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THE subject of plants poisonous to cattle is A of perennial interest to pastoralists, which is receiving in South Africa the scientific attention it needs. The Veterinary Services and Animal Industry Branch of the Department of Agriculture of the Union of South Africa now has a team of workers (Onderstepoort Veterinary Research Station) consisting of Drs. Steyn and Quin, veterinary research officers, Dr. Claude. Rimington, chemist working as a research fellow under the Empire Marketing Board, and Dr. A. C. Leeman, botanist attached to the Division of Plant Industry, Pretoria. The first two numbers of the Onderstepoort Journal, which is to be issued quarterly in continuation of the annual reports of the Station, contain several interesting papers on the subject.
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South African Plants Poisonous to Stock. Nature 133, 972–973 (1934). https://doi.org/10.1038/133972a0
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