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When applied unleached at the rate of 50 bushels per acre and leached at the rate of 200 bushels, the results are usually very marked in stimulating growth in clover.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas

Leeched ashes are a valuable manure, but not equal to unleached.

From Soil Culture by Walden, J. H.

Composition of Ashes, leached and unleached, showing their manurial value:   Oak unleached.

From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)

They furnish potash finely divided and soluble, especially when applied in the unleached form.

From Clovers and How to Grow Them by Shaw, Thomas

Animal Bone.—The original source of phosphoric acid as a fertilizer was animal bone, just as hard-wood, unleached ashes were the source of potash.

From Crops and Methods for Soil Improvement by Agee, Alva