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Sliahpur camels browse on the bushes in the Bar and get no other 

 food. Nini and Bnrgot are considered very good food; Peepul 

 and Babul are stimulant and specially suited for the cold weather. 

 Yaldwiu mentions also the following as useful fodder : — Goolur, 

 Kateela, Phulai, Behr, Jhana, Jhari, Goolalee, Hees, Kurrul, 

 Jawassa, Karouda, Kair-Lana, also Kusseel, Mote in any stage 

 of ripeness, Sarson, and Tara Mora in seed, each in its season. 

 Martin tells us that Jowasir (the Camel Thoi-n) and Falai (an 

 acacia) and other acaciae constituted the principal fodder in 

 Afghanistan and nourished the camels well. Leach mentions 

 Gocru and Missi as used near lloorkee duriug the rains. Gilchrist 

 considers that the use of Peepul combined with Banyan leaves 

 causes colic. " The animal can })ass three days without food. But 

 either deprivation of solid food for tw'o days, or of liquid food for 

 four consecutive days, greatly weakens it, and in order to prevent 

 it perishing under such privations its load must be immediately 

 and very materially reduced, the full weight not being re-imposed 

 until the lapse of a week from the date of the restoration of the 

 named necessaries" (Kostenko). It is evident that our knowledge 

 of the fodder required for Camels is veiy general at present and we 

 must rely to a great extent on the instinct of the animal in deter- 

 mining what is suitable and what ought to be rejected — we shall 

 seldom, if ever, have to regret having done so. The fodder must 

 be varied in character, and sufficient in quantity to give the bulk 

 essential for the due performance of Pumination. We must never, 

 as was done in the Crimea, imagine that increased amount of grain 

 can compensate to a herbivore, especially a ruminant, for loss of 

 its fodder. Camels maybe given grain or pulse food of various 

 kinds. The Arabs object to barley as liable to bring on diarrhoea 

 in a few days ; and Yaldwin, in writing of his observations in 

 Afghanistan, expresses his opinion that barley is a poor substitute 

 for gram or mote. He considers a mixture of wheat flour with 

 ghee and ghur excellent, or barley flour may be used made up 

 into balls with mutton fat, and lu'ges the necessity for weekly 

 administration of stomachic mussauls. There is reason to believe 

 that these latter are beneficial especially for camels kept on 

 bhoosa and other non-stimulant forms of fodder. At ccrtaiji times 

 of the year the camel men ap])ly for Kharisk or Itch mussauls, 

 which are of a more tonic character and also should be considered 



