

THE WEST AUSTRALIAN SETTLER'S GUIDE 

 AND FARMER'S HANDBOOK. tx> 



INTRODUCTION. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



HE third part of the SETTLER'S GUIDE, as will be 

 seen on perusal, deals with fodder and forage 

 plants ; with what may be termed special pro- 

 ducts of the farm ; the native poison plants, and 

 noxious weeds. The information conveyed in 

 the following pages, though written primarily for 

 the new settler \vho contemplates pursuing mixed farming, should 

 not be without interest to the pastoralist. Mr. F. Turner, F.L.S., 

 author of "Australian Grasses" and other works, who, since the death 

 of the much lamented Baron von Mueller, has done a great deal 

 of valuable botanical work for the Bureau of Agriculture, contributes 

 articles on the West Australian grasses and salt bushes, and it is to 

 be hoped his remarks on the conservation of natural grasses will be 

 read with attention, and acted upon. The chapter on fodder and 

 forage plants, exclusive of grasses, is compiled principally from a 

 bulletin by Mr. Jared G. Smith, assistant agrostologist to the United 

 States Department of Agriculture, and issued by the department 

 last year. Mr. Samson-Scrivner, chief of division of agrostology, in 

 introducing the work of his assistant, says : 



