. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. Jan. 2, 1908.] AgjHCultural Gazette of , 49 Sheep and Saltbushes. coolabah experimental farm. Eelding Experiment.—Second Term. GEO. L. SUTTON and H. J. KELLY. This experiment is a contimuitiou of that carried mit in 1004-5, the details of which were published in the Agviculinval Gazette, July, 1906. The experiment, when originally planned, had for one of its objects the deter- mination of the capacity of land planted with saltbush; but, on the expiration of the first period of t
. The agricultural gazette of New South Wales. Agriculture; Agriculture -- Australia New South Wales. Jan. 2, 1908.] AgjHCultural Gazette of , 49 Sheep and Saltbushes. coolabah experimental farm. Eelding Experiment.—Second Term. GEO. L. SUTTON and H. J. KELLY. This experiment is a contimuitiou of that carried mit in 1004-5, the details of which were published in the Agviculinval Gazette, July, 1906. The experiment, when originally planned, had for one of its objects the deter- mination of the capacity of land planted with saltbush; but, on the expiration of the first period of twelve months during' which the. experiment was running, it was found that the paddock in which the experiment was ?'\f^^'y^'. Fig. 1.—The paddock as it appeared when the experiment started. being conducted had still plenty of saltbush feed in it, though this paddock had carried for the twelve months an average of nearly a sheep and a half per acre. In order, therefore, to obtain the information desired, it was necessary to continue the experiment for a further term, and until the saltbush feed was exliausted. The second term of the experiment was therefore entered upon, imme- diately at the conclusion of the first term, 30th November, 1905; and, in addition to testing the carrying capacity of land under '' Old Man " salt- bush, its object was incidentally to observe the effect of an almost exclu- sively saltbush diet for a prolougt'd period upon the wool and stamina of the sheep. D. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original New South Wales. Dept. of Agriculture. Sydney, C. Potter, Govt. Printer [etc. ]
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