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Show How Iieo Aetk Loco It often called "craxy wectV from Its direful effect nn cattle or horses w hen they cat It In any quantity. In tho beginning tbo poison Is slow In showing Itself. Tho Qrst sjinptom is usunllyn dull, yliaay look In tho eyes, which gradually grad-ually dllalo and becotno wild nnd staring. If after this tho animal I left to groro on tho herb, the symptom! will becoino moro pronunnccd, tits vision becomes Impaired, and tho victim do clops nn aptitudo for grotiqno antics, somctimea rushing madly nbout. A "lococr horso will balk, back, rear nnd often hurl Itself It-self backward, nnd haa tho greatest objection ob-jection to having lis head touched. Tho last nnd fatal stngo of the dlsoaso Isn gradual wasting nuay of tho mil. mal. Cnttlo born on tho prairies seem lmtlnctltely to mold tbo loco. High grado be.uiU most easily fnll Ictlms to their lortlallty for tho weed. Chambera' Journal. . |