Young oxen can be broken in as a team around 4 to 6 months of age, he said. The bow must be adjustable to accommodate the first year’s growth. A yoke rests directly on the necks of the team, and ...

The ox, due to differences in build, cannot use a harness to pull a wagon or a plow. The yoke was developed over many centuries to enable oxen to pull with their shoulders against a load.

The word “yoke,” as in neck yoke, is more commonly associated with oxen, where it refers both to the wooden neck piece that is the main element of their harnesses and to a pair of oxen hitched ...

This month's term, "yoke," hearkens back to the crosspiece used to link working oxen, or the wooden beam worn over the shoulders by laborers.

"Raising a yoke of oxen," said a Westchester County farmer the other day, "is a good deal like raising children. You can never tell how they are going to turn out till they get too big for you to ...