The smell of house drains is oftentimes exceedingly offensive, but may be completely prevented by pouring down them a mixture of lime water, and the ley of wood ashes, or suds that have been used in washing.
Salt and water, or a ley of wood ashes, poured into worm-holes on a gravel walk, will effectually destroy them.
Take some well-burnt lime, and expose it to the air till it falls to powder, without putting any water to it, and mix with it two thirds of wood ashes, and one third of fine sand.
Hot drops, } If the parts are exceedingly painful, wash with a weak lie, or wood ashes, or sal soda.
First wash the body with a strong lie of wood ashes or weak saleratus water, then with an infusion of lobelia.
There is available in my neighborhood a free supply of wood ashes.
Is there any harm to vegetable growing to dig sufficient of wood ashes in for mellowing heavy soil?
They do not act as wood ashes do, because they do not contain soluble alkali.
These nitrates are neutral salts and do not act on manure as caustic lime or wood ashes would do.
Match rope may be formed by boiling the rope in water, containing three pounds of wood ashes, one pound of quicklime, two pounds of the liquor of horse-dung, and one pound of saltpetre.
After this, a bushel of wood ashesis added, and the tubs are then filled with the plaster.
The lixiviation of the nitrous substances, and the use of wood ashes, or potash itself, will produce saltpetre.
The earth in some caves does not require half this quantity of wood ashes to decompose the earthy salts.
If you are troubled to get soft water for washing, fill a tub or barrel half full of wood ashes, and fill it up with water, so that you may have ley whenever you may want it.
Early in spring give another digging, and then work in a good supply of decayed manure, together with grit, charcoal, wood ashes, or other material that will help to render the soil rich and free.
A compost consisting of two parts loam, one part leaf-soil or well-decayed manure, with a small quantity of wood ashes, will suit Peas admirably.
The use of wood ashes, well raked in immediately in advance of sowing, will prove highly beneficial to the crop, for the Pea is a potash-loving plant.
There seems to be an almost universal endorsement of well-rotted stable manure, and next in favor is wood ashes.
Wood ashes is rich in potash, and is particularly valuable with potatoes, fruits of all kinds, etc.
The black flea on very young plants can be conquered with air-slacked lime or wood ashes.
Wood ashes appealed to people, especially in an early day in our agriculture, partly because the ashes were so universally present that tests had been made voluntarily and otherwise in millions of instances.
It has been generally known, however, that lime in peculiarly effective form is in wood ashes, and the favor in which ashes have been held rested not a little upon the curious preference for an organic source of all soil amendments.
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