Review of reviews and world's work . eld experiment was toprove whether the locoweeds did or did not pro-duce the disease. Thatthere was some diseasemuch more abundant than the purple loco, causing loss there was no question. The pic-It is easily distinguished from the purple tures show some of the animals at differentloco by its general habit of erectness and its stages of the investigation. Horses and cattleelongated leaflets, which are less hairy than were furnished by the Colorado Experimentthose of the purple loco. Its flowers are more Station, which co-operated in the work, and at a late
Review of reviews and world's work . eld experiment was toprove whether the locoweeds did or did not pro-duce the disease. Thatthere was some diseasemuch more abundant than the purple loco, causing loss there was no question. The pic-It is easily distinguished from the purple tures show some of the animals at differentloco by its general habit of erectness and its stages of the investigation. Horses and cattleelongated leaflets, which are less hairy than were furnished by the Colorado Experimentthose of the purple loco. Its flowers are more Station, which co-operated in the work, and at a later stage in the investigation another co-operative experi-ment with the Ne-braska ExperimentStation was carriedon in western Ne-braska. Two simi-lar pieces of landwere selected; onewas freed of theloco and in theother the loco,which was there inan abundant crop,was left stock was di-vided and part pas-tured on the locopasture and part onthe loco-free pasture ^ ^ i Wltlst.^ Ig|4 f ma\^ P i J ^^^^jI ^^ ^ •J w ^ w ^=5S^ -. FLOWER OF THE WHITE LOCO. WHITE LOCO, OR RATTLE WEED, IN FRUIT. Other animals werefed in the corrals purple and white loco whichwere cut for the purpose. The results of these experiments provedvery interesting. The animals in the locopasture ate freely of the weed, their coats be-came smoother, and they gained rapidly inflesh. Everything pointed toward the prob-ability of the non-poisonous character of theplant. This opinion was strengthened by thefailure to find, in the Washington laboratory, conspicuous and are on the plains commonly white, while in the more elevated regions they are violet or purple. This Aragallus lam- berti is commonly called on the plains the any evidence of poison white loco or the rattle weed. The After some weeks of feeding, however, it latter name is given because after the seeds was noticed, somewhat suddenly, that one or are formed and dried they rattle as the passer- two of the cattle stumbled as they walked. CHECKING
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