. Practical botany. Botany. WEEDS 471 and then transfers itself to any neighlx)ring potato [)lants that are not liroterteil ],y applications of Paris green or of other poisons. A familiar example of a pasture ^veed poisonous tn the lower animals is the common sheep laurel or lambkill.^ There are a good many plants, such as some members of the Night- shade family, hemp, and some leguminous species,^ which may produce symp- toms both of intoxication and of poisoning in horses, sheep, and cattle. Of the plants which give a bad taste to milk, field garlic or wild onion^ is the most important. The
. Practical botany. Botany. WEEDS 471 and then transfers itself to any neighlx)ring potato [)lants that are not liroterteil ],y applications of Paris green or of other poisons. A familiar example of a pasture ^veed poisonous tn the lower animals is the common sheep laurel or lambkill.^ There are a good many plants, such as some members of the Night- shade family, hemp, and some leguminous species,^ which may produce symp- toms both of intoxication and of poisoning in horses, sheep, and cattle. Of the plants which give a bad taste to milk, field garlic or wild onion^ is the most important. The bulblets of this weed may also impart an onion flavor to flour made from wheat grown in fields infested -n'ith it. As an instance of the extent to -which weed seeds may contaminate commercial samples of useful seeds, the case of red clover may be cited. Inferior lots of clover seed may contain as much as 67 per cent of impurities, largely other seeds,* and the a\-erage of S4 samples examined at the Iowa station was 5 per cent, or 3 pounds to the bushel. In the red and mammoth clo^'er seed examined at a single. Fig. 354. Hortje nettle (Solarium carolinense) A Tery troublesome weed of the Nightshade family, which has spread extensively from the southeastern states. One half natural size 1 Kalmin angustifolia. - The .so-called "loco weeds," mostly species of Astragalus and Aragallus. ' Allium. * See Bulletin 31, Iowa Agr. Coll. Lxp. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Bergen, Joseph Y. (Joseph Young), 1851-1917; Caldwell, Otis William, 1869- joint author. Boston, New York [etc. ] Ginn and company
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