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- March 22, 2012 at 12:12 am #43652
Droverone
ParticipantHe’s happy who, far away from business, like the races of men of old, tills his ancestral fields with his own oxen, unbound by any interest to pay.
HORACEMarch 22, 2012 at 1:44 am #73017Anonymous
Inactive“Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.”
Prov. 14:4March 22, 2012 at 1:53 pm #73016Kevin Cunningham
Participant“A man can not train oxen properly until he has first trained himself in the ways of patience, perseverance, and quietness.” -from “Trial of Working Oxen” front page article in The American Agriculturalist, December 1871, Vol. 30 #12. (stolen from the Tillers website)
March 23, 2012 at 1:12 am #73019Oxhill
Participant“If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?”
Seymoure Cray
March 23, 2012 at 1:30 pm #73018Anonymous
InactiveA husband and wife were driving down a country lane on their way to visit some friends. They came to a muddy patch in the road, and the car became bogged. After a few minutes of trying to get the car out by themselves, they saw a young farmer coming down the lane, driving some oxen before him.
He stopped when he saw the couple in trouble and offered to pull the car out of the mud for $50. The husband accepted, and minutes later, the car was free.
The farmer turned to the husband and said, “You know, you’re the tenth car I’ve helped out of the mud today.”
The husband looks around at the fields, incredulously, and asks the farmer, “When do you have time to plough your land? At night?
“No,” the young farmer replied, seriously. “Night is when I put the water in the hole.”
________________________________________Sorry, couldn’t help putting that in there.
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