BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL
POISONOUS FODDER PLANT.
The Poison Plants Committee of the Queensland Department of Agriculture and Slock has recently issued a report of its chemical investigation and feeding trials of plants suspected of being poisonous to stock. While most of the plants discussed are found principally in Queensland and northern New South Wales, a few are more widely spread. Among these is birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus Australis), which is common in areas having a high rainfall. A sample of this plant from south-western Queensland was submitted to a test, and it was shown, says the report, to be capable of giving off sufficient prussic acid to poison stock.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1939, Page 3
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107BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 April 1939, Page 3
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