. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. d sheep are poisoned annually by eating the leaves andtops of this shrub. On Nov. 13, 1918, the writer was taken by Dr. to see a herd of heifers on the Percival Roberts farm at Narberth, 94 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY Penna., which had been poisoned by eating the leaves of this plant grow-ing in a piece of woodland into which the heifers had been turned to browseand which was usually closed to the feeding of cattle. All of the heifersin the herd were poisoned, bu
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. d sheep are poisoned annually by eating the leaves andtops of this shrub. On Nov. 13, 1918, the writer was taken by Dr. to see a herd of heifers on the Percival Roberts farm at Narberth, 94 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY Penna., which had been poisoned by eating the leaves of this plant grow-ing in a piece of woodland into which the heifers had been turned to browseand which was usually closed to the feeding of cattle. All of the heifersin the herd were poisoned, but when the writer visited it, all of the ani-mals, but two, had partly recovered through the care of the veterinarianin charge. Dr. D. S. Deubler. The two heifers, which were still sufferingfrom the poison walked about with unsteady gait, they hung their headslow and showed a general lack of activity with considerable frothing atthe mouth. All the animals of this herd recovered. Another case was of a number of educated or trained goats exhibitedduring Christmas week in the Philadelpliia Dime Museum, the stage of. Pic. 38.—Fruiting branch of laurel (Kalmia lalifoUa) collected at Mays Landing, N. January 2, 1920. which was decorated with festoons of laurel leaves. Between the per-formances the goats roamed over the stage and behind the scenes partakmgveiy freely of the attractive, green laurel fohage. Dr. C. J. Marshall,then out-surgeon of the Veterinary Hospital of the University of Pennsyl-vania, was called on the evening of December 24, 1894 to see the of them died in the Veterinary Hospital from the effects of the laurelpoison. Horses have died from eating the leaves, and in May 1895, amonkey was killed at the National Zoological Park at Washington, D. )y eating a few flowers and leaves offered to it by a visitor. The honeymade from the flowers of the mountain-laurel by bees is said to be poison-ous. Cases of poisoning may be expected, therefore, from time
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