Fresh horse droppings, cow dung, and a little loam mixed and beaten up with as much stable drainings as may be necessary to reduce the whole to the consistence of mortar.
Sugar drainings and sugar sweepings shall be subject to duty either as molasses or sugar, as the case may be, according to polariscopic test.
A round cistern receives thedrainings of the mother-waters.
The water, being mixed with dirt and the drainings from the sepulchres round Mamillah, is not fit to drink.
They were most commonly found near the longest of the small beaches to the eastward of Kangaroo Head, where some little drainings of water oozed from the rocks.
This piece of water was found to be one mile and a half east and west, and one mile in breadth, and appeared to receive the drainings from the numerous swamps round about.
The following are organic manures: Farm-yard manure consists of the mixed dung of horses and cattle thrown together, and more or less soaked with liquid drainings of the stable or byre.
He waters frequently with the drainings of the dunghill.
These ammoniacal salts are soluble in water--as the brown color of the drainings of a manure heap sufficiently indicates.
The urine of the horse, cow, and pig, does not contain any appreciable quantity of phosphate of lime, whilst the drainings of dung-heaps contain considerable quantities of this valuable fertilizer.
In one important respect do the drainings of manure-heaps differ from urine--that is, in the percentage of phosphates they contain, the latter being practically devoid of phosphoric acid.
It has to be pointed out, however, that the drainings from a manure-heap in this respect are superior to pure urine, since they contain the soluble phosphates washed out of the solid excreta.
It is on this account that the drainings of rotten manure-heaps are more valuable, from a manurial point of view, than urine itself, since these contain the soluble portion of the phosphates in the solid excreta.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "drainings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
