The liquid may also be used for scouring floors, or cleaning paint.
The means (to prevent smut) are simple; and no other than immersing the seed in pure water, and repeatedly scouring it therein, just before it is sown or dibbled in.
These Swallows are also abundant about farmyards; except when they are skimming over ponds, they are almost always scouring the air above buildings or fields, at higher elevations than the Barn Swallows.
Throughout the day numbers of them are scouring the air for their fare of insects, but as night approaches, they return to the chimney.
This also served to protect the pipes fromscouring action during rainstorms.
They should be neither too large nor too small, and the grade should neither be too great nor too little, to secure the best flotation and scouring effects and the best flush-wave action under all circumstances.
Though scouring be needfull, yetscouring too mutch, is pride without profit, and robbeth[1] thine hutch.
Soon his left was at Lens, and his cavalry was scouring the country still farther north towards the Lys and the Yser.
Note 2: The scouring of the iron crucible is rendered much easier if it is first heated to bright redness and plunged into cold water.
Note 1: It is obvious that the brass taken for analysis should be untarnished, which can be easily assured, when wire is used, by scouring with emery.
Had enough reading when I was a boy; heard enough psalm-singing, saw enough scrubbing andscouring to last me my lifetime.
This was the first time that he set out scouring the roads for the attainment of independence; and how frequently, yet again and again, was he to start upon fresh campaigns, never wearying, never disheartened!
Before the week was over she had every child of school age who came to the building to see what was going on, scouring out desks, blacking stoves, raking the yard, even cleaning the street before the building.
Carbon disulphide has also been patented, but, as will afterward be shown, the old method of removing it from the wool injured the color and quality of the fiber, so as to make the application of this scouring agent a failure.
The cost of scouring by the new process is about £1 5s.
This tank is necessarily proportioned in size to the number ofscouring machines and the quantity of spent suds to be treated.
For this purpose wooden runnels are placed beneath the rollers, through which the cloth passes in the scouring machine, so as to collect the suds after they have been spent.
The first of these relates to the saving and utilization of the soap used in wool scouring and milling.
I have endeavored to show how economy may be practiced in scouring by the old process with soap, and how one dye stuff may be profitably recovered.
Tebaldo and his men may even now be scouring the streets of Rome for a fugitive, and once in their power all the saints could not save us from our doom.
Both powdered pumice-stone and salt are good for scouring iron or tin articles which are smoked or stained.
Some scouring and polishing will be saved if bright tin and brass utensils and fittings are wrapped in paper.
Put ammonia or borax in the water used, or else rub the glass with whiting, or a scouring soap which is not gritty.
Scouring soap is not intended for direct application.
Whatever material the sink is made of it will need careful cleaning once every day with scouring soap or soap-powder and a scrubbing brush.
Wash them with a brush, good hot soapsuds, and occasional applications of a scouring soap.
Tin articles are light to handle and cheap, but soon become discoloured and require a good deal of scouring to keep them in fair condition.
This is not only good for the sink but for the waste pipes, especially if a pan of hot soapy water is prepared for the scouring and emptied down the pipes when the sink is finished.
We often think, when we see these strong-scented animals scouring the country, that a good beast of chase has been overlooked for the stag.
Their purpose in this was to keep the scouring in check.
We saw some deerscouring the plains, and several "prairie wolves" skulking in the high grass--this animal is sometimes destructive to sheep.
From this time to the 26th the Division halted in the region of the Korannaberg, and the time spent in awaiting supplies was occupied in completelyscouring the surrounding country.
At this time, in accordance with General Bruce-Hamilton's plan of scouring the country towards Petrusburg, his force was split into seven small columns.
He afterwards set about scouring the country in its remotest valleys with flying columns, while Colonel Harley from Ficksburg made similar excursions.
While these energetic movements were going forward General Gilbert Hamilton was scouring the Klerksdorp Ventersdorp district, and Colonel Allenby was searching some almost unassailable positions round the Magaliesberg.
Early in September Colonel Blomfield began a newscouring expedition, moving down the valley of the Umvalosi on to Bethel and Brakfontein.
Still scouring the country he dispersed Boers right and left, and finally returned to Klerksdorp with Colonels Rawlinson and Hickie, while Colonel Williams was directed to Krugersdorp to refit.
The mounted troops were eternally spying and scouring hither and thither, and their activity was not in vain.
His pursuers, divided into several detachments, were scouring the country after him, as the fishermen draw their nets, from bank to bank, conscious that the prey they drive before the meshes cannot escape them at the last.
The Knight and De Fistycuff felt their strength and spirits wonderfully improved at these words, and already they fancied themselves scouring over the plain in pursuit of a thousand flying foes.
They are scouring the clearing now for Christians, and will search all the cabins.
Girty had, perhaps, captured her, and was now scouring the woods for him.
Now and then gazelles, in threes and fours, went scouring away far out of reach.
My first question was, whether any news had been heard of the camels; but I only learned that on the previous day many people had gone in search of them, scouring the country.
The Tuarick whom I had despatched, in scouring the country with his maharee, had found him about eight miles from the camp, lying on the ground, unable to move.
These he employed inscouring the country, and destroying public stores.
In the meantime, Lee and Pickens, who were scouring the country about Hillsborough, received information of Tarleton's recruiting expedition.
Lee was detached to operate with Sumter's brigade on the Congaree, and Colonel Harden with his mounted militia was scouring the country about the Edisto.
While the enemy's works had been thoroughly reconnoitred, light troops and lancers had performed their duty in scouring the neighborhood.
Cow Boys from the British lines were scouring the country, and had recently marauded the neighborhood.
Still, he thought it prudent, in case of treachery, to keep on the watch; and day and night two or three of the party were constantlyscouring the country round, in search of tracks made by strange Indians.
While we were talking we had observed some commotion among the inhabitants of the lodges; and presently we caught sight of a band of horsemen scouring across the prairie towards us, and flourishing their spears as they came along.
From what old Samson had said, I fully expected that the cave would be attacked; for I did not suppose that the Indians, scouring the country, would fail to observe our tracks.
