FACT NUMBER ONE. 19 



in the moon, the place of the planets, or something beyond 

 the knowledge of created intelligence. But we are now 

 prepared, to say, and to prove what we say," that the loss of 

 the milk arises entirely and exclusively from the Slobber 

 Grass. Yet it is fair to suppose the extent of the loss, as 

 well as the degree of the disease, may be found subject to 

 some slight modifications from other causes. 



We here beg leave to observe that further and more sci- 

 entific experiments in this behalf, are now in progress, the 

 results of which will be made known in due season. 



With respect to the effects of the grass on other animals, 

 it has already been ascertained that it is dangerous to the 

 goose and fatal to the gosling. It is the poison Pally W r oc> 

 which has so often swept off many an entire brood of these 

 web-footed younglings. This grass, to the goslings, is a 

 powerful physic; it soon turns the bill, the legs, and the feet, 

 a pale ash color, and in a few hours, fairly scowers the 

 fowl out of the world. This was the case with some ten or 

 twelve, upon which experiments were made in 1840. They 

 were placed where this grass flourished richly, and shut out 

 the growth of all other kinds of feed, and no one of them 

 survived the third day. 



Other experiments satisfactorily proved that the hog, 

 probably the least dainty of all the four-legged tribe, shuns 

 this grass instinctively, as if it were really known to be a 

 certain death-dose. He will famish with hunger rather than 

 taste either root or branch of it ; though by breaking up the 

 ground, he multiplies the growth of it at a wonderful rate. 



The hog is also known to avoid the Tobacco plant very 



