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In plowing , the job in which oxen excelled , certain intelligent and docile teams could be controlled wholly by the voice without the use of the gad . In the days when oxen were still common on our farms , there were occasional farmers ...
In plowing , the job in which oxen excelled , certain intelligent and docile teams could be controlled wholly by the voice without the use of the gad . In the days when oxen were still common on our farms , there were occasional farmers ...
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There were bad - tempered oxen that would kick , and to this day the expression " kick like a steer " persists as one of the most common phrases of our everyday farm speech . Also , there were some oxen that would balk , and even now a ...
There were bad - tempered oxen that would kick , and to this day the expression " kick like a steer " persists as one of the most common phrases of our everyday farm speech . Also , there were some oxen that would balk , and even now a ...
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Oxen played a large part in the early days of our farm . My father's grandfather ( on the distaff side ) , one Jared Goodyear , was a Connecticut Yankee brought up in a day and in a region when cattle were the most usual beasts of ...
Oxen played a large part in the early days of our farm . My father's grandfather ( on the distaff side ) , one Jared Goodyear , was a Connecticut Yankee brought up in a day and in a region when cattle were the most usual beasts of ...
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Contents
Christopher Columbus Turns in a Crop | 3 |
Much More Corne was Planted | 9 |
PERLEY POORE How the Pig Helped to Make Massa | 16 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Harvest: An Anthology of Farm Writing |
| Editor | Wheeler McMillen |
| Publisher | Appleton-Century, 1964 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 19 Mar 2008 |
| Length | 424 pages |
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