CONTRIBUTIONS TO WESTERN BOTANY No. 17 9 
There are some twenty-six experimental stations in Texas devoted to 
the work of stock betterment and protection and agricultural experimenta- 
tion. 
The next day I also went with the veterinary to a ranch near Rock 
Springs where a number of valuable goats had died from weed poisoning. 
As a result of all these examinations, I came to certain definite con- 
ninety percent of the cases the range is so overstocked that the grass is eaten 
wn to the roots all the time. That is, the range is sheeped out. This 
cause normal s will not eat them. In fact wherever stock refuse to eat 
any plant it is sufficiently evident that the plant is poisonous e 
question put to as What must be done to prevent stock poisoning? My 
the key to stock-poisoning throughout the West. It is clearly criminal for 
anyone to put stock on ranges where there is no feed for them, and a few 
years in jail will do these men more good than any amount of argument. 
tock. hen I was just west of Fort Davis, Texas, I passed a beautiful 
ranch where the grass was knee-high and the cattle rolling-fat. It so hap- 
pened that I saw large patches of Loco poison along the road and got out 
to collect some. While I was at it the owner came along with his boy and 
wanted to know who and what I was. I said I congratulate you on being 
I meant it. Well I said your ranch is not sheeped out, and your cattle are 
in fine condition. So we became fast friends on the spot. He explained 
