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Show THE OX CART. """ Jome Ffwta V-onccrning That tnmbelnj but ricturesqno Yeldclo. One -would scarcely expect; to find oi l&rts made in this city, but they ara maae here by ono manufacturer as a part at a general wagon making business. The sale of ox carts in this country U decreasing. Here the use of them haa always in laige measure been confined to tho rough and hilly farms of the Now England and middle states, and even in those states they are now giving way tc carts and wagens drawn by horses. Old farmars brought up to use ox carts con tinue to use them, but their sons do not The younger men buy not oxen, but horses, not o carts, but wagons and horse carts. How much ot this change is due to tho fact that tho stony, hilly lands are now pretty well cleared and that oxen are less needed for plowing, how much is due to tho spirit of the tgo with its quicker movoiwnt in all She fields of labor, how much to a greater great-er inclination toward lury, it might bo difficult to say, but tho on cart is passing away. It is still used, however, to somo extent. It may be met perhaps oi the haying field, perhaps under the upreading elms at the village blacksmith's black-smith's shop. The cart met amid such (surroundings is quite as likely to have been made in the city as in the country, for they aro all substantially alike. The only important changes that ha?6 been made in ox carts in many year? have been the substitution of iron foi wooden azles and tho broadening of tho face of tho wheel. All ox carts are now built with iron axles and 4 inch tires. New York city built ox carts are sold Ju western Connecticut, in western Alassachusetts and in New York, and occasionally in remoter parts of this country. There is a steady demand fo? them from the planters of tho West Indies In-dies and of Central and South America. An ox cart coats about 100. -New York Sua |