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Show LORIES KILL SHEEPHHHEB cnns!wrIuk C,lrTht Principal ! "se of the losses of sheep from ' "-"nous phuus in late summon are plants known as lupines which go un--ler a number of popular names, per-""I'S per-""I'S more commonly called, in the vcst, blue beans. The lupines grow in masses on many of our mountain ranges and are particularly dangerous "t the time when the pods are formed Sheep may graze upon lupines in the early part of the season with no harm, although there are occasional losses from eating lupine leaves. -Whenever, however, sheep eat any considerable quantity of the pods, serious results may tollow. There have been many case where from one to five or six hundred sheep have been lost at one time. Especial care should be taken by sheepmen, that, during the season when the lupines is in pod, the animals ani-mals should not graze upon lupine patches at times when they are very hungry. 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 when the sheep feed upon the dry pods. If herders can be taught to recognize the plant, and handle the bands with care, the losses from lupines may be 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 be taken to see that there are no losses from these plants. An extended bulletin on the subject of lupines has been published by the U. S. Department of Agriculture in which are descriptions of the plant and symptoms produced in animals. This publication, Bulletin ,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. |