Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-06-12 | Page 26 | The Crazy Weed and the Buffalo

The Crazy Weed and the Buffalo. When I was in Montana last year I heard of a weed called the loco i eed (Astragalus Hornii) that made- horses crazy If they ate it. In a magazine article ar-ticle published since I wondered if the buffalo had learned to avoid this vccd. A Western correspondent now assures me. on what appears to be good au- thorlty, that buffalo do eschew this plant. A ranchman in the Panhandle of Texas has crossed buffalo with polled Angus the ' black cattle" and he has found that an animal with one-sixteenth buffalo blood will not touch the loco weed. If this is a fact, it t a vtrj Interesting one. It shows how dlfcrhjj inatlng wild creatures become in iS; course of ages, and how this wijjJca becomco Instinctive. John BnrroiT 6 Outing. Ti