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a majority of these state that horses, cattle, sheep 

 and goats are fond of it and thrive well on it. Where 

 more palatable plants cannot be grown, the classes of 

 domestic animals named will probably become fond 

 of it, while those fed on more tasty products will eat 

 it very shyly, as do sheep at the Minnesota Univer- 

 sity experiment station. 



On the whole, the Australian saltbush is well 

 worthy of wide and careful experimentation in all 

 the semi-arid country in the United States. Infor- 

 mation on the very best modes of sowing, pasturing, 

 cutting and curing this plant, and of saving the seed, 

 is not as yet forthcoming, at least under American 

 conditions. Such knowledge will have to be gleaned 

 from experiments not yet undertaken. 



