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sorts of fodder and Kurrajong and Swamp Oak. I use nothing else only the Forest Oak. I have proved 
beyond all doubt it is far before any. I have never lost any sheep or cattle that I put on it. Those that 
could not stand up I fed on it for some days till they got up themselves without assistance. In 1902 
I fed all my stock for months on this Oak and lost none ; in fact, every short drought I lop it for my stock. 
To prove what I say about this Oak, I would like you to send a man from the Department within the next 
month or so and it can be proved at once. I let my country to starving stock last spring for nine months, 
and sold almost all my cattle. I knew when the drought broke that stock would be a high price, so I bought 
about three months ago 145 head of low condition cattle; having no grass, I put those cattle on the Forest 
Oak. They have improved wonderfully well ; six died before I got them on the Oak, and I have not lost 
one since. I have 97 in one mob ; they average over half-grown cattle. I thin them out about ten or 
twelve of this Oak once a day. Where I feed them to-day they are waiting there till I go the next day. I 
estimate that I have six or seven thousand trees of this Oak. It grows on the poorest land on the place 
and hugs the sandstone measures. Having brought this Oak under your notice I will give you every 
assistance to prove its high value as a fodder tree. By to-morrow's mail I will send you a parcel of 
the different kinds, seeds and blossoms, bark and wood. You can give stock as much as they can eat and 
it will never blow them. Wet Kurrajong will kill cattle. The Oak is right, wet or dry, and stock will 
chase you all over the place when they get a taste of it. We have fed our milking cows on the Oaks for 
months and they milked well. Hoping you will give this oak every consideration. 
This " Forest Oak " so valuable for stock is Casuarina stricla. The usual 
" Forest Oak " of New South Wales is C. tomlosa (see Part XVI of the present work), 
and of very little value as fodder. 
No. 92. Part XXV. See also vols. iii, p. 173; v, p. 190. 
Melia Azedarach L. Var. australasica C. DC. 
THE WHITE CEDAR. 
(Family MELIACE^E.) 
Fruits. See also vol. ii, p. 94. The following telegram from Gilgandra appeared 
in the Sydney newspapers of the 25th June, 1914 : " An infant boy, Gilbert Hitchen, 
has died from poisoning, caused by eating cedar berries." 
This specifically states that the cause of death was poisoning, but very few 
" infants " could eat large, indigestible fruits like those of the White Cedar without 
serious consequences. I trust that medical men will publish full information in all 
cases in which poisoning is attributed to these fruits. They are certainly poisonous 
to pigs, but such animals crunch the hard seeds, which children do not. 
No. 98. Part XXVII. See also vol. iii, p. 173 ; iv, p. 169. 
Eucalyptus macrorrhyncha F.v.M. 
RED STRINGYBARK. 
(Family MYRTACEJS.) 
Bark and Timber. See also vol. iii, p. 119. Following is one of the earliest 
references to the Stringybark of Victoria (1853) : 
In fact, the stringybark is the most useful tree conceivable, for the diggers as well as for squatters, 
Its bark easily peels off, and forms large sheets, which become hard as boards, from half an inch to an inch 
thick, These make sides and roofs of huts. They make also floors for them, ancj for twts. They m 
