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swell up. We have had them do so when we thought there was danger of its proving 
| fatal. They can be given a feed at night, however, and then worked the following 
r morning without danger of any injurious results. 
H. J. Honter, M. D., Palestine; Tex. : 
West of the Colorado River, in this State, the cactus grows in vast forests. I have 
seen cattle and sheep feed on it as it grows wild. Stockmen cut it on the ground, 
singe off the prickles, and cut in small bits for their stock. 
Mr. Alonzo Millett, of Kansas City, Mo.: 
I confine the treatment of my stock in La Salle County, Tex., for their first six 
weeks or two months, in that locality, almost exclusively to the feeding of prickly 
pear, which simple measure has proved highly successful, and is worthy of more gen- 
eral trial as a preventive of Texas fever. There is acactus, called by the Mexicans 
Nopal de Castilliano, which is cultivated in this State for its fruit. This plant grows 
very large and yields enormous crops of fruit, which is sold on the street for food and 
to make beer. The young growth of the cactus is used in early spring by the Mexi- 
cans of western Texas as food. It is cut in small pieces, mixed with flour in a batter, 
and fried. It is said to be as palatable as egg-plant. 
Otanes IF. Wright, Temescal, San Bernardino County, Cal.: 
Many kinds of cactus grow here. The flat kind, or prickly pear, is abundant in 
places. Cattle, goats, and sheep cat it sometimes without any preparation when very 
hungry, but it looks as thongh needles and pins would be a pleasanter and safer diet. 
I have never known, however, any bad results to come from eating it. After boiling 
to soften the thorns it makes good food for milch cows, and is much relished. The 
trouble of boiling prevents its extensive use. 
(Plate 99.) 
“ BUROTIA. 
Eurotia lanata (White Sage). 
It is a perennial, half shrubby plant, growing a foot or two high, with slender, 
woolly twigs, which are abundantly covered with linear sessile leaves an inch and a 
half long, with a velvety surface of a grayish color and with the margin rolled back. 
They are mostly in small fascicles or clusters. The flowers are minute and in small 
clusters in the axils of the leaves, chiefly on the upper part of the stem. The flowers 
are of two kinds, male and female, on separate parts of the stems, or sometimes on 
separate plants. The small fruit is covered with long and close whitish hairs. The- 
plant belongs to the order Chenopodiaceae, or the same order as the common pig-weed. 
The plant known as *“ white sage,” or “ winter fat,” is abundant in 
places through the ee Mountain region from Mexico to British 
America. Prof. S. M. Tracy, who visited portions of Nevada, Arizona, 
under the direction of the Commissioner of Agriculture, states that in 
the more arid districts of Arizona, Nevada, and Utah, fits plant, with 
-grease-wood (Sarcobatus vermiculatus), are the most He y valued plants 
for winter forage. An important fact in regard to the plant is its 
ability to thrive in somewhat alkaline soils. It is employed as a remedy 
for intermittent fevers. (Plate 100.) 
and adjoining territory, in 1837, investigating the native forage plants, | 
