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MANUAL OF POISONOUS PLANTS 



has considerable economic importance, since it leaves the animal more or less 

 disfigured by the formation of scars, which materially depreciate his market 

 value. 



"The treatment is comparatively simple. As soon as the disease is recog- 

 nized the animal should be removed from the alsike clover pasture and the 

 wounds subjected to ordinary antiseptic treatment, such as frequent washing 

 with 5 per cent solutions of carbolic acid or creolin, and the application to 

 the ulcers on the skin of drying powders, consisting of boric and tannic acids 

 in equal amounts." 



The so-called clover sickness is supposed to be caused by the clover rust 

 which has been described elsewhere. No doubt some of the trouble arising 

 from feeding clover hay is caused by moulds found on the hay. Dr. W. D. Gil- 

 christ says that he has observed several cases of the kind in this state. The 

 animals showed extreme restlessness followed by coma, bloody discharge 

 from faeces followed by diarrhoea, weakness and debility. Change in fodder 

 caused the trouble to cease. 



I have recently received a similar complaint from Dr. C. J. Scott of Knox- 

 ville, Iowa, three animals having succumbed. 



Trifolium incarnatum L,. Crimson Clover 



A soft pubescent, slightly branched, annual; leaves long petioled jbroad 

 stipules; leaflets nearly sessile, obovate or obcordate cuneate at the base, 



Fig. 306. Crimson Clover (Tri- 

 folium incarnatum). Sometimes 

 produces phytobezoars, which may 

 cause death. (U. S. Dept. Agr.) 



