Show STEMLESS LOCO WEED I Prof L H Pammel of the Iowa Agricultural Agri-cultural College Describes the Plant In many parts of the west this is avery a-very abundant plant I recently passed through several fields of this In the foothills of the Rockies north of Denver Tho meadows were purple with Its blossoms It is known to botanists as Oxytropls lambertll Stem less loco weed grows from six Inches to ono foot high and occurs in tufts with numerous short stems from a hard and thick root stock The plant produces numerous small leaflets The root Is covered with small scales The leaves are silky with silvery hair The flowers are borno In spikes ono or two or even six inches long gen orally densely flowered The flowers are largo resembling those of the rattlebox rat-tlebox or rattloweed often an Inch oven whitish The long purple or plant belongs to tho same family as clover and beans do I went over a range where a man allowed his cattle and horses to pasture pas-ture but the weed evidently did not cause him any trouble and yet tho evidence in many places IB too strong to that the plant is not injurious say made by the Recent Investigations I department of agriculture seem to show beyond doubt that some of these loco weeds lire poisonous only when certain kinds of soil that crowing on tlo fl poisoning is due to the presence Q the constituents found injurious mineral In the plant |