. The Plough, the loom, and the anvil. feedingis considered preferable, being fresher in small quantities, eaten more freely,and less liable to get under their feet, and be wasted. Carts being cheaper than wagons, and handier about the ordinary businessof a farm, are therefore to be desired. Different kinds of bodies may beattached occasionally to one pair of wheels; an open one for hay, sheaves,cfcc, and a close one for fruit and vegetables. The naked wheels are handyto haul spars, poles, and all kinds of long timber on. In hitching a cart tothe oxen, the tongue or spire thereof passes into t
. The Plough, the loom, and the anvil. feedingis considered preferable, being fresher in small quantities, eaten more freely,and less liable to get under their feet, and be wasted. Carts being cheaper than wagons, and handier about the ordinary businessof a farm, are therefore to be desired. Different kinds of bodies may beattached occasionally to one pair of wheels; an open one for hay, sheaves,cfcc, and a close one for fruit and vegetables. The naked wheels are handyto haul spars, poles, and all kinds of long timber on. In hitching a cart tothe oxen, the tongue or spire thereof passes into the ring of the ox-yoke, as ADVANTAGES FROM THE USE OF OXEN. 359 far as the shoulder in the tongue wiJI permit; an iron instrument called acopes pin, resembling the capital letter U, is put on the end of the tongue,embracing it above and below, and the copes pin is inserted through the endof the tongue and through the copes. This copes is for the purpose of hitchingthe second yoke of oxen to, when necessary. (See the annexed drawing.). Wherever oxen and yokes are used, chains become indispensable; four ofthese, each ten feet long, with a hook in each end, or part of them with a ringin one end and a hook at the other, are enough for two or three yokes of oxen. The drawings above are necessary for a better understanding of what hasbeen said. Fig. 1 represents a cart-tongue hitched to a yoke, as in the act of draw- 360 ADVANTAGES FROM THE USE OF OXEN. ing; a is the copes pin, which goes through the tongue, and by which theyoke draws; b is the copes by which the second pair is hitched, whennecessary. Fi<T. 2, a stanchion and bows, by which cattle are secured at their crib;a, the cap lies flat on the top of their neck; the end of the bow at b is some-times hke a button, and is put in the hole at c, and springs into its place. Fig. 3 is the model of a yoke for a middling sized pair of oxen. Wholelength, three and a half feet; distance of bow-holes, a to a, twenty inches;from b to b
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