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Shannon News, 25 June 1929, Page 3

No bird, beast, or creeping thing will touch a castor-oil plant. It seems to be rank poison to all animals. Even a goat will starve before biting off a leaf, and a horse will itniff at it and turn up his upper lip as though it had the most detestable odour on the face of the earth. Locusts will pass it by, though they may ' eat every other green thing in sight. There is hardly another instance in natural history of a plant being so universally detested by the animal world.