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Example sentences for "bluestone"

Lexicographically close words:
blues; blueskins; bluest; bluestem; bluestocking; bluet; bluets; bluey; bluff; bluffed
  1. For dyeing with logwood and copperas or bluestone the process is not a good one, as it does not give as full shades as by the ordinary process.

  2. These dyes are mixtures of logwood, fustic or other dye-stuff with copperas, bluestone and oxalic acid, and only require adding to water to make the dye-bath.

  3. The last time Philip saw Summers he was hammering bluestone by the roadside.

  4. In planting an almond orchard would it be of any benefit to dip the young trees in a solution of bluestone and lime dissolved?

  5. If done at all the dip should be carefully prepared in accordance with the formula for bordeaux mixture, for excess of bluestone will kill roots.

  6. The formula may be varied according to conditions, using from 3 to 8 pounds of bluestone to 50 gallons of water and an equal or slight excess of lime.

  7. Put the bluestone in a sack and hang it so it will be suspended just under the surface of a barrel of water over night, or dissolve in hot water.

  8. Fill the spray tank half full of water, add one gallon of bluestone solution for each pound required, then strain in the lime and the remainder of the water and stir thoroughly.

  9. The most common solutions for pickling wheat seed are bluestone (copper sulphate) 1-1/2 lb.

  10. The landowner provides the land ready for the plough, fenced and cleared; the seed wheat, and bluestone for pickling same; bags and twine for his share of the crop.

  11. Another method is to place the seed wheat, either loose or in bags, in elevated casks or troughs made out of hollow logs, and pour the bluestone solution over it.

  12. Bordeaux mixture is used in strengths varying from three to five pounds each of bluestone and lime in fifty gallons of water, but the former is usually sufficient.

  13. Place the bluestone in an old fertilizer or meal sack and suspend it about midway in the barrel of water.

  14. When Columbus, with his toy boats, was blundering around the West Indies, the crouching man was camping under the bluestone ledges of old Pike County, Pennsylvania.

  15. It is here in the mountains of Pike County, Pennsylvania, where the bluestone is stratified in horizontal layers, that one may study the camp from its very birth to the latest and finished product of this century.

  16. The Hudson River Bluestone Company exhibited a piece of wall built into the base of the pyramidal stand holding the sandstone cubes.

  17. Fayetteville Crude gypsum Plaster of paris Land plaster James Nevins & Son, Walton Bluestone New York State School of Clay Working and Ceramics, Alfred Silver medal Clay products New York Hydraulic Pressed Brick Co.

  18. Bolivar Oil sand and crude oil Vossler Bros & Quick, Alma Crude oil Warsaw Bluestone Co.

  19. From the mouth of Great Sandy they would ascend that river, and by the way of Bluestone fall over on the Roanoke and New river.

  20. Crossing New river below the Horse-shoe, they descended it to the mouth of Wolf creek; and ascending this to its source, passed over to the head of Bluestone river; where they delayed another week awaiting the arrival of Capt.

  21. Folks between the heads o' Bluestone an' Clinch so skeered they prob'ly won't stay to lay by their corn.

  22. On reaching the Bluestone we halted while the savages collected their horses.

  23. It was a great relief to reach the Bluestone and prepare for action.

  24. A few rods farther out toward the middle of the valley and nearer the Bluestone than the unoccupied cabin, were the four walls of what had been intended for a fort.

  25. Bluestone and Fagg I will call them--I was to be sent with full explanations.

  26. These we send to-day, by registered post, direct to Bluestone and Fagg.

  27. Johnson)] When much spraying is to be done it is more convenient to keep the bluestone and lime in separate permanent stock solutions, as shown in Fig.

  28. Strain both the lime milk and the copper sulphate or bluestone solution through a brass strainer of 18 meshes per inch and dilute each with half the water before mixing together.

  29. As he ran Alex further thought out his plans, and once more at the station, he placed the kettle on the office stove, emptied the bluestone into it, and poked up the fire.

  30. Get a stick, sir, and stir the bluestone in the kettle.

  31. Say," said Saunders, "perhaps some of the other fellows on the wire have bluestone and the other stuff, and could make a battery!

  32. Two people should work together and pour the milk of lime and the bluestone solution together so that the streams mix in pouring.

  33. It was thick and wickedly blue, for it had been mixed with bluestone to preserve it until required by the billposters.

  34. The contents of that can leaped up into the air, water, flour, bluestone and all, and for the next few seconds Manager Snowden was the central figure in the little drama.

  35. Henry will show you how much bluestone to put in.

  36. Bluestone with white patches or crusts should be rejected.

  37. In making up the solution only clear blue crystals of bluestone should be used.

  38. It is better first to dissolve the bluestone in 2 or 3 quarts of boiling water, then add the remaining quantity of cold water, and mix thoroughly.

  39. Medicinal treatment for tapeworms in cattle is usually unsatisfactory, but the bluestone treatment used for stomach worms and mentioned above (p.

  40. For use on cattle the bluestone and tobacco mixture may be prepared as follows: 13 ounces of snuff or powdered tobacco is soaked over night in about 8 gallons of water.

  41. The bluestone and tobacco mixture described on page 524 may be of value in the treatment of hookworms in cattle.

  42. From results obtained at the Oklahoma Experiment Station in the treatment of tapeworms of sheep it would appear that the efficacy of the bluestone treatment against these parasites may be increased by the addition of tobacco.

  43. According to the Oklahoma Experiment Station, the addition of 1 per cent of tobacco to the bluestone solution used in the treatment of stomach worms in sheep is effective in the removal of hookworms.

  44. It is especially important that the bluestone and water be accurately weighed and measured, and that the size of the dose be graduated according to the age of the animal.

  45. That big fellow down there--I call him Simon--he's got one of those bluestone pipe bowls that you told about.

  46. I might have bought my bluestone pipe if I'd had time.

  47. When the lime and the bluestone have dissolved, pour the two liquids into a third vessel.

  48. Do you know of any one who uses bluestone for wheat smut?

  49. All necessary bluestone sills, cellar steps, and copings, fine tooled brownstone steps for stoops, also fine tooled brownstone sills for the doors and windows above cellar.

  50. Chimney cap to be of bluestone in one piece, holes for flues cut in.

  51. This consists of a mixture of sulphate of copper (bluestone or blue vitriol) and fresh slaked lime, in the proportion of 3ΒΌ lb.

  52. Before using, the raffia should be washed quickly in a stream of water in order to remove the bluestone which has crystallized on the outside and which might corrode the graft.

  53. This is done by steeping the bundles of raffia in a three per cent solution of bluestone for a few hours and then hanging them up to dry.

  54. And as for a bluestone road--well, you, reader, may think bluestone is but a simple thing and an inexpensive one.

  55. So Serjeant Bluestone had said to the lawyers who were acting with him; and Mr. Goffe, though he did himself think that this marriage would be the best thing in the world, could not differ from the Serjeant.

  56. Mrs. Bluestone would not admit that there was any reason why her visitor should not continue to live in Bedford Square as long as the arrangement suited Lady Lovel.

  57. Mrs. Bluestone had answered, and had then gone on to show that it would lead to that which would stop the learned gentleman.

  58. The coming visit had been discussed in all its bearings, and it had been settled that Mrs. Bluestone should be with the daughter when the mother arrived.

  59. In her straits she went to Serjeant Bluestone for advice.

  60. Mrs. Bluestone had been told, while walking to Keppel Street with the young lady, of the purport of the letter and of the invitation given to Daniel Thwaite.

  61. Mrs. Bluestone was a lady with most intimately confidential friends,--but she was sworn to secrecy.

  62. Alice Bluestone in their daily conversations spoke of the tailor, or rather of this promise to the tailor, with a horror which at any rate was not affected.

  63. Alice Bluestone shrank within herself when she was told by this daughter of a countess of such a deed.

  64. Some day or two after this Serjeant Bluestone sent a message up to Lady Anna, on his return home from the courts, with a request that she would have the great kindness to come down to him in his study.


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