No. 42. 



New Jersey Oxen. 



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The i^cw Jersey Maininotli Oxeu. 



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DuUeof Gloucester— Fig. 72. 



We have the pleasure of presenting to our readers striking portraits of the celebrated 

 mammoth oxen, raised by Edward Tonkin, near Woodbury, Gloucester county. New Jer- 

 sey. These extraordinary animals have attracted great attention. They are eight years 

 old this month. They received nothing more than ordinary treatment, until they were past 

 three years, and subsequently, though stall fed, no unusual pains have been bestowed upon 

 them. They were sold during the last winter, to some gentlemen in Washington city, for 

 the sum of tliree thousand five hundred dollars ; at which time their weight was as follows % 



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Earl of Jersey.— Fig.73. 



The Earl of Jersey, tliree thousand and forty pounds : — The Duke of Gloucester, three thou- 

 sand and forty-two pounds. They have not yet been slaughtered. These justly celebrated 



