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District Office, Wyong. 
The leaves of Eucalyptus trees in this district most favoured by stock are Spotted 
Gum, Blue Gum, Blackbutt, and Grey Gum in young stages of growth, and only in 
drought time when grass and other more favoured kinds of forest growth are 
unobtainable. Cattle readily eat the leaves of White and Yellow Box (Eucalyptus 
hemipJdoia and melliodora respectively). 
FRED. G. McPHEBSON, District Forester. 
E. maculata (Spotted Gum) ; E. saligna (Blue Gum) ; E. pilularis (Blackbutt) ; 
E. punctatd (Grey Gum). 
District Office, Taree. 
Cattle and horses do not as a rule eat leaves of the Eucalypts, except in time 
of drought or shortly after rain, and then only to a very limited extent ; they do not 
appear to be particular as to species so long as the shoots are young and tender. 
H. J. LYNE, District Forester. 
District Office, Urunga. 
My experience is that stock do not to any extent eat Eucalyptus leaves, but 
will casually nip off the very early shoots of Spotted Gum. As regards forest growth, 
stock will frequently damage young coppice growth and seedlings, when in a playful or 
fighting mood, by pawing and rooting up the ground with their horns, and knocking the 
young growth about with their heads. 
W. F. BKIGGS, District Forester. 
E. maculata (Spotted Gum). 
District Office, Casino. 
I have to state that from personal observation and inquiries of stockowners 
the only Eucalyptus that stock appear to favour is the Red Gum, which grows on 
generally low-lying country and is regarded here as E. tereticornis. Grey Box (E. 
hemipMoia) has also been mentioned, but there appears to be a good deal of doubt 
in this respect. 
G. E. RUMMERY, District Forester. 
(c) WESTERN DISTRICTS. 
District Office, Deniliquin. 
Cattle will eat the leaves of the matured Sugar. Gum (E. dadocalyxa South 
Australian tree) during the period of drought. 
Sheep will eat the leading shoots of Red Gum (E. rostrata), Grey Box 
(E. famipMoia), and Black Box (E. bicolor) seedlings almost at any time, and during 
a drought will eat the whole of the leaves on a seedling plant. 
N. C. WENTWORTH, Assistant Forester. 
