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Forage Production From Shrubs On Saline Land, C V. Malcolm
Forage Production From Shrubs On Saline Land, C V. Malcolm
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
In the first volume of the Journal of the Department of Agriculture in the year 1900, the results of experiments at Tulare Experiment Station in California on the growing of Australian saltbushes are reported.
Seed was first sent from Australia by Baron von Mueller in June, 1881. Three species of saltbush (A. semibaccata, A. numularia and A. vesicaria) are all reported to have grown well.
Although C. A. Gardner in 1929 suggested the growing of saltbushes for forage, the earliest and clearest recommendations are those of Teakle and Burvill in 1945.
Early research tended to concentrate mainly on the possibility …