 | Thomas Antisell - Industrial arts - 1852 - 728 pages
...the clear ley for evaporation. On this continent, where timber is in many places an incumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids, and...a moderate quantity of water is then poured on the moss, and some quicklime is stirred in. After standing for a few hours, so as to take up the soluble... | |
 | G.P. Putnam & Co - 1852 - 728 pages
...the clear ley for evaporation. On this continent, where timber is in many places an ineumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids, and...cisterns, having a plug at the bottom of one of the sides nnder a false bottom ; a moderate quantity of water is then poured on the mass, and some quicklime... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1853 - 1034 pages
...decanting off the clear lye for evaporation. In America, where timber is in many places an incumbranee upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids, and...are put into wooden cisterns, having a plug at the button) of one of the sides under a false bottom ; a moderate quantity of water is then pouri'd on... | |
 | Francis Peyre Porcher - Botany - 1863 - 644 pages
...Manufactures, art. Potash, p. 457, says: In America, where timber is in many places an incumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids and burned,...poured on the mass, and some quick-lime is stirred in ; after standing for a few hours, so as to take up the soluble matter, the clear liquor is drawn off,... | |
 | Francis Peyre Porcher - Botany - 1863 - 640 pages
...In America, where timber is in many places an inoumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up iu pyramids and burned, solely with a view to the manufacture...poured on the mass, and some quick-lime is stirred in ; after standing for a few hours, so as to take up the soluble matter, the clear liquor is drawn off,... | |
 | Andrew Ure - Industrial arts - 1867 - 1144 pages
...decanting off the clear lye for evaporation. In America, where timber is in many places an incumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids, and burned, solely with a view to the manufacture of potash. The ashes are put into wooden cisterns, having a plug at the bottom of one of the sides under... | |
 | Francis Peyre Porcher - Technology & Engineering - 1869 - 804 pages
...Manufactures, art. Potash, p. 457, says: In America where timber is in many places an incuinbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids and burned,...poured on the mass, and some quicklime is stirred in; after standing for a few hours, so as to take up the soluble matter, the clear liquor is drawn off,... | |
 | Francis Peyre Porcher - 1869 - 820 pages
...Manufactures, art. Potash, p. 457, says: In America where timber is in many places an incumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids and burned,...solely with a view to the manufacture of potashes. Tho ashes are put into wooden cisterns having a plug at the bottom of one of the sides under a false... | |
 | John Yeats - Commerce - 1870 - 486 pages
...costs the labour of felling and hauling. In many parts of America, where timber is an encumbrance on the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids, and burned, solely with a view to the manufacture of this product. Potash is a very considerable article of commerce. Russia produces annually over 300,000... | |
 | Peter Lund Simmonds - Commercial products - 1873 - 508 pages
...purposes. In North America, Russia, Tasmania, and other places, where timber is an incumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids, and burned, solely with the view to the manufacture of potash. The ashes, when the heaps are consumed, must be sifted ; and... | |
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In America, where timber is in many places an incumbrance upon the soil, it is felled, piled up in pyramids and burned, solely .with a view to the manufacture of potashes. The ashes are put into wooden cisterns having a plug at the bottom of one of the... 
