260 WESTERN GRAZING GROUNDS AND FOREST RANGES 



probable that it had much to do with it. In my opinion 

 the westerners were tougher and more able to stand 

 the effects. 



Seven years later there was another bad loco year, 

 but that time it was almost entirely among horses. This 

 was also the case in an outbreak in northern New Mex- 

 ico in 1906, when so many horses died in some districts 

 that the spring round-ups had to be abandoned because 

 "everybody was afoot," as the cowmen put it. 



A Locoed Animal Will Step High Over Anything Even a Rope or a Trail. 



The round-up work could not be taken up until fall, 

 and a new lot of ponies had been shipped in from other 

 ranges where loco had not made its appearance. Yet in 

 spite of the losses among horses practically no cattle 

 died from it that year. 



Loco Symptoms. The symptoms of loco poisoning 

 are so well known that it hardly seems necessary to 

 repeat them here. The animal loses flesh, every hair on 

 its body seems to have turned the wrong way, its eyes 



