Meet Jack and Jim, a pair of 3-year-old Devon oxen that will be making their debut at the Carroll County Farm Museum in Westminster this weekend. The two oxen were donated by the museum’s Hoff Barn ...

Sweat drips down Todd Clark's forehead as he jostles his oxen Buck and Robie into the center of the ring. Clark hollers calls and taps the oxen's noses with a goat stick lining them up to the cement ...

With firm commands, Don Hoff and Karen Butler guided the Carroll County Farm Museum’s team of oxen around the yard Tuesday as the two beasts of burden pulled a large tire behind them. Jack and Jim, a ...

Since Calumet Avenue has punched its way through to U.S. 30, it is easy to see how land in the middle part of Lake County is likely to develop. From the overpass, one can look down not at corn sprouts ...

Stash looked at me through his fringe of shaggy hair as I shouted, “Walk on!” He just stood staring at me with a puzzled look on his face. I was standing about six feet in front of him and using the ...

POULTNEY, Vt. (AP) — Bill and Lou have plied the fields of Green Mountain College’s farm in Vermont for most of their lives — about 10 years. Students have learned to drive the oxen team for haying ...

On a recent afternoon amid the hype of children, rides and fried-food bliss, one very large OC Fair employee stands out from the crowd – a black-and-white, 6-foot-tall ox named Patches. Patches, a ...

— Traffic came to a standstill Sunday morning on Krom Street, where a scene straight out of pioneer days had passersby reaching for their cellphone cameras. A team of oxen from Tillers International ...

At four o'clock in the morning (during the years 1833-37) Joseph Glidden and his son Mark left their home, starting their day of drawing stone from the quarries in Barre to the new state capitol at ...

LANCASTER — Two investigations are underway after a video was posted on a social media site Saturday that showed an oxen team being repeatedly struck by their driver with a goading stick to get them ...

Historians say Spanish oxen were used to pull the first wheeled vehicles in what became the United States. Later, in the pioneer years before railroads, settlers would drive teams of rangy oxen and ...