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Show LUPINES KILL SHEEP IN SUMMER S:ilt I.iiko Cily. The principal muso of the losses of slieep Ci-oin poisonous plnnts in lute summer nre plants known ns lupines whieh jo under un-der :i nuinln'f of popular mimes, perhaps per-haps more commonly calleil, in the' west, blue heuns. The lupines ;row in masses on many of our mountain ranges and are particularly dangerous, at the time when the pods are formed. Sheep may frruze upon lupines iit the early part of the season wilh no harm, although there are occasional losses from eating lupine leaves. Whenever, however, sheep eat any considerable iuantity of the pods, serious results mn.v follow. There have been many case where from one to five or six hundred slice) have been lost at mm time. Especial care should be taken by sheepmen, that, during the season when the lupines is in pod, the animals ani-mals should not f;raze upon lupine patches nt times when they are very hunM'ry. Losses sometimes occur after aft-er sheep have been shipped by railroad rail-road and are turned loose, in a half famished condition, upon this plant. Occasionally also in the late fall losses occur wiien the sheep feed upon the dry pods. If herders tan be taught to recognize the plant, and handle the bands with care, the losses from lupines may Ixv very largely reduced, if not entirely done away with. In a year when it is all important that our meat supply should be conserved in the most complete com-plete manner possible, especial care-should care-should be taken to see that there are-no are-no losses from these plants. An extended bulletin on the subject of lupines has been published by tlie-U. tlie-U. S. Department of Agriculture in. which are descriptions of the plant, and symptoms produced in animals. This publication, Lulletin No. 405 of the U. S. Department of Agriculture',, can be obtained by a request to the U. S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. |