Poison in Phar Lap’s System
EVIDENTLY CAME BROM TREE SPRAY. United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph. —Copyright. SAN FRANCISCO Anril 13. Mr W. W. Vincent, chief Food and Drug Administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture, who made tho examination, announces that a poison commonly used as a tree spray was present in- the organs of Phar Lap. The source of tho poison is not definitely established. Mr Vincent said it resembled that used in tree spray and might have come from grass coated with -spray used on the oak trees on Menlo Park Ranch, where Phar Lap died.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6834, 15 April 1932, Page 8
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