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 
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. 
The Plants 
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 COMnects 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 
