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Title: A new family encyclopedia, or, Compendium of universal knowledge : comprehending a plain and practical view of those subjects most interesting to persons, in the ordinary professions of life : illustrated by numerous engravings
Year: 1831 (1830s)
Authors: Goodrich, Charles A. (Charles Augustus), 1790-1862
Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Publisher: Philadelphia : (s.n.)
Contributing Library: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Federally funded with LSTA funds through the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners

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; in doing which he raises theweight, and keeps it suspended as long as he continues to eat—and thuscontracts the habit of drawing in a few days. He is free to relax hisexertions, for whenever he recedes, the weight reposes on the ground. In working oxen to advantage, much depends on the mode of har-nessing them, and upon what has been termed the principle of draught.This principle depends on the joint power of the necf and base of thehorn. In Portugal, these animals are harnessed in the following man-ner : a long leather strap is wrapped round the yoke, whence it passesround the lower part of the horns, and is again fastened to the yoke. 34 FAMILY REPRESENTATION OF YOKING OXEN IN FRANCE. By this contrivance, the heads of the oxen become more steady, whileperforming their work, and these useful animals are rendered moretractable. In France, and on the Peninsula, oxen are worked by the head, and areyoked in a manner which is better expressed by the aid of figures than bydescription.
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REPRESENTATION OF YOKING OXEN IN FRANCE. Figure 1 represents a view of the hinder part of the head and neck ofthese animals, in the yoke as they appear to a spectator ; and figure 2 ex-hibits a front view of the upper parts of their heads, in order to convey amore accurate idea of the mode in which the French oxen are fastenedto the bow. The question, u whether it is most advantageous to yoke oxen by thehead or by the collar? has occasioned much discussion, and is evenyet undetermined. The prejudice throughout Great Britain is, generallyspeaking, decidedly in favor of the collar; but throughout Spain andPortugal, where oxen are the only animals employed in agriculturallabor, whether of road or field draught, they are invariably yoked by thehead. The strength of the animal indeed lies in his neck ; of the powerof which the yoke affords him all the advantage; while the collar de-prives him of it, as he does not draw by the shoulders. The far greatercost and trouble of harness than of yo

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