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Show ' THE OX CART. tome Fmtts Loncernlng; That Lamberto! but Picturesque Vehicle. One -would scarcely expect to find ox (Arts made in this city, but they am made here by one manufacturer aa a part f a general wagon making business. The sale of ox carts in this country ia decreasing. Here the use of them has always in large measure been confined to the rough and hilly farms of the Nevr England and middle states, and even is those Btates they are now giving way to carts and wagons drawn by horses. Old farmers brought up to use ox carts continue con-tinue to use them, but their sons do aot The younger men buy not. oxen, but horses, not ox carts, but wagons and horse carts. How much ol this change Is due to the fact that the stony, hilly lands are now pretty well cleared aad that oxen are less needed for plowing, how much is due to the spirit of th Ige with its quicker movesaant in all the fields of labor, how much to a great-f great-f inclination toward luxury, it might be difficult to say, but the o cart ia passing away. It is still used, however, to some extent It may be met perhaps to the haying field, perhaps under the spreading elms at the village blacksmith's black-smith's shop. The cart met amid such mrroundings is quite as likely to have been made in the city as in the country, or they are all substantially alika The only important changes that have been made in ox carts in many years have been the substitution of iron for wooden axles and the broadening of the face of the wheel. All ox carts are novr built with iron axles and 4 inch tires. New York city built ox carts are sold in western Connecticut, in western Massachusetts and in New York, and occasionally in remoter parts of this country. There is a steady demand f oi them from the planters of the West Indies In-dies and of Central and South America. An ox cart cost about $100. New York gun. |