Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1870 — To Make Whitewash of Different Colors. [ARTICLE]

To Make Whitewash of Different Colors.

Takb of good nnslaeked lime half a bushel; slack with warm water (rain water if convenient) in & forty-five gallon barrel. Keep" covered while slacking. Dae just enough water ,to slack dry. liet the lime stand four or five hours to insure it being well slacked. If it Ts desirable to have a good, smooth wash, the slacked lime should be sifted through a moderately fine Sieve; if to be used on barns, outbuildings and fences; 5* is not material about sifting. To the lime thus prepared add enough water to fill the barrel half full; then add two gallons of flour starch, hot; one quart of grease (to make it run smooth); four pounds of melted roein, hot. to make it stick. The flour starch will also have the same effect.' borne use salt in making whitewash. I would not, as salt in damp weather causes, the wash to crack and scale off Stock, also, will lick it oft'. 1 have had the whole Side of a barn licked clean by stock in using tolt. , After preparing thewhkewadbas above, fill your barrel, with water, cold or hot, it matters not, and, yo« will b&ve„» wash that will stand quite well fdf five years. To color dafk or date, ttae lampblack; sot yellow, rise yeltew ochre; tor blue, useindigo; tor different shades of 'color, vary to suit. If the wash gets £ too thick, as it will, make It thin with water. I make it a rule Uaput in one bucket of water to every three taken out The older the above whitewash becomes the better it will be,"provided it i* kept, covered with water, and not allowed to become drymnd-feard—.fitofcwHto