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THE NYSSA GATE CITY JOURNAL. NYSSA. OREGON. THURSDAY. JUNE 7. 1951
O fficial Seeks
Poisonous Weed
•Jehn E. Davis of the state depart
ment of agriculture’s division of
plant industry is in southeastern
Malheur county this week to search
lands in that section for halogeton
Halogeton is the weed that looks
like a Russian thistle but contains
enough oxalic acid to kill sheep that
eat it in sufficient quantities. It
first appeared in the west near
Wells, Nevada in 1935. Seven years
later it was found in Utah and four
years ago Idaho reported this weed
was found there.
Davis, who has never seen this
weed, met June 6 on the Nevada-
Oregon border with Lee M. Burge
of the Nevada department of agri
culture. To Burge halogeton is an
old story, as he has been with the
Nevada department for years. The
weed has spread rather rapidly in
states where found in recent years.
Davis had no conjectures to offer on
what he would find in this county
after his conference and a brief
field study with the Nevada official.
The weed he’s looking for has been
described by the Utah exD erim ent
station in this manner; “It is closely
related to the Russian thistle and
similar in appearance. Halogeton
is'branched from the base. The
stems often are tinged with red or
purple and a great deal of color
varieties may be found. Leaves are
round in cross sections, fleshy and
tipped with a delicate spine.
“Numerous seeds and winged
bracts enclosing them often form
a solid mass from the ground to the
tips of each branch so that the
fleshy leaves are entirely hidden
from view”.
This weed Is an annual. It grows
only in bare soil. Is generally found
along roadside ditches, on sheep bed
grounds and on overgrazed ranges,
especially in alkali soils.
The bulletin reports that the plant
is unpalatable in the growing stage
so that animals eat it only when
other food is short. Sheep seem to
eat it mostly when trailing Animal
losses are mostly sheep, though cat
tle have been known to eat it.
The only apparent symptom of
halogeton poisoning is difficult
breathing. Usually death comes
quite soon to sheep poisoned by this
weed. A report from Idaho tells a-
bout the loss of 750 sheep overnight
as a result of eating this weed.
A. B. Black, also of the depart-
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