basic slag

Basic slag is another by-product of industrial processes that has become scarce due to changed methods.

The land is made from thousands of tons of basic slag from blast furnaces.

Thomas discovered this 'Basic slag' could be useful and profitable as a phosphate fertiliser.

If the soil is acid or lacking in phosphate, lime or basic slag should be applied to ensure a good establishment of clovers.

Nevertheless basic slag is an artificially produced fertilizer, and its acceptance by organic farmers who reject 'artificials', poses a dilemma.

A neutral soil of pH6 is ideal, and the addition of ground limestone, calcified seaweed, slaked lime, and/or basic slag may be needed to achieve this.

Basic slag is a byproduct of steelmaking using the basic version of the Bessemer process or the Linz-Donawitz process.

Clovers are encouraged by a neutral pH (through periodic liming), by a correct phosphate balance (through applications of basic slag), and by plenty of sunlight.

A contract with ICI for storage of basic slag in 1963 enabled expansion of the business, and it became a limited company: Eddie Stobart Ltd in November 1970 with a share value of ten thousand pounds.

Lime (to keep the pH near 6 and replace the calcium sold off in milk) and basic slag (to replace the phosphorus and other elements exported in animal bones) can be applied by contractor relatively cheaply to all but the steepest fields.

Between 1882 and 1894 he was also chairman of the Basic & Dephosphorizing Patents Co., which was set up to safeguard the many patentees with interests in the dephosphorization process and the agricultural disposal of the phosphorus-rich basic slag.

When we got the Hill Farm Subsidy and we were obliged to spend a certain part of it in putting something back in the soil, uncle liked Middleton Lime, so he spread a bit of that around along with basic slag, and cow manure, of course.

He took over the collection of basic slag (a waste product of steelworks used as fertiliser) when local company Harrison Ivinson went out of business, and purchased two Ford Thames Trader trucks which were also painted in his favourite colours with his logo on the doors.