122 FARM BUILDINGS. 6. 



TjUl it inftead of water, wet f and be ufed ill 

 Caking the lime; (piling it with the lime- 

 in- ftone, layer for layer, and covering up 

 the heap with it ;) thole evils are avoided : 

 no part is ruper:raturated, nor are any gra- 

 nules formed by the adtion of the outward 

 air. 



Bef.des, anothergreat advantage isobrain- 

 ed by fl.king the lime, in this m.anncr, 

 v.'i:h the f^nd with which it is Intended to be 

 incorporated. Ihe two ingredients, by ber 

 iiig, perhaps, repeatedly turned over ; and 

 by p^vi^ing through the fieve together •, ne- 

 ceffdiily become intimately blended ; more 

 intimately, perhaps, than they could be 

 mixed by any other procefs equally fimple. 

 It thi; fand be ivafJoed (and all fand mixed 

 with lime for cement ought to be waflied) 

 the labour of preparation is by this method 

 of flaking the Umc confiderably leflcned, 



But in the preparation of cement, slak- 

 i>JG THE LIME makcs only one ftage of the 

 procefs; MIXING the ingredients intimate- 

 W, and uniting them clofely together into 

 one compadl homogeneous mafs,is an opera- 

 tion which requires the ftritteft attention. 



