When the pit is cleared out the process of liming is disturbed for a time, as fresh lime liquors are not beneficial to hides and skins, and the loosening of the hair is delayed.
Although the pelts have been in a lime liquor known as the fellmonger's "gathering limes," the process ofliming has to be continued and carefully regulated.
After a day's immersion in the first handler liquor, the hides are hauled out with a sharp two-pronged hook fixed to the end of a long wooden pole, similar to that used in the liming process.
On the other hand, under-liming fails to remove sufficient of the cement substance which binds the fibres of the pelts; consequently, the leather produced from these pelts is thin and somewhat gristly.
The liming process in pits takes from six days to a month, according to the character of the leather required.
Too much liming makes the pelts loose, owing to the development of bacteria.
This method is not so much used for liming as for the tanning process.
It is a good method of liming hides or skins dressed in the hair, as it opens up the fibres without weakening the hair roots and prepares the hides in a suitable condition for tanning.
Generally, however, the heavier the hides, the longer the liming required.
So far as we now know, liming the land is the cheapest and surest way of overcoming the sourness.
Heavy liming of an acid soil pays when a seeding to permanent pasture is made, and old sods on land unfit for tillage may be given a new life by a dressing.
The chief purpose of liming land is to provide a base with which acid may combine, so that the soil may be friendly to plant life.
Liming is not recommended for potatoes because it furnishes conditions favorable to a disease which attacks this crop.
Liming must form the foundation of a new order of things.
The most satisfactory liming is done where the expense is light enough to justify the free use of material.
A serious drawback to the liming of land is the transportation charge that must be paid where no available stone can be found in the region.
The cost of liming to improve the physical condition of land is prohibitive for most farms remote from supplies of stone that can be burned and put upon the land at a low price per ton.
All this means, of course, large outlay, and the farmer has expended not less than six thousand pounds in building, and in draining and liming four hundred acres of the eight hundred he occupies.
For there is plenty of bog-land less than four feet in depth, and this alone is worth draining and liming at present.
Draining and liming are all that bog-land requires to yield immediate crops.
A curious instance of the effect of not liming the land is supplied on one of the fields newly reclaimed by Mr. Hegarty.
Some of the best farmers in our County commenced liming when the lime cost 25 cts.
It is evident that lime neither assisted nor interfered with the absorption of ammonia, and hence the beneficial effect of liming on such soils must be accounted for on some other supposition.
After the usual soaking a short and sharp liming is given.
The hides after a short liming in sulphide limes are immersed in warm water, which greatly accelerates both the chemical and bacterial actions.
As goatskins are so tight fibred, a longer liming and a greater loss of collagen is permissible than with most pelts for chrome.
If sufficient sulphide be used to make the liming very short, then the grease is not "killed" (saponified or emulsified).
The liming should also be shorter for glace than for moroccos, and this is attained both by using a greater proportion of sulphide and by using mellower lime liquors, preferably the latter, as soft pelts are better ensured.
Liming has much the same action on hide pieces, etc.
For these purposes the skins receive a mellow liming of 2-1/2 - 3 weeks.
Even a stronger liming may be given, especially if the soaking is unusually prolonged.
After liming the soaked, softened and plumped stock is washed as thoroughly as possible.
After limingthe skins are unhaired and fleshed, and placed in clean strong limes until sold to the tanner.
There is little doubt that a mellow liming is desirable, but this can be secured by blending some old lime liquors with fresh lime liquor in a systematic manner.
The liming and bating are somewhat similar to dressing leather, though a shorter liming with sulphides and a milder bating would be in order.
Liming eggs was formerly more popular than it is to-day.
Water glass: This is exactly the same as liming except that the solution used is made by mixing ten per cent.
There are still two large limingplants in this country and several in Canada.
Apparently the reclaimed land which you speak of needs liming to overcome the acidity in the soil.
Marling and liming are again practised, new agricultural implements and manures introduced, and the new crops more widely used.
Other essential conditions of success will commonly include the liberal application of potash and phosphatic manures, and sometimes chalking or liming for the leguminous crop.
Lime should not be slaked too long before using, as it absorbs carbonic acid from the atmosphere, whereby carbonate of lime is formed, and this is useless for liming cloth.
As a rule, warps are not limed, but the adoption of the liming would assist the bleaching.
After the cloth leaves the singeing or grey wash, as it is often called, it passes through the liming machine, which is made very similar to the washing machine.
Modern research has shown that the buildings at Liming were so arranged as to contain a convent of monks as well as of nuns.
Whether Eadburg of Thanet is identical with St Eadburga buried at Liming (comp.
A well lying to the east of the church at Liming is to this day called St Ethelburga's well, and she is commonly held to be identical with Queen Aethelburg[244].
If this process is to be used for unhairing and liming effect, the goods must be first subjected to a putrid soak to loosen the hair, and afterwards limed.
Consequently, the liming is longer and mellower; puering, bating or some bacterial substitute always follows; the tannage is much shorter; and mellow materials are used.
For lighter leathers from 3 to 6 weeks' liming is given, and a fresh lime is never used.
Generally speaking, the goods have a longer and mellowerliming and bating, the lime being more thoroughly removed than for the leathers previously described, to produce greater pliability, and everything must tend in this direction.
For softer and more pliable leathers, such as are required for harness and belting, a "lower" or mellower liming is given, and the time in the limes is increased from 9 to 12 days.
Sufficient proof of the fact that it is not the lime which causes skins to unhair is found in the process of chemical liming patented by Payne and Pullman.
Secondly, the processes of liming and marling the soil were known, and by these means the necessary calcium carbonate was supplied.
Simkhovitch says: It is not within our province to go into agrotechnical details and describe what the medieval farmer knew, but seldom practiced for lack of time and poor means of communication, in the way of liming sour clay ground, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liming" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
