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Show WHERE "LOCO" GROWS Found as Far North as South Dakota and South to Mexico. Weed Is Perennial Plant Usually Growing In Patches on Adobe 8oll May be Eliminated by Use of Fenced Pastures. (Ily C. I'WKJIIT MAKfllf.) Tho word "loco" Is of Spanish origin, orig-in, meaning coiy, and has been popularly popu-larly applied for a long term of years to a dlxeuse common among horses, cattle, and sheep, tbe losses of which have at times been very large, In tho Great Plains region of tbe went. While a largo number of plants have been called by the name "loco weeds," the ones popularly known as Map 8howing Distribution of the . "White Loco" Weed. , the "purple loco" and "white loco" 1 have been considered as the more ' probable cause, of loco polHonlug. The "purple loco" weed Is a er-ennlal er-ennlal plant growing In patches on ! adobe soil, In depressions rather than elevated situations. It rarely grows J In the abundance which Is charac-leriHtic charac-leriHtic of some of the other so-called . "loco plants," but It may cover several acres. This plant Is found as far ' north as South Dakota, as far south . is .Mexico, and as far west as parts . of Arlona. Its eastern limit may b mated as central Kansas and Nebraska Ne-braska and the western part of Ok- r lahoina. In thene regions It grows In ( varying abundance. It blossoms tn Colorado about June 1st. but farther south In New Mexico, for Instance bloHHoms are found early In April. Tbe "white loco" Is found much more widely distributed than the pur. n Tie, extending from the northern to the com hern border of tiie I'nlted Btateg, as far eaut as central Minnesota, Minne-sota, and as far west ax western Utah nd Arizona It grows largely on elevations aud on sandy soil, and In some places In very great abundance. 0 In parts of Colorado at tho time r of blon-nrnliig the latter part of April - large areas are as white as l' b Map of the United 8tates Showing ai the Distribution of the "Purple Loco" Weed. though covered wfth snow, and In tie mote elevated regions of Mon- Una,- Colorado, and Arizona the patches of beautiful (lowers are very ci striking. m The purple loco Is eaten mostly by ft horses, while te white loco Is eaten by cattle and sheep and as well as by u horses, and produces loco disease In all of tl ee animals. r These weeds may be eliminated 1,1 from fenced pastures, and provided the crown of buds Is cut off they will not grow from the roots I In some localities much can be ac- - compllsbed In the way of preventing a loco poisoning by feeding horse, cat- 6 tie. and sheep during periods of short feed and by keeping the stock away from Infested areas. )n |