. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. f small, long, red vermin is peculiarto them; is not fatal, and can be destroyed mainly by preparations of tobacco, cresylic soap,or camphor, sulphur, etc., applied along Mr. Peters of Georgia also states that: The Angoras may be classed with the herbiv-orous animals. They have not proved to be a success in the Eastern and Middle States, whenkept in small enclosures on grass, during the summer, and in winter in close barns, and fedon grai
. The American farmer. A complete agricultural library, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments and details. f small, long, red vermin is peculiarto them; is not fatal, and can be destroyed mainly by preparations of tobacco, cresylic soap,or camphor, sulphur, etc., applied along Mr. Peters of Georgia also states that: The Angoras may be classed with the herbiv-orous animals. They have not proved to be a success in the Eastern and Middle States, whenkept in small enclosures on grass, during the summer, and in winter in close barns, and fedon grain and hay. At my farm, near Atlanta, they have succeeded admirably, beingexempt from disease and able to protect themselves from attacks by dogs; but they areallowed to run out, summer and winter, in an inclosure of over a hundred acres of woods-pasture land, which they have greatly improved by killing the undergrowth of briars andbushes. It will be seen by the preceding statements, that goats may be easily reared in a climateadapted to them, that they have few diseases, and under proper management the industrymay be made a remunerative 355 ALPACAS. THE Alpaca is a native of the lofty table-lands and mountain range of the Andes inPeru and Chili, and has long occupied in that region of the globe, the position heldby its congeners of larger size—the camel—in the old world. Llamas were to theancient Peruvians the only available beasts of burden and wool-bearing sources, the same asthe camel is at the present day to the tribes of the Asiatic deserts. The camel (Camelus) andllama (^Auchaiia), form the two existing genera of the family Camelidae, and they thus,in a zoological sense, represent each other in different regions of the earth. A great dealof doubt and confusion, however, has existed as to the number of species into which thellama can be divided. Most authorities now agree in regarding them separable into four species, viz.: the llama(Auchenialama), the huanaco or
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