1911. 
<THED RURAL, NEW-YORKER 
483 
SLAKING A CARLOAD OF LIME. 
IF. H. P., Mumford, N. 1'.—What is the 
most practical way to .slake a carload of 
quicklime? I wish to put it on at the rate 
of 1,000 to 1,500 pounds per acre. How 
can it be distributed evenly? If put on 
with a drill it will have to be screened. 
It is not an easy matter success¬ 
fully to slake quicklime for use on the 
land, and be sure of having it applied 
in. just the condition one wants it. We 
have tried depositing a carload of quick¬ 
lime in a temporary shed, and adding to 
it enough water to hydrate or water- 
slake it. Most of the lime crumbled sat¬ 
isfactorily, swelling up, of course, and 
this bulged the side walls of the shed. 
But the worst difficulty was in spread¬ 
ing it. It would be a big undertaking 
to screen a carload of water-slaked 
lime, so that it could be successfully 
handled in a lime spreader, or even a 
fertilizer drill. Our men tried to spread 
it from wagons, but the fine • powdered 
lime which they inhaled, and which clung 
to their necks, faces a»’ * hands, made 
the job almost unbearable. Hydrated 
lime is quite caustic in contact with the 
human skin, and the successful way to 
handle it on the land must be without 
getting the man who handles it into thfl 
dust that it makes. 
We have not tried spreading lime with 
a manure spreader, although I would 
expect that it could be successfully 
handled in that way under some circum¬ 
stances. The manure spreader would 
have to have a layer of straw or other 
litter in the bottom on which to place a 
few inches of the lime for spreading. By 
weighing the amount of lime put into 
the spreader and adjusting the spreader 
to a certain number of loads per acre, 
one could apply the amount of lime re¬ 
quired. 
It should be remembered that in hy¬ 
drating lime takes up 18 pounds of water 
for every 56 pounds of quicklime. This 
is approximately one-third of the weight 
of quicklime added to it in water. The 
most practical way we have found to 
handle quicklime and get it distributed 
in finely divided form on the land de¬ 
pends somewhat upon weather conditions. 
One should attempt to put the lime on 
the land when there seems to be a pros¬ 
pect of at least three days of weather 
without rain. To put on 1,000 pounds 
per acre, the quicklime may be placed in 
the field in piles averaging 25 pounds 
each, and two rods apart each way. .This 
will make 40 piles to the acre. It will 
take good judgment in driving and in 
shoveling out the lime to do this. The 
moisture of the air will gain access to 
the lime placed in small piles quite 
readily, and as a result it will slake and 
crumble in a very few days, depending, 
of course, upon the dryness of the air. 
I have seen it slake quite thoroughly in 
five days of very dry weather. One 
should watch the sky and plan to have 
the piles spread, even though not com¬ 
pletely slaked, before a shower comes 
on. Usually there is at least a light 
breeze blowing. The man who spreads 
the lime should use a long-handled 
shovel, and keep on the windward side 
of the lime he is spreading. With the 
piles two rods apart it is a comparatively 
easy matter to spread each pile over an 
area one rod in each direction from the 
pile. Should the lime be soaked by rain 
before it is spread it is likely to become 
pasty and difficult to spread. A light 
shower on the lime piles is not likely 
to spoil them for good, spreading. To 
spread 1,500 pounds per acre one should 
increase the size of the piles a little, so 
that there will be from 35 to 40 pounds 
in a pile. I know of no more practical 
way to apply fresh burned lime to the 
land than this. There are a few lime 
manufacturers who grind up their quick¬ 
lime so that it may be spread with a 
distributer. The grinding of the lime, 
of course, increases the price per ton 
one must pay for it. edw. r. minns. 
One of the best ways to slake lump 
quicklime, wanted for immediate use on 
the land, is to..place it in a large pile 
handy to a water supply, and to water- 
slake it. The pile should be built up 
four to five feet high, and a hole left in 
the middle of the top. Pour water into 
this hole so that it will settle well down 
into the pile. This will develop a heavy 
steam that will penetrate the pile. Care 
should be taken not to add too much 
water, or it will make a paste. It is 
better to add water a second time when 
necessary. If the steam does not reach 
the edges of the pile the lumps there can 
be slaked by sprinkling with water by 
means of a water can. If the lime can 
be placed on the soil several weeks be¬ 
fore it is needed it may be slaked in 
small piles where it is to be spread. The 
lumps should be placed in piles of a 
bushel or two, so distributed over the 
field as to give the quantities per acre 
that are wanted, and then the piles be 
covered with soil to shed off rain. By 
opening into a pile every few days it will 
be possible to tell when the lumps have 
crumbled. If the piles are left uncov¬ 
ered, and heavy rain occurs, it is likely 
to make a pasty mass that will not 
spread. • chas. s. phei.ps. 
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