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- of the State. The shrub resembles the high-bash huckleberry, 

 with th<> Bowers, in regular rows, appealing in June, followed by dry 

 fruit* inste.nl of berries. Many fatal oases of poisoning of young 

 -• sk arc attributed to this Bpecies. A remedy mentioned for this 

 poisoning is warm milk sweetened with molasses, which gives relief 

 through vomiting 



The dog laurel or "branch ivy Walt. I is a 



common heath plant along streams, and shares with its relatives 

 named above in the properties that rentier it poisonous to live stock. 

 It is sometimes called "calf-kill." 



-Another toxic plant of the family is the "stagger- 

 hush" or ••kill-lamh" 1. . frequent in moist land 



throughout the State. 



The Rattle-box. 



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The rattle-box is a small annual plant of the pea family < Legumi- 

 DOSee), and takes its name from the dry pod, an inch long, in which 

 the brown, hard seeds rattle when the legume is shaken. It re- 

 sembles a dwarf, much-branched, -mall-leaved pea plant, and is 

 common in sandy places throughout the State. 



The toxic principle of the crotalaria is unknown, but the plant 

 has a peculiar etTect upon farm animals, causing stupor, loud, heavy 

 breathing, and death after many days. In the prairie States cro- 

 talism is not uncommon, but in New Jersey little is to be feared 

 from it. 



A plant of the same family, that produces a sort of intoxication 

 in animals, is the loco weed . 1 -• Torr. ), but as this 



does not grow in New Jersey, our stockmen may not expect to expe- 

 rience ite peculiar eiTects in their herds. 



Wild Cherry. 



The three kinds of wild cherry common to the State, namely, wild 

 black cherry P choke cherry I' 



md the wild red cher I. abound 



in pi - .jydr-x;yanic; acid, which is produced in nearly all por- 

 ts of the plant, and particularly the leave?, bark - The 

 leaves, of course, are th> frequently eaten by live stock. 

 In a recent bulletin of t: the 



1400003 P- ,[ Wild i »-. .-." M.--r- M r»e ami II 



Bulletin " "J. 



