Rensselaer Union, Volume 1, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1869 — FABM AND HOUSEHOLD. [ARTICLE]

FABM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Cheap Faint for Barns.* No paint, wc believe, withstahds "'the tooth of time" better than Venetian red. There arc houses in sflnw country towns painted red go Ibtqf a time ago that- tWfe memory of man runneth not "to the. contrary, and they look fresh to this flay. Tift: wood is admirably preserved, and appears as Uiough it would npt need another c-mt of paint for a quarter of (I century to come. But, then, who would buyy S'u-h a color on house or barn, sojue people would say ? To our eye it docs net l(x>k badly when the trimmings receive a, shade somewhat different from tke body of thp building. In point of eoonommH>ere?» probably nothing better. We would not shpek tnc taste, of any one by j»d,vi»sng the uge paint on a house or IU but tiling we could live comfortably in a nouse sopaiuted, all other things being agreeable. For a cheap white, silver or pearl gray “ paint” a correspondent of the JVeir England Farmer, gave a few years ago, the following recipe for making a composition which lie had used and found to be durable, cheap, and econumical t Skim milk, two quarts; ' fresh slacked lime, eight ounces; linseed oil, six ounces; white Burgundy pitch, two ounces;- Spanish whit,, three pounds. The lime bo be slacked in water, exposed to .the air, oad mixed in about one fourth of the milk. The oil in which tlie pitch is previously dissolved to be added a little at a.time; then the rest of the milk, and afterwards the. Spanish white. This quantity is sufficient fiw twenty-seven squave-yards, two coats. If a particle of blue be added, or if this blue be combined' with a slight portion of black, a silver or pearl gray will be obtaiued;;?'he addition of raw -umber' Will maknatufoWj). It will be necessary to keep it stirred the bucket while using. siSfS' | (Petroleum, benzine, etc., have bedfi’tried, for dark paints, with various success. Soirte complain that it dpes not harder; properly. The editor of tire Citditty fUntlefnaii has used petroleum with.good success. Head vises the application of a coat of light petroleum alone first, and then after a lew months give a coat of the heavier petroleum mixed with the ochres or other paint. He has seen such a epat on a barn of six years’ standing, hard and unchanged. It is recommended for roofs as well ns for the sides of buildings.—Acw England Farmer. *