"For many years, in fact there has hardly been a time when A.L. Barton, who resides in the east part of Dexter, has not been able to count among his possessions one pair of oxen at least which was a little larger than any to be found elsewhere in that part of the state. The larger one of the yoke tips the scale at 2,900 pounds is exactly nine feet long from the roots of his horn to the roots of his tail. The other is not as large but girts eight feet four inches. The pair weighs 5,580 pounds.

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