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ARID AGRICULTURE. 



TREATMENT 

 OP 



LARKSPUR 



DEATH CAMA 



WILD 

 PARSNIP 



If the animal is extremely bloated, it should 

 be tapped through the left side, high up, with a 

 trocar, or, in the absence of a trocar, with a jack- 

 knife. It should be pulled around, if necessary, 

 and its head turned uphill. The stockmen claim 

 there is much benefit derived from bleeding the 

 animal from the ear vein or under the tail. 

 Potassium permanganate, twenty grains to a 

 pint of water, poured down the animal's throat, 

 is a chemical antidote and is almost a sure cure. 

 The active poison in the plant is Delphinine, and 

 it kills by depressing the heart's action and the 

 breathing. 



This plant has a bulb and looks somewhat 

 like the wild onion. It grows sparingly in the 

 ravines and sometimes over the western ranges 

 on either side of the Rocky Mountains. It is a 

 very deadly plant, but fortunately grows so 

 sparsely that animals seldom get enough at any 

 one time to kill them. In the case of poison it 

 is usually not more than one or two of a herd 

 that become affected, not like larkspur, where 

 fifty or a hundred may get down at one time. 

 There is no knoAvn cure for Camus poisoning. 



The wild parsnip (Wyoming water hem- 

 lock) is a deadly plant, but fortunately the pois- 

 on is mostly in the roots. The roots pull easily 

 with the plant, and are sometimes eaten with 

 deadly effect. The plant grows along ditch 



