. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. /aSRwi Photo by Thelma Keene SANDING THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY Ox Team Saves A Little Gas In Bog Sanding Richard King of Sandwich, Cape Cod, Uses Only Yoke on Cape—He Likes Oxen —And They Do the Work. "What's the matter in going back to the ways of the forefath- ers—in some things—at least as far back as the use of oxen again?" asks Richard King, East Sandwich, Massachusetts, cran- berry grower. It's a time of conservation, of saving, even if it means reverting to some of the old methods. Oxen don't use up any of the supply o
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. /aSRwi Photo by Thelma Keene SANDING THE OLD-FASHIONED WAY Ox Team Saves A Little Gas In Bog Sanding Richard King of Sandwich, Cape Cod, Uses Only Yoke on Cape—He Likes Oxen —And They Do the Work. "What's the matter in going back to the ways of the forefath- ers—in some things—at least as far back as the use of oxen again?" asks Richard King, East Sandwich, Massachusetts, cran- berry grower. It's a time of conservation, of saving, even if it means reverting to some of the old methods. Oxen don't use up any of the supply of gasoline now needed for airplanes, Eight tanks and trucks. They once did the farm work on Cape Cod, as in other parts of the world. They have hauled sand for cranberry bogs in years gone by, and are now doing this for Mr. King. Which might make Mr. King ahead of the times, rather than behind, in using probably the only yoke of oxen on Cape Cod today. He uses them as a matter of preference. A good deal of farm work doesn't have to be done under pressure of the clock always, and sanding bogs is one of these things. There is gasoline saved and grass grows to save grain. There is salt hay for bedding. Oxen ran pull bigger loads than a horse. They can pull a load where a truck would get mired. So Mr. King uses his yoke to get his wood out of the woodlots and carts his sand from the sand hole to his bog. The King farm is at the Spring Hill section of East Sandwich — about 60 acres of farm and 100 acres of woodlot, and a fine, little bog of about an acre. The sand pit is just a couple of hills away from the bog; good sand, too. A brook runs through the bog giv- ing it adequate frost and winter flowage. His oxen are a fine yoke of Guernseys, and while he says they haven't any names and the kids call them "Nan" and "Bucky", it is obvious he has full apprecia- tion and affection for these farm animals. He has equipped his ox cai't with an extra pair of whe
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