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yarrow, and others, according to the locality. 

 The Experiment Station at Wooster sends out 

 bulletins of warning against these pests which 

 should be carefully heeded. 



N'ot infrequently mention is made in the 

 newspapers of cases of sickness and death re- 

 sulting from the use of buckwheat flour. As 

 buckwheat — Fagopyrum — ^is a valuable and nu- 

 tritious grain, the cause of the poisonous ef- 

 fects must be looked for in some admixture 

 with a foreign substance. 



Eipening about the sam'e time of year asi 

 the buckwheat is a plant which may escape the 

 observation of the farmer who is riot posted 

 in regard to its dangerous qualities. This is 

 Lobelia inflata, commonly known 'ajs Indian To- 

 bacco. It is a simple, harmless-looking weed, 

 from six to eighteen inches high, with pale 

 blue or lavender flowers, the calyx of which be- 

 comes swollen with the numerous seeds which 

 it produces, small, shining, black bodies, the 

 effect of which, taken internally, is to produce 

 nausea and death. 



Farmers and those reaping the field of buck- 

 wheat should be on the lookout for this dan- 

 gerous enemy of human life. Special instruc- 

 tion in regard to it should be given in schools 

 and agricultural classes. 



