potashes

Canada has been the principal source of supply of this form of potash; hence the commercial name of Montreal potashes.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

Quantity of potash obtained from 1000 lb. of different kinds of vegetation in the manufacture of potashes 220

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Dr Bowring was regarded as a prodigy of polyglot learning, because he gave us some very imperfect versions of Russian ballads; and we were thankful even for that contribution, from which, we doubt not, many worthy and well-informed people learned for the first time that Russia produced poets as well as potashes.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844 Various

Here our bargemen obtained our permission to return up the river; and we embarked in another barge, deeply laden with potashes, passengers, and luggage.

The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition. Anonymous

The quantity of potash obtainable from various plants in the manufacture of potashes on a large scale is illustrated by the following statements.

Manures and the principles of manuring Charles Morton Aikman

Potatoes are much better steamed with their skins on than boiled, as they then retain all the potashes.

The Golden Age Cook Book Henrietta Latham Dwight

Practically the only alkaline products now in use are the various hard and soft soaps, and the carbonates of soda and potash in their various forms of soda ash, soda crystals, potashes, pearl ash, etc. Ammonia and its compounds are rarely used, while stale urine, which acts in virtue of the ammonia it contains has practically gone out of use.

The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech

Bathe the feet frequently in lukewarm water, with a little salt or potashes dissolved in it.

Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

He urged a varied planting and the making of pitch and tar, pipe-staves, potashes, iron, and bay-salt, and warned the planters against "building their plantation wholly on smoke."

England in America, 1580-1652 Lyon Gardiner Tyler 1894

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.

Resources of the Southern Fields and Forests, Medical, Economical, and Agricultural. Being also a Medical Botany of the Confederate States; with Practical Information on the Useful Properties of the Trees, Plants, and Shrubs 1863