'Military report on Tehran and adjacent Provinces of North-West Persia (including the Caspian Littoral)' [‎158r] (320/610)

Honey bees are kept in most Elburz anH in ™
in
quant.ty o£ wool is exported, but the number of sbeep com '
derably decreased during the famine year 1917,18 The eW
mdk is turned into cheese. The sheep are of the fat tailed
variety except m Mazandaran, where tho +iw ir , lc t f d
short work of their tails. Cattle are scarce and poor eSept
m Mazandaran, which contains mamr i / 1 exce P l
smaU, sturdy long horned^mpTL^wMch fup^ y ^cef
WlanT Pr ° dUCe ' ^ Water bUffal0eS are in the Lsptn
is in 8 a k bi,7w°ay? Ced “ ^ “ d btlt «* i»*»hy
Camels horses, mules and donkeys are too few for the needs
in the famin? of 1 iTlS h0r d eS rt nd l™ 168 died and were kilIed off
m tne xamme of 1918, and they have become very exnensive
Camels are of 2 kinds^ Tabriz! and Shahsavan/th^forme;
are bred in Azarbaijan and the latter in Kharaaan Oum
S'aldS tnd f0^ , l00a, USe are Mzan-’
aran and Gilan, and a few mules are bred in Khamseh but
mules required for transport in this area are mostly boueh-
from Kirmanshah or Isfahan. y DOU 8 il -
The scarcity of animals, the diversion of transport from
i s normal occupation to meet the requirements of the British
Forces m North, East, and South of Persia, and the dearness of
fodder until the harvest of 1920, caused a great rise in the
cost of transport. Extreme variation in pricfs of foodstuffs
ensues m different districts, the hire of a mule from Ma ° an dS£
IPlItdt o? ^S^heafa^d^rT 06
rThefa 0 ” 1500 kr “ S t0 l’ 000 krSM ’ kl-ar“? o?to
bs. The famine was caused by drought, diminution in the
number of ploughmg oxen due to rinderpest, by sickness
devastation and requisitioning of supplies by Turkish 7d
Russian armies, and accentuated by cornering of wheat Hy
• Fi°o, Pp ces anci loads carried, see p. 808.
At Suitanabad (in'Iraq) the price of wheat exceeded 2,000 krars per kharvar.