. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. iS6 ALL ABOUT COUXTR Y LIFE. Labvimum. most necessarj' kinds of farm- servants are carters and shepherds, for whom provision of a house and garden is very generally made throughout the kingdom, in addition to the ordinary wages. The increasing use of ma- chiner\- has opened a market, too, for skilled labour, to be paid for at higher rates. A steam-engine will
. All about country life : being a dictionary of rural avocations, and of knowledge necessary to the management of the farm, the stable, the stockyard, and a gentleman's out of town residence and property. Agriculture; Country life. iS6 ALL ABOUT COUXTR Y LIFE. Labvimum. most necessarj' kinds of farm- servants are carters and shepherds, for whom provision of a house and garden is very generally made throughout the kingdom, in addition to the ordinary wages. The increasing use of ma- chiner\- has opened a market, too, for skilled labour, to be paid for at higher rates. A steam-engine will now be found working on wellnigh ever}- large farm, which requires one man at least who understands its management. The effect of machineiy, on the other hand, lias been to make manv other kinds of L-amb. LAIRY. In Scotland means wet and swampy. In Devon applied to a cart empty. Applied to meat, it means muscular. LAMB. The young of sheep. The flesh of slaughtered lambs lilcewise bears the name and forms the choicest and most palatable of butchers' meat; in spring and summer, selling as high as is. a pound when first in season, and gradually declining in price until worth. farm work of irksome, continuous toil much less wanted. The army of thrashers, for instance, may be deemed thoroughly disbanded, and the flail itself may just as well be laid up in the British Museum as an antiquated im- plement. LABUBNTJM. An tree, often found in shrubberies, of the cytisus kind. LACE, A Cornish phrase for a perch of land. no more tiian mutton. It is the in- terest of farmers who fatten lambs, therefore, to get the young animals rapidly forward so as to be ready for the knife early. To effect this object, cake, corn, or meal has regularly to be supplied to both the ewes and lambs; and it is said the latter are always helped forward more rapidly by being allowed Thorley's condiment. Somer- set and Dorset horns is the breed will always furnish, if allowed, the earliest c
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