Millard County Chronicle | 1913-04-03 | Page 8 | Making Hard Water Soft

v MAKING HARD WATER SOFT Addition of Propsr Quantity of Quick lims Will Bring It to th Dsslrsd Condition. Many well watr have from 1(1 to H d'Kres of hardness, while t-ven river and lake water may hav. trom 6 to 25 dfrws. Hardness U usually duo to the presence of raminmnda of lime and msanesla dissolved rut of th r.oll and n!8 The l,;,u- ulfa do most of the datnnK" by c-ii.illn the soap and preventing It a rhnnslng action. The curdled soap rT.i?liia In the water, stlrks to the fiber? of the cloth, and la very dlff.cult to rrnove by wsshlng, rvrn vl'lt hot wa'er. Water of ten dryw of hardness will prevent the action of at ventwn pounds of noap per thousand gallon! of water, while water of twenty de-Kreex de-Kreex of hardness will prevent the action of thirty four ntin-ta of soap per thousand fallens of .trr. Much of thft hardueM of n- :-r may foe removed by the addition of two pound of quick llmo to ono thoinand gallona of water of iivernKP lisrd neaa. This will not remove tv.ore than about three quarters of tli hard-I hard-I neas of th water, but It can bj still j further softened by adding a little washing soda,