. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. STOCK-KILLING PLANTS 5 of peculiar appearance, stating that it had been taken from the stomach ofthe horse belonging to Joseph W. Messick of Milford, Del., which hadbeen eating crimson clover, and the death of which was ascribed to theball formed from the branched hairs and fibers of the calyces of the crim-son clover flowers (Fig. i). Another man, Mr. Alexander Ryan, a fewdays before the above report had been filed, had lost a horse from whichtwo similar balls had been taken.
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. STOCK-KILLING PLANTS 5 of peculiar appearance, stating that it had been taken from the stomach ofthe horse belonging to Joseph W. Messick of Milford, Del., which hadbeen eating crimson clover, and the death of which was ascribed to theball formed from the branched hairs and fibers of the calyces of the crim-son clover flowers (Fig. i). Another man, Mr. Alexander Ryan, a fewdays before the above report had been filed, had lost a horse from whichtwo similar balls had been taken. Later another letter from an entirely. Fig. 2.—Crimson-clover hair balls taken from horses which had died from thepresence of these masses in the alimentary tracts. The larger one is the largest of sixtaken from a horse which had been fed on crimson-clover hay for 12 years before hisdeath. Horses have died within a few months after commencing to eat crimson smaller hair ball is as large as a regulation baseball. {After Weslgate. J. M.: Crim-son clover: Utilization. Partners Bulletin, 579, 1914, p. 6.) different locality, Kellar, Va., was received by the Department written byB. W. Mears & Son accompanied by a ball taken from the horse imme-diately after death. The statement was made that the horse had workedas usual without any signs of disease up to the time of its fatal illness whichlasted five hours with sharp pain before death. Another ball, similar tothat taken from the stomach, was found in the large intestine. Severalother horses in the vicinity had died the preceding week, all apparently 6 PASTORAL
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