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I have found that by varying the Eucalyptus from Gum to Box, or vice versa, 
and feeding alternately on these, say two or three days on each, that stock in times of 
drought do best. Any of the Box species will be eaten by cattle or sheep. Red Gum 
(E. rostrata) is also favoured, also Sugar Gum. There have been numerous inquiries 
for Sugar Gum from the Acclimatisation Area since the late drought. The Ifonbarks 
are not so favoured by stock, although when starving they will nibble at same. I 
consider that all holders should preserve a quantity of Box of any species on their 
holdings, if such is available, for drought purposes. 
A. R. SAMUEL, District Forester. 
Sugar Gum is E. cladocalyx from South Australia. 
Ironbarks are E. crebra and E. siderophloia principally. 
Forest Office, Dunedoo. 
I have to report that the most favoured Eucalypt for stock in this district is 
what is known as the Coolabah, also the White Box. In drought time in this district 
stock are eating all classes of Eucalyptus leaves, but without some change of grasses 
or other foodstuff every second or third day, the stock will do no good, as they cannot 
digest the leaves alone. 
C. H. GARDNER, Forest Guard. 
E. microtheca (Coolabah); E. hemiphloia var. albens (White Box). 
327 Peg, Mundooran. 
My- own experience has been mostly with cattle, extending over twenty-five 
years. I have found the broad-leaved Ironbark or Silver-leaved Ironbark in the 
Narrabri and Moree districts will be readily eaten by cattle. I have at different times 
fed my bullocks on Silver-leaved Ironbark for weeks at a time with nothing else te eat 
and worked them, and they held their own on it, but they were always in good condition 
when I started to feed them on scrub. They like it best when fallen a couple of days. 
Some trees they will eat more readily than others. I have often noticed them clean 
one tree up and not leave a leaf, while others they would hardly touch. I have examined 
the trees and chewed the leaves myself, but could find no difference. When clover 
and other herbage was plentiful, I have seen bullocks eat green Coolabah leaves, and 
always made it a rule afterwards to lop a few bushes which, when they eat them, they 
never blew up so much. Bibble Box or White Box as it is sometimes called, I have 
fed to sheep to fill them up when fed on corn or wheat. They eat it readily. I have 
seen sheep kept on it alone for over three weeks, and they seemed to do all right. 
ROBT. WALL, 
Overseer, Sleeper-cutters' Training Camp. 
E. populifolia is Bibble Box. To call it White Box, the name usually applied 
to E. hemiphloia var. albens, is unusual. Perhapa the latter tree is really meant. 
!', melanophloia (Silver-leaved Ironbark). 
