Litchfield enquirer., 1861-02-14
More anon. A NATIONAL DEMOCRAT.
OK TEAMS AND HORSE TEAMS.

It is generally agreed that horses travel faster than oxen, and that on farm consisting of plains and destitute of rocks a pair of horses will do more on the plough and harrow than yoke of oxen. sff .9 seHb
 Horses will wear longer than oxen, that is, farm horses will last to work till twenty years old, but oxen should not be kept half so long, though some would work till they are fourteen. But af- ter admitting so much, we may be allowed to say word or two in favor of the practice of keeping oxen. -.s ......-.s
 | And first, as to the cost of the animals. Or. sn of equal weight with horses are bought for one half price. Oxen are worth something af- ter they are worn out in work-hores are not. | Oxen are not half so liable to disease as hors- es are. An insurer will ask fourfold more for insuring the health of horses than of oxen.s | The gearing for oxen costs less by half than that of horses. A wooden yoke lasts longer than leather harness, and it is put on and of in half the time. 9 -Ie4EsntL
 horses must have four. Oxen are more patient than horses, and will carry more even yoke.
 They start load better than horses, particular ly in snow path, where the runners stick to the snow. -..........-s
 Oxen can be entrusted with hired men at less
 risk than horses. They are soon taught to
 draw the plough and to be driven by the plough-
 man without any reins.
 We have not largo proportion of farms
 without rocks and stumps, and where the land is rocky, there is no comparison between oxen
 and horses. 5A.
 In regard to cost of keeping, there would be
 but little difference if both were kept on the same food. But many of our farmers keep OK.
 on through the winter on coarse hay. straw and husks, which would not keep horses alive.
 Our own oxen (half blood Devon) never have } any but cheap hay, husks, &c., through the win- ter though they labor much of the time, When April comes, they, are kept on good hay, and thus they learn the difference between cheap and costly living. Oxen of the right breed are
 very readily fattened and their beef is better
 than that of COWS or young cattle, and brings more in the market. s dig Les -E-tv
 When farmers quit raising and keeping oxen, people must quit eating beef, and tanning ox-
 hides--Mass Ploaghmam.. ,s
 GYMNAsTIcs.-The grand tournament came of in Chicago, the other evening. Curtis and
 Thompson, of Chicago, and Dr. Wipship, were
 the principal competitors in feats of streRgth. Dr. Winship lifted nine kegs of nails, weighing T 1000 lbs. Then with shoulder straps he raised
 l ,5l7 lbs. Thompson did the same, and, with
 harness for the shoulder and hips kept adding to the weight, until he raised gDo6 IDS. IHe! f Winship lifted himself by bis little finger, and
 Thompson experimented with an l65 lb, dumb bell; and Winship shouldered 9 22o ID. barrel '- of flour, asd put it down carefully and Curtis # nushed l5o lbs in each hand with the pully, and fben I3O lbs in each hand, and then lying down e m his back, put up 40 lbs. in each hand. But 'f the feat of the evening was the great lift o
 Thompson, and the judges so considered it in the award of the $200, prize to him.
 70 SINGULAR PROPENSITY. is wealthy : citizen in Berlin, Prussia who has g most singIl v lar periodical desire to knock of hats. He af terward makes up the loss to the astenished vic
 tim by the payment of three thalsrs, Durinl if the past year he has been obliged to make geo' the loss of 267 bats. At 2 recent musical fes r tival 50 hats were sacrificed, and for the even n- ing's entertainment, he paid l50 shaleFs.l