DEATH OF PHAR LAP IN U.S.
TREE SPRAY POISON IN CARCASE.
By Telegraph—Press Assn.— Copyright.
San Francisco, April 13. Mr. W. W. Vincent, chief food and drug administrator of the United States Department of Agriculture, who lias made an examination, announces that a poison commonly used as a tree spray was present in the organs of Phar Lap. The source of the poison was not definitely established.
Mr. Vincent said it resembled that used in a tree spray and might have come from grass coated with the spray used on oak trees on the Menlo Park ranch, where Phar Lap died.
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Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1932, Page 4
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