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Show Strength of Elephants. The elephant is great ns a traction power. Kperhnentn have shown that a horse pulls about onc-slxth of Its ou'n wclgl '. whereas an elephant can pull Its cntiro weight. This might ho umplianis't'! Iiy the fact that nn ele-pnant ele-pnant is t-ix times ni- big as a horHO. In India, for ceiituricp. It lina been the custom to utilize elephants to push Instead In-stead of pull wagons, but now It has been shown 'hat they are unequalcd as pulltri- Two of them. In carefully arranged emi'sts, raised G.500 pounds. |