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Murray District. 
Varieties of Timber.—Jarrah, red gum, blue gum, banksia, shea- 
oak, paper bark, wild pear tree. 
Method and time of destruction—Jarrah, ring-barking. Red 
gum, Mr. Richardson recommends ring-barking, while the Murray 
Horticultural Society recommends sapping. Blue gum, sheaoak, 
paper bark, wild pear, sapping; banksia, ring-barking. 
August to December for all trees except banksia, which may 
be rung at any time, and paper bark and wild pear, the best period 
for ringing these being returned as doubtful. “The blue gum can 
be killed at any time of the year within 24 hours if it is properly 
sapped,’ according to the Murray Horticultural Society’s return. 
The honorary secretary of this society, in returning the form, 
writes:—“It is the general opinion here that ring-barking and 
saprping tends to toughen the roots of the trees, making the trees 
harder to pull up for some time after, so if you cannot afford to 
wait for two or three years to allow the roots to rot it is a better 
plan to pull up the trees green, as the heavy tops help to bring 
them down. But having waited the time mentioned, the clearing 
of land is made all the easier, as the trees come down willingly.” 
Great SourHern Ratiway District. 
Varieties of Trees—White gum, York gum, jarrah, jam, shea- 
oak, stinkwort, wanna gum, flooded gum, red gum, yate, salmon 
gum, Parker’s gum or morrell, mallett or fluted gum. 
Method and time of destruction—Sapping is recommended 
for all the trees mentioned above with the exception of the salmon 
gum, which our correspondent advises should be ring-barked. York 
gum and flooded gum are liable to throw up suckers, it is said in 
another return. “Sap ringing is desirable in each case for immedi- 
ate results, but ring-harking is preferable if one can afford to wait 
the results for say four years.”_Wagin-Arthur Farmers’ Alliance. 
The Katanning Farmers’ Association advocates destroying the white 
gum and jarrah either by ring-barking or burning around the butts; 
and ring-barking, jam, sheaoak, and manna gum, and sapping 
York and flooded gums. Stinkwood if eut down dies out. York 
gum and jam should be rung when the sap is well up. The bark 
will then fall off every limb and the roots can be burnt right out. 
Flooded gum is very difficult to kill. Firing round the trunk in 
the month of March very often has the desired effect. Two corres- 
pondents state their exj:erience has shown that ring-barking and 
sapy ing may be carried on all the year round with successful results 
if the work is properly performed. The Wagin-Arthur Farmers’ 
Alliance advises that the work should be done during December, 
January and February, while the Katanning Farmers’ Association 
advocates ring-barking or sapping, as the case may be, in Septem- 
