The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1858-12-18
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Major Wayne, who for ten wears has been occu-
pied with the experiment ofintroducing the Camel
into this country, states in the National IcIigencer
the result. He says:
The camel does not consume more food than
horse or mule prefers diet; satisfies itself
readily with either scanty grazing or browsing;
quires feeding but once day, being ruminant;
and would be with difficulty distressed for water
1t requires no close stables only shed protecting it
from cold northerly winds and from falling wealth
err; and requires no grooming, though certainly
healthier and better, like all other animals for
clean skin. The camel is undoubtedly a harder
and tougher animal than the horse; not surpassed,
ifequalled in these respects by the mule; and with
half the forage of either, and with two or three
hours OF grazing or browsing, can be kept in
dition. In addition to the economy in forage, the
use of cames saves the outlay for wagons and carts
harness, shoes, and the necessary repairs of them
The pack-saddle being so simple in its construction
as to be readily made on the plantations, its cost
will be but trihing. Its weight moreover, COM
pared with that of wagon or cart, increases the
physical energy devoted to the transportation of
goods. For short distances, say about a planta-
ton, or for six or eight miles the road, strong
camel will carry, an average, from eight hun
dred to one thousand pounds. The Tulus of Asia
Minor, the produce of the ube-humped Bactrian
male on the ngle-humped Arabian female, will
average, for the distance, from one thousand
to fifteen hundred pounds. All of the statements in
my official report of what was done by the camels
under my direction in Texas, are made from accu-
rate weights and closely computed distances.
So far, the general advantages from using camels
NAV be summed up follows:
They will flourish as well in the United States as
either horses mules
They may be introduced at Mobile or Pensacola
at rates not greater-certainly not much greater
than present prices for good mules.
They are not as expensive to feed as horses or
mules.
They require no close stables nor grooming.
They are as tough and as hardy as either horse
or mule.
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harness, and Shoes and constant tax for their
pairs.
Their physical energy is not largely drawn upon
for the draught of wagon cart, and, therefore,
is propOrtonately given more usefuy to the trans
portation of goods.
They will do more work at the same cost and
keeping than either horse or mule.
These are the general advantages that | think
may be fairly claimed for the camel. Now let
us examine how far this animal with these advan-
tages, may be suitable for our plantation or farm
uses.
In Egypt have seen the camel used in cities and
in the country, on plantations in fields and on the
| road, for every purpose that horses and mules are
used with us. have seen them transporting bricks
and broken stone from yards and quarries for build
ings, eepers, ratters, scantng boards for flooring
DC. | have seen them carrying chopped straw,
corn, cotton fodder, merchandise of all kinds men,
women and children, and with their burdens step
ping intelligently and with sure-ootedness into and
out of clumsy ferry boats. And | have seen them
usefully occupied in carrying burdens on the dams
and check banks of rice plantations Is there any,
thing than these that our plantations and
farms require?
The camel has been known to thrive and be use
full between Is and 50 deg. north latitude; the mean
| temperature of which region may be rated at from
so to 6s degrees. The cost of a good serviceable
camel landed at Mobile Pensacola, will be from
$50 to 5000. The animal is much less troublesome
at sea than the horse,-a hundred camels causing
less anxiety than ten horses.
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