. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. Fig. i:^.—Case 525. Horse showing peculiar gait which is exhibited by an animalwhich has been locoed. After Marsh, C. Dwight: The Loco-weed Disease of the Plains,Bulletin 112, Bureau of Animal Industry, Plate V, Fig. 3, June 25, 1909.). Fig. 34.—Case 525. Locoed horse rearing when suddenly startled by a hat thrownout in front of it, August 23, 1905. This horse was very poor, being little but skin andbones, with rough coat and shaggy mane and tail. {After Marsh, C. Dwight: The L
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. Fig. i:^.—Case 525. Horse showing peculiar gait which is exhibited by an animalwhich has been locoed. After Marsh, C. Dwight: The Loco-weed Disease of the Plains,Bulletin 112, Bureau of Animal Industry, Plate V, Fig. 3, June 25, 1909.). Fig. 34.—Case 525. Locoed horse rearing when suddenly startled by a hat thrownout in front of it, August 23, 1905. This horse was very poor, being little but skin andbones, with rough coat and shaggy mane and tail. {After Marsh, C. Dwight: The Loco-weed Disease of the Plains, Bulletin 112, Bureau of Animal Industry, Plate V, Fig. 4,June 25, 1909.) 78 PASTORAL AND AGRICULTURAL BOTANY the animal stepping high (Fig. 32) in approaching a stone; or a rut in theroad, and shies at imaginary objects (Fig. 34). As the disease progresses,the animal seeks solitude, rearing up if approached. The jaws have astiff motion in eating, or drinking. The animal loses flesh, its coat be-comes rough, it ceases to eat and soon dies. The symptoms of locoed cat-tle are similar to those of locoed horses. There is the same lack of mus-cular control, a violently shaking head, frantic running into locoed animal is almost impossible to drive, as it is likely to run into thedriver, and in the oppos
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