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within payable cartage of the Great Southern Railway Line having 
been cut out. The “quantity of bark exported has fallen off from 
318,315 ewts. in 1905 to 226,399 cwts. in 1908. 
The truck loads of Mallet Bark at so many stations on the Great 
Southern Railway are a feature which serves to impress the magni- 
tude of the industry on the memor 
In Western Australian commerce ,theke are two recognised kinds 
of Mallet Bark, viz. :— 
(a.) Brown Mallet (commercially the more valuable). 
(b.) White Mallet 
There is a “ Spotted Mallet,” of which only five tons have been 
handled by a large sa especially interested in this trade (Messrs. 
Henry Wills & Co. f Albany), and this kind may be dismissed 
from notice for the present. 
Stained inferior pieces known as Black Mallet are sometimes — 
disposed of under a different brand and name. Sometimes “ White 
Gum” bark (£. redunca and other pre) is mixed by the 
strippers as an adulterant or unintentional 
The pieces or strips are sent in by strippers in lengths of about 
3 feet, and commonly 6 inches wide. 
Brown Mallet.—This is the better variety and usually contains 
exudations of a brownish friable kino, which is quite evident to the 
eye, and a fracture discloses such. Externally it is whitish (brown 
stained) with greyish blotches. It would be dase by bushmen as 
a “ White Gum.” 
I studied the Brown Mallet irees in the bush in several pala 
and peg are notes made by me on the spot in two of the 
Narrogin.—Erect in habit, both as regards trunk and Vewiline 
Flat-topped liked a broom or brush. 
Grows on rises or ridges, not on swamps or ape ; therefore only 
in patches and not in large rime areas. ws on ironstone 
gravel and not on alluvial. Mr. J. H. Gregory (the eg District 
Forester) has often seen Mallet 2 ft. 6 ins, in diameter. He has 
seen 10 to 15 bundles of bark ae one tree, the Weight of bark 
being usually 50-70 lbs. per bundle d 
It may attain a diameter of ane ‘feet, but trees of such size. 
have been destroyed in accessible places. It pie a dense almost. 
impenetrable thicket of young saplings, and it seems to me that it 
would handsomely pay to thin out such —. ‘scientifically. 
2. Near the Kalagan River bridge, Albany, Porongorups, to 
Stirling Range (near a sandstone cliff) we came across some allets 
which were being stripped for their bark. ‘The trees are small, say 
9 inches to 1 foot (I am informed there were some 18 inches). Bark 
perfectly smooth, dark and glossy. Underneath the bark is a layer 
of kino uniformly Getriboied: This is the Brown Mallet. 
White Mallet——Through the kindness of Messrs. Wills & Co., 
I obtained commercial samples of the White Mallet. This bark 
has a pinkish fracture and little or no kino. It is a “ cleaner” 
bark than the Brown Mallet; that is to say, a white, smooth bark 
with few stains of any kind, 
