Jan. 2, 1908.] AgjHCultural Gazette of N.S.W, 



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Sheep and Saltbushes. 



coolabah experimental farm. 

 Eelding Experiment. — Second Term. 



GEO. L. SUTTON and H. J. KELLY. 



This experiment is a contimuitiou of that carried mit in 1004-5, the details 

 of which were published in the Agviculinval Gazette, July, 1906. The 

 experiment, when originally planned, had for one of its objects the deter- 

 mination of the carr.ying capacity of land planted with saltbush ; but, on the 

 expiration of the first period of twelve months during' which the. experiment 

 was running, it was found that the paddock in which the experiment was 





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Fig. 1. — The paddock as it appeared when the experiment started. 



being conducted had still plenty of saltbush feed in it, though this paddock 

 had carried for the twelve months an average of nearly a sheep and a half 

 per acre. In order, therefore, to obtain the information desired, it was 

 necessary to continue the experiment for a further term, and until the 

 saltbush feed was exliausted. 



The second term of the experiment was therefore entered upon, imme- 

 diately at the conclusion of the first term, 30th November, 1905; and, in 

 addition to testing the carrying capacity of land under '' Old Man " salt- 

 bush, its object was incidentally to observe the effect of an almost exclu- 

 sively saltbush diet for a prolougt'd period upon the wool and stamina of 

 the sheep. 



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