CATTLE AND POISON.
The experience of Walter Larden on the pampas 'of Argentina • indicate that ; the avoidance of poisonous herbs is not, as has sometimes . been .thought, an instinct born in animals. . There is a poisonous weed oil; the pampas, called romerilla, i which the native-born cattle and sheep have learned to.avoid, but imported cattle and horses, have to be" taught not to eat it» ' That is done by tying them fast and .then burn- i ing 1 heaps of the' weed to the' windward oi them. The smell of 'the smoke ' breeds in them: so great a dislike that .they do not touch the green weed afterwards.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 14984, 4 May 1912, Page 5 (Supplement)
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