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LAM 



LAR 



growth, as to be valuable for spin- 

 ning. To kill them earlier is so 

 wasteful a practice as to be inex- 

 cusable. 



Those ewe lambs which are kept 

 for stock, should not come at the 

 rams : For if thej have lambs at a 

 year old, it stiots them in iheir 

 growth ; and they have so little 

 milk, that their lambs commonly 

 die for wani of nourishment. Or if 

 they chance to live, they will be 

 apt to be always small. This prac- 

 tice is one reason why our breed of 

 sheep in this country is so poor. 

 See the article Sheep. 



The largest lambs should be 

 sheared at the time of the new 

 moon in July. Their fleeces will 

 yield as much the next year, and 

 the wool will be better, and as cold 

 storms rarel} happen at that time 

 of the year, the lambs will do bet- 

 ter without their fleeces than with 

 them. 



LAMPAS, " an excrescence in 

 the roof of the mouth, which hin- 

 ders a horse from feeding,and hap- 

 pens usually to young horses. It 

 is cured by applying a hot iron 

 made for that purpose. It is suc- 

 cessfully performed in all parts ; 

 so that there is no need of any cau- 

 tion, but only that the farrier do not 

 penetrate too deep, so as to scale 

 the thin bone that lies under the 

 upper bars; for that would be at- 

 tended with very troublesome and 

 dangerous symptoms." Gibson^s 

 Farriery. 



Judge Peters, of Pennsylvania 

 says, thatlampas is caused by fever 

 in the horse that the swelling should 

 be allayed by reducing the fever — 

 that he would never suffer a horse 



to be burned in the mouth, as he 

 had known them ruined by the op- 

 eration. Sometimes a mess or two 

 of hard Indian corn he observes 

 will cure the swelling. 



LAND, a general name applied 

 to the earth, or to the ground. 



" If land be unproductive, and a 

 system of ameliorating it is to be 

 attempted, the sure method of ob- 

 taining the object is b) determining 

 the cause of its sterility, which must 

 necessarily depend upon some de- 

 fect in the constitution of the soil, 

 which may be easily discovered by 

 chemical analysis. 



" Some lands of good apparent 

 texture are yet sterile in a high de- 

 gree ; and common observation and 

 cojnmon practice aiford no means 

 of ascertaining the cause, or of re- 

 movinglhe effect. The applica- 

 tion of chemical tests in such cases 

 is obvious ; for the soil must con- 

 tain some noxious principle which 

 may be easily discovered, and pro- 

 bly as easily destroyed. 



" Are any of the salts of iron pre- 

 sent ? They may be decomposed 

 by lime. Is there an excess of si- 

 liceous sand ? the system of im- 

 provement must depend on the ap- 

 plication of clay and calcareous 

 matter. Is there a defect of calca- 

 reous matter ? the remedy is obvi- 

 ous. Is an excess of vegetable mat- 

 ter indicated ? it may be removed 

 by liming, paring, and burning. Is 

 there a deficiency of vegetable 

 matter ? It is to be supplied by ma- 

 nure." Agricultural Chemistry. 

 See Soil, 



LARCH, Hackmatack, Juniper, 

 Pinua larix, "a genus of trees, 

 whose leaves are long and narrow. 



