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District Office, Wagga Wagga. 
Reports received from officers do not convey much information in the above 
respect. The Forest Guard at Narrandera and the Assistant Forester at Corowa both 
agree that sheep, cattle, and horses will eat seedlings and the tender growth of practically 
all Eucalypts. 
J. S. BARRY, District Forester. 
District Office, Forbes. 
I have to report that trees most favoured by stock are E. hemiphloia var. albens 
(Grey or White Box), E. melliodora (Yellow Box), and E. rostrata (Red Gum). 
The Grey Box takes first place in relation to stock feed, and is readily eaten 
when the trees are matured, but when young or in sapling stage it is difficult to induce 
sheep to touch them until the tree has lain on the ground for some days. Further, 
if the tree is burned down, the leaves are more readily eaten than when felled by the axe, 
but the reason for this I have never been able to discover. The leaves of the Yellow 
Box are also fairly readily eaten, but trees must be matured, otherwise stock will not 
touch them unless very hungry. Red Gum is used for feed, but is not so readily eaten 
as the Box, and is not used at all if Box is obtainable. 
H. W. GARLING, District Forester. 
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District Office, Narrabri. 
The tree most favoured for fodder for stock is, of course, the Apple Tree 
(Angophora intermedia), which, though not a Eucalyptus, belongs also to the Myrtacese 
family. Of the Eucalypts themselves, Silver-leaved Ironbark (E. melartopldoia) is 
perhaps the most favoured in such localities where it is obtainable. Next comes White 
Box (E. albens, or E. hemiphloia var. albens). E. microtheca is the main Eucalypt 
fodder tree in the Western districts, where it takes the place of White Box, and is of 
equal value for the purpose of feeding starving stock. 
When hard pushed, stock will try most of the Eucalypts, but they do not favour 
the Red Gums (E. rostrata, tereticornis, dealbata, &c.). Mountain Ironbark (E. Caleyi) 
is fairly good, but its range is limited. Yellow Box (E. melliodora) is the least 
favoured, even starving stock will refuse it. The Stringybarks are also generally left 
alone if other fodder is obtainable. 
In this district there are generally so many shrubs and trees of other than the 
Eucalyptus species that, except for White Box and Silver-leaf Ironbark, their fodder 
value is negligible. 
GORDON BURROW, District Forester. 
District Office, Dubbo. 
From my experience, I find that stock (sheep and cattle) frequently refuse the 
same species of Eucalyptus, whereas two or three weeks later they will eat it greedily. 
I have seen two trees of exactly the same species lopped together side by side and cattle 
refuse one and eat the other this also applies to the Wilga (Geijera parviflora). 
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