriculture, was not talking to a suicide squad. He was merely pointing out to an interested group the deadliness of the rootstock of water hemlock, included in a collection col-lection of poisonous plants found in Utah, samples of which have been mounted and were sent to him this week by Dr. W. T. Huffman, Huff-man, who is in charge of the experiment ex-periment station conducted in Salina canyon by the Bureau of Animal Industry, U. S. Department Depart-ment of Agriculture. There are 18 different plants in the colection, now at the state capital, representing all of the plants found to be poisonous to animals on Utah ranges. Displayed Dis-played o nwhite mountings about 9x16 inches in size, some of the flowering weeds make attractive pictures. The colection will be used for educational purposes, said Dr. Curtis, explaining that the study of such plants is important not only to livestock men but also to veterinarians in diagnosing causes of sickness and death a-mong a-mong animals. Although no statistics sta-tistics are available, it is known that heavy losses of cattle and sheep have at times been traced to the animals' eating poisonous weeds. The danger from these poisonous plants is greatest in over-grazed areas and offers a problem in range .management and weed eradication that demands de-mands the cooperation of livestock live-stock men, officials and the public in general, said Dr. Curtis. The common names of these 18 poisonous plants are: water hernlock, poison or spotted hemlock hem-lock blue locoweed or milk vetch, orange sneezeweed, senecio, coal (2 kinds), larkspur (3 kinds). The samples in the collection i!fr,ntc".r.- ?ity'tnJkhVen or veterinarians to call at the state office. |