TREE SPRAY POISON
FOUND IN PHAR LAP'S ORGANS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO, April 13. (Received April 14, at 10 a.m.) Mr W. W. Vincent, chief food and drug administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture, who made an examination, announces that poison commonly used as a tree spray was presentt in the organs of Phar Lap. The source of the poison has not been definitely established. Mr Vincent said it resembled that used in tree spraying, and might have come from grass coated with the spray used on oak trees on the Menlo Park ranch where Par Lap died.
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Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 4
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102TREE SPRAY POISON Evening Star, Issue 21077, 14 April 1932, Page 4
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