In 1921, ranchers were dismayed at the sudden onset of lossage in their
herds due to a strange condition: the animals bled to death. Small cuts
failed to heal. The roughage cows eat will scratch their digestive systems,
but unlike the normal case where such scratches are minor and readily heal,
these scratches failed to heal and the animals died from internal
hemorrhaging. What seemed odd was that the animals were being fed hay from
fields that appeared not dissimilar from that of previous years. No sudden
invasive plants of a poisonous nature had been found.
A researcher by the name of Karl Paul Link, working under the aegis of the
Wisconsin Alumni Research Fund (WARF), did a careful analysis of the
ensilage from ranches that suffered losses and those that did not. He
discovered that a chemical, dicoumorin, found in the ensilage of
sweetclover hay from those ranches suffering the losses, was a powerful
anticoagulant. Dicoumarin is the result of a substance called coumarin,
which is the chemical which gives new-mown hay its characteristic smell,
being subjected to the heat and mold in a silo, and forming a double
molecule. The year of the serious losses had been an unusually warm one
after the ensilage was created. [This information is from Kingsley's book
"Poisonous Plants", which is one of the first serious studies of the
biology of plant toxins].
## Arsenic kills rats and not people, leastways not without a lot of time
and effort, because rats can't throw up.
A Flour and Portland Cement mix works too, for the same reason. Makes
little curly white porcelain art forms after the rat starves and rots away.
Cleaning out crawl space under a fish shop in Alabama..Same thing as
found under 100 year old house in NC.
"What the heck are these things, ole timer?"
"Rat guts, cast in stone" Said he.
Wow Cool!
Ode
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