Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1857-04-10
agricultural.
Correspondence Of the New York Journal OF Commerce.
CAMELS AND ANGORA GOATS FOR
THE UNITED STATES.

THE UNITED STATES.
INTERESTING LETTER FROM CONSTANT
NOBLE.
The storc-ship Supply has again come out
in the Mediterranean for cargo of camels,
and is daily expected at Smyrna, where Mr.
Heep is now engaged selecting tho best kind
for transportation to Texas The Ottoman
Government has sent an order to the Govern
or General of Smyrna to see that every assis-
lance be given to Mr.. Heep in carrying out
the project of his Government; and | hear
that he will probably make visit into the
interior of Asia Minor, to Sardis of Koniah,
in pursuance Of his instructions. The Sui
tan has ordered the Governor General of
Smyrna to give Mr.. Heep six of the finest
camels of the country for his Government,
in the view of evincing the interest which he
takes in the successful introduction of camels
into the United States. Last year the sud
den departure of the Supply from CONSTANT
nople prevented her taking the camels offered
by the Sultan. There is no doubt but these
camels will become Of immense value TO the
inhabitants of the southern part of the United
States. and that in the cotton-growing States
they will be used to convey bales of cotton to
ports Of shipment. In the province of Adm
of which Smyrna is the capital, large quanti-
ties of cotton are raised, and without camels
they could not be conveyed to this port. They
also carry all the wool, figs, opium, madden
root, and other objects Of produce, from the
interior Of Asia Minor TO Smyrna. In the
vicinity of this city, coal, barley, and straw
are carried on camels 10 market, and. on their
return, they are loaded with merchandise for
the use of the more distant villages Thus
it is seen that the use of the camel is not
confined to the deserts of Africa, as is gener-
ally supposed in the United States. In the
Ottoman Empire they may be seen crossing
the highest mountains at all seasons and
they are no more affected by cold than by
heat just like the horse, the mule, or the
ass, which may originally have belonged to a
particular climate and region, the camel is
susceptible of adopting all climates and all
parts of the globe.
There is another animal produced near this
place which seems 10 merit the particular at
tention Of the American Government, and
will, trust be hereafter imported into the
United States-l allude to the Angora goats
These are raised mostly in the vicinity of the
city OF Angora, though some arc found at
considerable distances from IT, | find the
following remarks made on this goat by the
celebrated French savant Tourpefort. who
visited the East by command Of the French
King, in Ammo Domini 1900:
''Ihey breed the finest goats in the world
in the champaign of Angora They are Of a
dazzling white, and their hair, which is as fine
as silk, naturally curled in locks of eight or
nine inches long, is worked up into the finest
stuffs, especially camlet but they do not suf-
fer these heeces to be exported unspun, be-
cause the country people gain their livelihood
thereby. Strabo seems to have spoken of
these fine goats In the neighberhood of
the river Hays says he, they had sheep,
whose wool is very thick and soft and be-
sides, they are goats not TO be met with any
where else. However it be, these fine goats
are not to be seen only within four or five
days journey Of Angora and Bcybazar; the
thread made OF this goats hair is sold from
four hvres 70 twelve or fifteen liveres the
oaas there is some sold even for twvnty or