Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1870 — Petroleum as Faint. [ARTICLE]

Petroleum as Faint.

The New York Evening Post says: “ Crude petroleum ia not only useful for painting buildings, but it is the best preservative for all manner of farm implements, wood or iron. As soon as it becomes dry, any tool may be handled without the least annoyance. For priming when other paint is to be used, petroleum is not only the cheapest, but the best material to be found. We have between three and four hundred garden sashes in use. A portion of these were pointed two years ago with Prince’s mineral paint and linseed oiL This is now so nearly gone that it has been necessary to oil the sashes to keep them from decaying. The others were oiled with petroleum whep new, and afterwards received one coat of the same paint, .which seems now as fresh and solid 1 as when it was first pat on. This ofl costs from twenty-five cents to thirty cents per gallon, and the only precaution necessary in its use is to have no fire about R until it has been spread for a few hours, long enough for. the moet volatile and inflammable parts to haTS evaporated.