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Several sensitive plants grow in the woods on dry or siliceous soils 

 in every part of the State, and are eaten by all kinds of herbivorous ani- 

 mals. The best of these are the Desmanthus brachylobus, the Schrankia 

 uncinata and the Schrankia angustata, the two latter being creeping 

 briars. 



Besides the leguminous plants herein mentioned as furnishing, in 

 highway pastures, sustaining food for domestic animals, beggar's lice 

 (Cynoglossum Morisoni) may be added. This belongs to the borage and 

 not to ihe leguminous family. It grows in fields and woods and the 

 ripened fruit, which consists of convexed-barbed, flat nutlets slightly 

 joined together, is greedily eaten by cattle. These nuts ripen about the 

 time of the first autumnal frosts and are highly nutritious. Cattle often 

 fatten upon them during the latter months of the year. 



For the raising of swine the pasture lands of the mountain districts 

 oflFer unusual advantages, for, besides the nutritious grasses and legumi- 

 nous plants there are succulent and aromatic roots in which these animals 

 delight. There is also an abundance of mast, which supplies food for cat- 

 tle as well as hogs from early fall through the winter until the grasses 

 and forage plants spring up with the warmth of the season. The mast is 

 both bitter and sweet. The bitter mast is composed of the acorns of the 

 oak trees; the sweet mast is composed of the nuts of the beech, hickory, 

 chestnut and walnut trees and hazel bushes. Persimmon, haw, pawpaw, 

 huckleberry, blackberry, dewberry, mulberry, service berry, wild grapes 

 and other fruits and berries are greedily devoured by hogs. Thousands 

 of head of these animals are kept fat throughout the entire year by the 

 food which they get from natural pastures. 



