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team, frequently getting stalled^ (the familiar term in Pennsylvania 

 when a team gets set fast in a sloiigii), compelled him to lessen his 

 loads. But he added, that in returning from Newport with their 

 wagons empty, his neighbour had the advantage in speed, although 

 none in the actual performance of the contract." 



Thus it appears that as Rome is said to have been saved by the 

 cackling of geese, the labour of oxen contributed on a critical occa- 

 sion to the establishment of the American Republic. So much in 

 answer may we not say in refutation, of the objection made to these 

 animals in comparison with horses for heavy draft even on the road. 



OX-SHOES AND MACHINE FOR SHOEING OXEN. 



A great impediment to the use of oxen on our public roads in the 

 winter season, is tlie liability of their feet to get sore for want of shoes 

 — a great scandal on the intelligence and humanity of all southern 

 farmers — for nothing can be easier or more simple than tlie manner 

 of doing it in New England, where cattle driven on the roads in 

 winter are as regularly shod as horses. In the hope of introducing a 

 practice reconunended equally by interest and humanity," a view is 

 here given of the frame used for that purpose, and tiie smith who does 

 not provide himself with one ought not to receive the patronage of 

 any enlightened neighbourhood. 



The frame, as here exhibited, should be seven and a half feet long 

 by three and a half wide, and five and a half high, consisting of four 

 upright posts A A A A, and two horizontal bars on each side B B B B, 



