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Show STRENGTH OF MEN AND OXEN. Bulk for Bulk, the Former Are the Stronger. Few people know that a mas, bulk for bulk, is stronger t" an ox, but It appears that such i : case. The matter was tested not kg since at a fair in America, one of the attractions of which was a contest of a yoke of oxen against an equal weight of men. A drag was loaded with granite blocks, weighing in the aggregate 4,959 pounds. The yoke of oxen that made the trial weighed 3,220 pounds, and twenty men, allowing 160 pounds to the man, were set against them. The men took hold of the drag first, and easily walked off with it, covering a distance of 95 feet in the space of two minutes. The oxenut their trial moved only eighty-five feet in the same length of time, and the men were accordingly declared winners. Pearson's Weekly. |