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On Salt-bush and Native Fodder Plants of New South 
Wales 
By W. A. Dixoy, F.I.C., F.C.8., Technical College, School of 
Arts, Sydney. 
[Read before the Royal Society of N.S.W., 3 November, 1880.] 
In all civilized countries much attention has been directed to the 
composition and value of the various fodder plants grown in them, 
chemical methods. That this should be so is not surprising, 
4 ag the important réle which the cultivation of these plants 
Steater part of the manure required to bring the vegetable food of 
man to perfection. It is, however, somewhat surprising that in 
this country no attention whatever has, as far as I can learn, been 
directed to the native plants, and the more so when perhaps 
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what those of to- ldo. It seems reasonable to suppose 
in our peculiar climate, subject to periods of continued 
drought, and having i many cases soil saline, that the 
be more reliable than others devel p 
oe and climate. That many introduced plants do flourish here and 
stow with a vigour never seen in their native habitats is undoubted, 
growth may not be the means of their own destruction. : 
Tt has therefore been thought of sufficient interest to induce 
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now lay the results before u, accompanying them with a table 
poring the average composition of other fodders of good qu 
omparison. the European plants which are used for 
greatly in composition at different periods of their 
Srowth, and I have selected analyses of hay or straw made of the 
Plant at the period of flowering, when they are at their best. The 
