The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1909-10-29
Observation-Disclosures
news OF The farm.
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Poisonous Plants.

Poisonous Plants.
Farmers should faniharize them
selves with poisonous plants, and
use every effort possible to destroy
those that are of dangerous char
acter.
All poisonous plants are not
injurious to all persons, nor to
all forms OF life. For example, take
the action Of poison ivy Upon ami
mails It has no apparent external
effect--horses, mules and goats eat
ing its leaves with impunity. But
on the skins Of majority of per-
sons It acts with varying intensity.
Some people are immune
There are two fungus plants that
greatly resemble mushrooms-they
are known as the fly Amanata and
the death cup The latter can be
distinguished from the common
mushrooms by its white gills and
spores, and by its growing in woods
insead of in meadows. Death cup
is the most poisonous of all the
fleshy fungi. ....
=. American false helebore (known
as itch weed) is poisonous, the seed
being especially poisonous to poul-
try. Horses have been known to
be poisoned by eating the leaves;
yet sheep seem to relish it and eat
, it with apparent impunity. ...
Pokeweed is a we'll known plant
that has many household uses, but
some chemical or mechanical manip-
= ulation seems necessary to prevent
: Ill effect when 1t is eaten. The root
-. and the alcoholic extract Of the
fruit are quite commonly used as a
household remedy for the itch and
other skin diseases and for rheu-
matism.
; Corn cookie is generally known
as simply cookie. Its erect stems
. and SNOWY, violet-red flowers and
c pods full of black, irregularly
II rounded seed are familiar in all
grain growing States. ..r
= Black cherry, known commonly as
y wild cherry, which is sometimes cul.
10 tiyated as an ornamental shade tree
le also has poisonous qualities The
y fruit is rather agreeable, being but
'e slightly bitter and astringent IL
II taste. 1t is also used as bitters
II liquor being poured on the berries
in bottles. Poisoning is frequentl!
- caused by. cattle eating the wilteC
ii leaves from branches thrown care
III lessly within their reach or ignor
L antly offered as food Children oc
e. casionally die from eating the ker
e. nails of the seed or from swallowing
o. the fruit whole.
Is The writer some years ago haC
u quite heavy loss among his younl
III geese from eating shoots of wilt
= cherry trees that sprung up arount
We an old tree that was in an inclosurt
where the geese were kept. AS sool
as the cause was discovered tn
st remaining geese were changed t,
new quarters and there were n,
more deaths. Strange to say, tina
. while these green leaves poisoned
the geese, the general poultry seem
\ ed immune, chickens not only at
the leaves, but picked up the fallel
fruit with apparently no bad effect
Rattlebox, also known as will
pea, is native in low, sandy soil
from the Atlantic westward to Min
nesota and Eastern Kansas. 1t /
common in Connecticut, New Jerse.
and North Carolina The poisonou
constituent is unknown, but it lie
both in the leaves and the seed
Horses and sometimes cattle ar
killed by eating grass or meadow
hay mixed with the plant
Poison oak, also known as Cali
fornia poison sumac, swamp sumaC
thunderwood, ETC., effects the ski
in the same way as poison ivy, an,
cases require the same remedy.
Laurel leaves Commonly used 70
decorative purposes in winter o
the Towering branches are ofte
carelessly thrown into Enclosure
where animals are kept. The olde
cattle are not so frequently kille,
by it. but they are by no mean
immune. Horses and even goat
have died from eating the leaves.
Great laurel is known also as lau
rel (south Of Pennsylvania rose
bay, mountain laurel, rhododendror
big-leaf laurel tPennsylyania) hors
laurel (Pennsylyania), deer tongue
COW plant (vermont), spoon hutcl