This message is from: "Laurie Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Hi Marsha,
Well, it's sounding more and more like it's tarweed. There is a plant
that looks a lot like you described in the pasture, and it is worse than
usual this year. How come I don't get any black on me from handling it
though?
Thanks for your input!
Laurie
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From: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Sunday, July 25, 1999 5:02 PM
Subject: Re: A mystery
> This message is from: Marsha Jo Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > "Laurie Pittman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Tor has been coming in from the pasture lately with his nose covered
> > in something black and tacky feeling. It is also on the guard hairs
> > under his jaw (looks like the hair has been coated with mascara). I'm
> > also seeing it on the hair above his hooves and his feet look like
> > they have hoof black on them. With a little work it will wash off.
>
> Around here, that'd be "tarweed"---dark green, "hairy" leaves, starts
> as a "candle"-looking thing, that later branches out with lots of
> little yellow flowers. The horses don't eat it, but being greedy
> pigs, they nose it this way and that to get grass growing next to it.
> The first year she was here, my old Nansy mare had her forelock glued
> into a "unicorn horn", she got into so much of it. This has been a
> bad year for it---my neighbor's pinto is black to the knees from it.
> Hint---it comes off nicely with mechanics' waterless hand cleaner.
>
> Marsha Jo Hannah Murphy must have been a horseman--
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] anything that can go wrong, will!
> 30 mi SSE of San Francisco, Calif.
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