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Show ALL ANIMALS HATE IT. N Living- nird, U.ast ar Inaaol Will Ta.ch a Caator-ott Plaak St. Louis Glob.-Democrat. No sort of bird, beast or creeping thing will touch a castor-oil plant. It seems to be a rank poison to all the animal world. Even a goat will starve before biting off a leaf, and a horse will sniff and turn rp his upper lip as though it has tho most detestable odor on the faco of the earth. Army worms and tho locusts will pass it by, though they may eat every other green thing iu sight, and there is no surer way to drive moles cway from a lawn than to plnnt a few castor beans here and thero. Even the tobacco worm will refuse to be fed on its Laves. There is hardly another instance in natural history of a plant being so universally detested by -Um ui i u al w o r Id . |