10 March, 1909.] The Algarroho or Car oh Tree. 



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The market value of the beans in 1906 was 2 to 2.15 pesetas per 

 arrobn of 12.78 kilos, equivalent to from ]£6 3s. to jQS t2s. per ton. 



CAROB TREE AT SWAN HILL. 



The fodder value of the beans is high. They contain, according to 

 Baron von Mueller, 66 per cent, of sugar and gum ; this authority in- 

 stances a tree having yielded nearly half a ton of pods in a season. Such 

 a tree must have been grown on rich soil and not on the poor dry land, 

 fit for nothing else, which it is usually the fate of this generous tree to be 

 planted in. 



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