X DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTUBE BULLETINS bl-15. 



Department Bulletin No. 68. — Pasture and Grain Crops for Hogs in 



THE Pacific Northwest — Continued. Page. 



Management of pastures 1 



Continuous close grazing 2 



Alternating pasturing of equal areas 2 



Pasturing meadow 2 



Grain rations while hogs are on pasture 3 



Rations for hogs of various conditions and market ages 4 



The price of grain 4 



Quality and abundance of pasture 5 



Hogging off crops 5 



Advantages in hogging off crops 6 



Usual grain crops hogged off 6 



Determining the area to be hogged off 9 



The area of grain to hog off at one time 10 



Crops suitable for pasture and hogging off 10 



Crops for western Oregon and western Washington • 11 



Crops for the wheat belt 16 



Crops for the irrigated valleys 25 



Summary 27 



Department Bulletin No. 69. — Cicuta, or Water Hemlock. 



Introduction 1 



Historical summary 1 



The genus Cicuta 4 



Distinction between Cicuta and Conium 4 



Popular names. 5 



Species of Cicuta reported as poisonous 6 



Locality where Cicuta poisoning has occurred 6 



Losses of live stock from Cicuta poisoning in the United States 7 



Uses of Cicuta 7 



The poisonous principle of Cicuta 9 



Experimental work 9 



Feeding Cicuta to sheep in 1910 , 10 



Feeding Cicuta to cattle in 1910 ? 13 



Experimental work in 1911 15 



General conclusions 17 



Symptoms of Cicuta poisoning .^. 17 



Autopsy findings 19 



Toxic dose 20 



Animals poisoned by Cicuta 20 



Water poisoned by Cicuta roots 21 



The part of the plant which is poisonous 21 



Seasons when Cicuta is most poisonous 22 



Remedies for Cicuta poisoning 23 



Summary 24 



Literature cited 24 



Department Bulletin No. 70. — Immunization Tests with Glanders 

 Vaccine. 



Introductory 1 



Previous results with various immunizing agents 2 



Experiments with dried glanders bacilli 4 



Guinea-pig experiments 4 



Experiments on horses 6 



Agglutination and complement-fixation tests 9 



Conclusions 13 



