To insure the proper action of whatever manures are used and to secure healthy crops, an application of slaked quicklime, at the rate of fourteen to twenty pounds per square rod, is strongly recommended.
The lime, which must be freshly burnt quicklime, is then slaked in another vessel and thoroughly stirred with two or three gallons of water until it is of the consistency of thin cream.
Numerous experiments have shown that slaked lime can be relied on to destroy the spores of Finger-and-toe in infested land.
The sprinkling of slaked lime over the seedlings is at once a safe and an efficient process, and possesses the additional advantage of being beneficial to the plant.
As slugs and snails are particularly partial to the young plants, an occasional dusting of old soot, slaked lime, or any gritty substance should be given to render the leaves unpalatable to these pests.
If a damp cellar must be used, air slaked lime sprinkled under the boards will help to keep them dry.
Air slaked lime is also good, but would have to be applied several times.
The lime should be slaked and then enough water added to make twenty-five gallons of milk of lime.
While the hydrated is very nice to use it did not possess the adhesive quality that the regular slaked lime did, and it would wash off the trees and take the vitriol solution with it, and we discontinued its use.
I read of somebody using fifty pounds of lime to the acre, slaked lime, and 100 pounds of sulphur to the acre in a strawberry bed, and he killed the insects.
But we found this difficulty as between slaked lime and the hydrated lime.
If any rot is found, remove the affected bulbs, and if those remaining appear damp, dust lightly with air-slaked lime.
The quick-lime is then slaked with the requisite quantity of water; the product is passed through a fine-meshed wire sieve and is spread in layers of 2 or 3 in.
Where now the corn and grass grows rank, Where now the white mens cattle come to drink At spring or stream where once the buffalo And deer and Indian pony slaked their thirst?
For now the corn and grass grows rank And now the white mens cattle come to drink At spring and stream where once the buffalo And deer and Indian ponyslaked their thirst.
So Sir Percival helped him to descend a narrow path that led to a stream of water that flowed beneath the bridge; and there the knight stooped and slaked his thirst.
And Sir Launcelot stooped and slaked his thirst, which was very furious and hot.
Fortunately the fountain was close at hand, and he often slaked his burning thirst at it.
Arrived there, the twoslaked their thirst together, and then Jarwin sat down to enjoy a pipe, and Cuffy lay down to suffer the well-merited reward of gluttony.
Arsenic sulphide (realgar) is slaked with the lime for the production of the finer light leathers, such as glace kid and glove kid.
The tincture which resulted from this operation was separated by expression, filtered, and treated with slaked lime.
Wood ashes and air-slaked lime, sprinkled upon the plants while the leaves are moist from either rain or dew, afford almost complete protection.
All of these produce caterpillars, which can be destroyed either by application of air-slaked lime, or by removing the leaves infested and crushing the intruders under foot.
As soon as the young plants appear, sprinkle them with air-slaked lime.
Common air-slaked lime is almost pure carbonate of lime, and hence comes nearer to the composition of marine shells than lime from bones, and, being much cheaper, would appear to be preferable.
The menslaked their thirst with the turbid water of the Klip River, and munched a makeshift biscuit made of Indian corn and starch.
It consists of 1 part orpiment and 6 parts of lime slaked to a powder.
His long beard had fallen into the water, and when he had slaked his thirst and attempted to rise, he found himself held fast by it.
When the Princess hadslaked her thirst, she mounted her horse and resumed her journey, and being gentle and forgiving, she soon forgot the maid's rudeness.
Glad to show a kindness to one old and infirm, she held the pitcher while the woman slaked her thirst.
Air-slaked lime is simply quicklime which has taken from the air a gas called carbon dioxide.
Paris green mixed with air-slaked lime will also kill many larvæ.
Water-slaked lime is quicklime to which water has been added.
When air-slaked lime is used it may be spread broadcast in the spring; the other forms should be applied in the fall or in the early winter.
For pastures or meadows air-slaked lime is used as a top-dressing.
To the sense of sin, to the sense of sorrow, to the conscience never wholly stifled, to the desires after good never utterly eradicated and never slaked by aught besides itself, does this mighty word come.
Ten bushels of quick lime, slaked with water or salt-brine previous to use, is enough for a cord of muck.
Experiments 7 and 8 show, that slaked lime has more effect than the carbonate, as we should anticipate.
The plants served thus as tests of the chemical effect of carbonate of lime, of slaked lime, and of salt and lime mixture, on the peat.
The quantity of slaked lime that is consumed in purifying, is therefore much greater than is needed for coal-gas, and is an expensive item in the making of peat-gas.
This substance was also often used by itself, being first slaked with water, and using the milk of lime thus formed, after cooling.
When chemical action between the water and carbide has ceased, and gas bubbles have stopped forming, slaked lime is all that is left of the dark gray crystals which were put into the water.
The slaked lime, formed while the gas was generated, collects at the bottom of the tanks and is removed from time to time.
Bleaching powder is a substance prepared by the action of chlorine gas on dry slaked lime, resulting in the formation of a compound which has the property of bleaching or "whitening" vegetable matters.
These tanks are filled with water and a known quantity of slaked lime.
This substance is prepared on a large scale by allowing chlorine gas to act upon dry slaked lime.
There upon mats and skins they reposed, and on cakes of the maize-ear Feasted, and slaked their thirst from the water-gourd of the teacher.
All their lives long, with the unleavened bread And bitter herbs of exile and its fears, The wasting famine of the heart they fed, And slaked its thirst with marah of their tears.
The goddess approached, and kneeling on the bank would have slaked her thirst in the cool stream, but the rustics forbade her.
The traveller slaked His thirst from rill or gushing fount, and thanked The Naiad.
Hereat the lads fell to crying aloud, "Send up to us the stones and the mud and the slaked lime that we may build a bower for King Pharaoh, forasmuch as here we stand the whole day idle.
The other is the dry water-slaked lime made by using only enough water to slake the quick-lime, but not enough to leave it wet.
When the hard "stone" lime becomes air-slaked it is evident to the eye from the change to a loose powdery mass.
The lime should be fresh quick-lime and when slaked must always be covered with water to exclude the air.
