48 PASTURE AND RANGE. 



front of the hip bone. Injections of atropin sulphate 

 serve to keep up the heart action. Sugar renders the 

 poison inactive, and large quantities of corn syrup or 

 molasses have been given with benefit. Treatment sim- 

 ilar to that used for prussic acid poisoning in cyanide 

 works is also recommended. One ounce of sodium car- 

 bonate (washing soda), and one-half ounce of copperas, 

 each dissolved in a pint of water, should be kept on hand 

 in separate, tightly corked, glass bottles. The solutions 

 are mixed, and the mixture is administered at once. A 

 quart is sufficient for a cow and one-half pint for a sheep. 

 Sudan Grass, Sweet Sorghum, and Kaffir Corn are 

 varieties that have been found to produce death, and 

 great care should be taken in feeding these 



The Plants , 



as well as the other Sorghums- The Sorg- 

 hums are stout, broad leaved, annual grasses, ranging 

 from three to fifteen feet tall, and have been introduced 

 into this country as forage plants and for their seed. The 

 large flowering panicles of different varieties vary greatly 

 in shape. The spikelets are in pairs at each joint of the 

 slender rachis, and the seeds are large, rounded and 

 polished. 



PORCUPINE OR SPEAR GRASS Stipa spartea Trin. 



Porcupine Grass has seeds which are admirably adapt- 

 ed for burying themselves in the soil. The fruit, where it 

 Harmful connects with the plant, has a sharp barbed 

 Effects point, and above this are numerous hairs point- 

 ing upward. When the seed falls with this 

 point on the ground it is gradually worked into the earth 

 by the movements of the hairs, due to moisture changes. 

 Considerable injury is done to sheep by seeds, which get 



