Show chokecherry POISONOUS many sheep have died from eating leaves government forest service men will give aid in destroying poisonous plants A number of sheep were recently poisoned by eating chole chokecherry cherry lemes leaves while passing a across pirt part of the manti national forest in utah arid anil though sheep drive driveways aYs ire not strict y part of the national forest range the government his has taken steps to luither losses to the sheep men from this cau cauce e members of the force on the forests foro sats will nill eo co operate with stockmen stoc kmen in cut 1 ting out the thickets of chokecherry chok echerri 3 bushes where here they grov most densely thus al allowing loNing trie to be hurried through them and in some cases the driveway v ill be hinged changed so as to abold the thickets altogether when the sheep enter the driveway they are hungry after a long trip over public nigh wais which form almost one continuous lant lam bet between een culli cultivated abed fields they eat the chokecherry choke cherr leaves ravenously though under ordinary conditions they bould v hardly touch them the leaves contain prussic acid and when an examination was aas made of the stomachs of several of the dead sheep and thel the were found filled with ith the leaves the baue of death wis as clearly established stockmen Stoc kmen throughout the west are coming more fully to recognize the benefits of goern go eminent merit co orie operation ration and range control the whole grazing grazina polien is to make the range better and to insure its equitable me Ue aeling Pe restriction is practiced not for its own sike sake but for the good of the range and of the stockmen stoc kmen who depard upon it the range has deteriorated under u ul ue L ard so the he gjein ment I 1 ii making investigations under the direction of F na V coville coille lotan bu eau of agriculture with N ith a view to receding re ceding with inith better belter gross grass again pOl poisonous bonous plants ire are often destruct destructive te to live stolk stock and in this ease case dr C D marsh of the bi bircak reau of plant industry anduar I 1 la cond inting a study to detect poisonous plants and suggest means of eradicating them there are also heavy losses horn flom predatory rv animals but go government rement hunters and trappers are bu reducing the number of mountain lions and timber hohes chich do most of the damage finally finall there K the insignificant prairie dog which h ic h selects the choicest gran gra N lotous for its operations operation strips them to the soil and ploughs up the ground for its burrows burros the have gone after the prairie dog ho however eer and bv the use of effective effee effect tiie ie poison i v ill soon put an end to this rest EN E |