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The RURAL NEW.YORKER 
February 7, 1920 
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Oxen and Beef Cattle 
Demand Beef Breeding 
The feeders who buy steers for fattening 
at the Lancaster, Pa., yards do not seem 
to agree as to which is the most profitable 
breed of steers to fatten, some demanding 
grade shorthorns, others insisting on An¬ 
gus or other breeds, but they do agree on 
one point—the steers must show some 
definite beef breeding. One old timer, who 
has been feeding steers on his farm near 
Lancaster for many years, always picks 
out Shorthorns, and whenever possible he 
takes the Canadian grass-fed Shorthorns. 
Such steers respond better to grain feed¬ 
ing, according to this man, than those 
which have been getting other feeds, such 
as roughage and small quantities of grain. 
The grass-fed steers are started off on a 
liberal allowance of roughage and a small 
amount of coru-and-cob meal. The meal 
is gradually increased during the fatten¬ 
ing period, and cottonseed meal is fed in 
addition. 
Another feeder who also lives near Lan¬ 
caster will buy nothing but grade Angus 
feeders. The “blacks,” he says, mature 
earlier, make the host gains per unit of 
feed, and bring a better price. One year 
this feeder fed a bunch of cattle from 
oue of the large dairy breeds, and while 
they made big gains, he claims that they 
did not put on a finish, and did not fill 
out in the rump and loin as do the Angus 
and Shorthorn feeders. 
The fact that each feeder is so sure 
that the breed of steers he is feeding is 
the most economical would lead to the 
the ring on the under side of the center of 
the yoke, hooking the big heavy chain in 
the heavy staple of the ring; passed it 
back on the tongue, looping it around the 
hammer, as the pin that goes through the 
whiffietrees was called. This bolt had a 
hammer-head on it, a very handy tool in 
case of emergency out in the field. Or 
we would go to the field, where the plow 
stood in the furrow from the previous 
day’s work, placing the “off ox” in the 
furrow; pick up the ox chain, which had 
been left fast to the plow, pass it through 
the ring in the yoke and double back to a 
length to adjust the depth to be plowed; 
then, taking bold of the plow handles, sav 
“get up,” or “go along.” Buck and Bright, 
as they were often called, would wince a 
little as they first put their weight and 
shoulders to the yoke and bows, take a 
steady pull, the “off ox” walking in the 
furrow on past the corner, turning the 
last sod there, the driver saying “whoa, 
haw, come about,” swinging around, one 
ox in the furrow, as before, thus keepiug 
on until the field was plowed. 
This ox team of our fathers was the 
real bandy team, for all purposes, on the 
farm. Their yoke was strong and well¬ 
shaped, carved from a Gx8 elm. butternut 
or sometimes other wood, with heavy bent 
white hickory bows, and the heavy, large- 
linked wrought iron chain, and the lash 
whip, or “ox gad.” as it was more often 
called, was all the equipment for the ox 
team in its various duties on the farm, ex¬ 
cepting in the lumbering sections of the 
country, when a breeching harness was 
sometimes used to hold the loud, back go¬ 
ing down grade. In these sections they 
were often shod with sharp-calked shoes 
to prevent slipping on ice. These latter 
appliances were usually uncalled-for on 
the general or mixed farming land. 
While the ox team has been used the 
world over, it was the real American ox 
team that lias laid the foundation of 
Purebred Abcrdeeii-Angus Herd Sire on Skipper Farm, Kent Count ij, Md. 
conclusion that the best breed for any 
feeder is the breed he likes best. 
Maryland. n. T. Baldwin. 
R. N.-T.—At the Lancaster stock yards 
recently we asked about this and were 
told that the general opinion is that the 
Shorthorns respond best on farms where 
there is a large amount of roughage and 
silage to be fed with grain. 
“Ox Team Money” 
I was born and grew up on a large 
dairy, butter and later a milk producing 
farm, where a yoke of oxen was kept as 
an auxiliary and reliable team, to do all 
or a good part of the heavy farm team 
work. Well do I remember in my youth 
going out in the pasture and driving the 
oxen up to the bars that entered the pas¬ 
ture field. I would take the ox yoke that 
stood against the bar post, where it had 
been left when the oxen had been turned 
to pasture, and placing one end on my 
shoulder, pull out the key through the 
bow on top of the yoke, drawing the bow 
out of the yoke. I would then step over 
gently on the “off ox,” place the yoke on 
top of his neck, pass the bow up around 
his neck into the yoke, shove in the key, 
step back, removing the other bow. hold¬ 
ing up the end of the yoke with my left 
hand, and with the bow in my right hand, 
swing it out like a whip, and with a com¬ 
manding voice say, “Haw, come under 
here,” and the “near ox” would deliber¬ 
ately walk under the yoke as commanded 
and have the bow placed up around his 
neck, as was done to his mate. 
Stepping back, picking up the ox gad 
(whip), letting down the bars at one 
end. stepping over them, and then saying 
“Come on, boys,” they obeyed every com¬ 
mand. without reins, bit or bridle. Ar¬ 
riving at the barns, perhaps to be hitched 
to tin* heavy farm wagon or the ox cart, 
at another command the “off ox” would 
circle around over the heavy tongue. 
Stepping in between them, I lifted the 
tongue up, placing the end of it through 
American progress. The early settler 
with his ox team made his clearing, built 
his cabin of logs, broke the first ground 
for his corn, oats, wheat, etc. It was the 
ox team that led civilization across the 
continent, from ocean to ocean. As mat¬ 
ters began to advance more rapidly the or 
team was considered too slow. The ox 
lias had his day and became practically 
obsolete. It was his fattened carcass that 
set the pace on the butchers’ block for the 
American steer beef. But don’t let the or 
team be forgotten. Let our government 
stamp them and their husky young Amer¬ 
ican driver on some of our much-used 
coin ; make them a national figure. The 
real ox team of our youth was a tine pair 
of red Devon oxen. With broad, regular, 
wide-spreading horns, yoked together, with 
their driver a typical young American 
with his happy, energetic face, dressed in 
his hand-made pants and galluses, cotton 
shirt, cowhide boots or shoes, topped with 
a chip (straw) hat of that period, stand¬ 
ing at their side, with his homemade lash 
whip or ox gad. held up over his shoulder. 
We have on our coins the American eagle, 
we have the Indian head, the Lincoln pen¬ 
ny, the buffalo nickel. Wliv not have the 
American ox team and driver two-cent 
piece, or on some other much-used coin? 
EMMET VAN REXSSKI.AEF GARDNER. 
Wheezing Cow 
I have a cow which wheezes at times, 
while other times I cannot notice any¬ 
thing. She eats well and feels well, stay¬ 
ing in good condition. Can you tell me 
what it is, also if the milk is good for 
use ? i*. E. G. 
Pennsylvania. 
While indigestion may cause attacks of 
wheezing, similar to asthma, tuberculosis 
is such a common cause that the tubercu¬ 
lin test always should be applied in such 
cases. If the cow proves to be tuber¬ 
culous the milk will be dangerous for use 
by man or animals. 
Lawyer: “Wlmt was the judge’s charge 
to the jury?” Ex-juryman : “Not a cent. 
In fact, we were paid by the day for our 
work.”—Bos f ou Transcript. 
