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Norroam District. 
Varieties of Trees.—York gum, jam, morrell, white gum, gimlet 
wood, salmon gum, manna gum, wattles, sheaoaks, flooded gum. 
Method and time of destruction——-Mr. Gregory advises ringing 
salmon and flooded gums, sheaoak, and jam, and sapping white and 
York gums. This, in the main, is also the advice of the Irishtown 
branch, while Mr. Throssell advises sapping all the trees except the 
jam, which should be rung. Mr. Dempster furnishes an interesting 
note on the destruction of York gum. He writes:—‘All trees 
or serub ean be killed at once by sapping, but the ‘York gum 
throws out shoots for years after the top of the tree has been 
killed, and the cost of keeping under the suckers is more than that 
of ringing in the first instance. I have not yet met anyone who can 
speak positively as to the best time of the year for ringing these 
trees. Occasionally some die, and give no further trouble, but as a 
rule they will not, under the present system. Killing the tree slowly 
by barking, I think, is the most effectual. I have an idea, sup- 
ported by facts, that goes to prove that by killing the tree slowly 
the strength returns to the soil, for the best results I have ever seen 
from ringing have been by the slow process.” 
Toopyay District. 
Varieties of Trees—White gum, jam, York gum, red gum. 
Method and time of destruction—White gum, ring-barking; 
York gum, ring-barking or sapping; jam, sapping; red gum, not 
stated. 
White gum should be destroyed from September to October; 
York gum, February to March; jam, at any time; red gum, not 
stated. The secretary adds in a note: “The branch is of the 
opinion that the red gum should never be interfered with on the 
pastoral lands, as these trees do not ue any harm to the feed and 
are invaluable as shade.” 
Cost per acre of clearing before and after the destruction of 
the timber.—Before, £3; after, £2 10s. to £2 15s. The secretary 
writes as follows:—‘For agricultural purposes, the branch is of the 
opinion that grubbing when the timber is green is preferable to 
killing the timber by ring-barking or sapping before clearing. The 
cost per acre of clearing after ring-barking is from 5s. to 10s. less, 
but this is from two to three years after the ring-barking has been 
done.” 
GERALDTON DISTRICT. 
Varieties of Trees—Wattles, York gum, jam, flooded gum. 
Method and time of destruction—Wattles, York gum, and jam, 
by ring-barking; flooded gum by sapping. 
November or December, when the sap is down, is returned as 
the best time for destroying the trees. 
