Show gy A RAVAGES OF LOCO WEED prove conclusively stockmen Stoc kmen were right in ascribing poisonous properties to plant it was evident that the clr st thing to do in the field experiment was to prove whether the loco weeds did or did not produce the disease that there was some disease causing loss there was no question the pictures show some 0 the animals at different stages of the investigation horek and cattle were furnished by the col orado experiment station which cooperated in the work and at a later stage in the investigation another cooperative experiment with the ha experiment station ft as carried on in western nebraska writes C dwight in american review ol 01 reviews similar pieces of land were selected one was freed of the loco and in the other the loco which was there in an abundant crop wai left standing the stock was divided and part pastured on the loco pas ture and part on the loco free pas ture other animals were fed in the corrals purple and white loco which were cut for the purpose the results of these experiments proved very interesting the animals in the loco pasture ate freely othe weed their coats became smoother and they gained rapidly in flesh ev pointed toward the probability of the non poisonous character ot the plant this opinion was strength ened by the failure to find in the washington laboratory any evidence of after some weeks of feeding however it was noticed somewhat sud denly that one or two of the cattle stumbled as they walked A series of symptoms followed rapidly upon those first noticed and in a short time our animals began to adte before tho end of the season nearly all the ant mala to which had been fed any con sid erable amount of loco were dead while those that were kept in loco tree pasture remained perfectly well the first seasons work proved conclusively that the stockmen stoc kmen were right in ascribing poisonous prope ties to the loco plants loco would kill and the manner of death showed those symptoms which the stockmen stoc kmen claimed to be characteristic of lo 10 coed animals further work in washington laboratories was confirmatory of the field work and the alon was complete of tho poisonous character of the loco weeds |