30 BULLETIN 9, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
sea salt. It is, however, not particularly frost hardy and is a tree for 
low, moist situations. 
It has one great advantage for forest management as a timber 
tree, and that is its power of reproduction over large areas from root 
suckers. When a tree is cut down many such suckers spring up, 
even at a distance of from 30 to 40 feet from the parent stem, and 
these eventually make sturdy trees. 
Acacia farnesiana was found at some of the California missions 
when the Americans came from the East and while it is not a large 
tree it should be valuable in California not only for its timber but 
for its perfume. oa has not been sufficiently tested as yet in Cali- 
fornia, but its record in Hawaii poimts to great usefulness #f it can be— 
erown in commercial plantations. 
Nearly all of the hardwood required by the makers of agricultural 
implements, wagons, carriages, railway coaches, street cars, furni- 
ture, and cabinets, or used in the interior finish of houses and boats 
is imported into California and becomes year by year more costly 
and harder to obtain. The eucalypts, because of the difficulties of 
seasoning and working, are not fillmg the bill and the acacias may 
be expected to help out considerably. 
OTHER ECONOMIC USES OF ACACIAS. 
FORAGE. 
The acacias as legumes have value as browse for wild and domestic 
animals. Those which contain a large proportion of tannin are, of 
course, not particularly relished by animals, but since the tannin 
content of the different species varies greatly, there are a number 
which do not have this drawback. In the great African and Asiatic 
deserts the leaves and young sHoots of acacias form the principal 
browse of goats and camels. In Australia certain species are of con- 
siderable value for cattle, sheep, and other live stock. Since some 
of the most useful forage acacias are also valuable for the fixation 
of drifting sands, seacoast thickets of these shrubs have a double 
economic value. 
The Australian “‘scrub,” locally known as ‘‘myall” and ‘‘mulga,” 
consists of some 30 species of acacia, many of which display great 
drought-resisting qualities. The four best forage species, in the 
opinion of Dr. Maiden, are Acacia aneura, A. doratorylon, A. pendula, 
and A. saligna. To these might be added Albizzia lophantha, still 
catalogued by many California nurserymen as an acacia, which is 
particularly well adapted to seacoast conditions. 
Australian cattlemen say that saltbush (Atripler semibaccata) and 
myall make the best beef products on that continent. The best 
