Show durably whitewasher whitewashes White washes amany cheap mixtures of lime milk etc wear quite well under ordinary conditions condition gen le due when lie was commissioner of agriculture told of a country house the body of which was coated with milk aud all d lime paint the cornice frames etc being done in lead and all oil paint after 43 years years he says the body paint was in fair condition though thong li the lead binl had to be renewed several beveral times during that period but bill we must not expect too much front from printas paint as milk and lime make nor indeed from lead and oil paint both lead and lime are carbonates carbo natee and carbonates are never quite and certainly not as durable as oxides like oxide of iron etc 11 hiting is ie a carbonate of lime obtained from chalk and in its best condition i e C when well washed during manufacture it is quite free from caustic tic lime and is a very very good and cheap paint basis being manifestly much better than lime for the purpose lime is advised for chaap milk and oil paint mainly because the advisor visor does not know that whiting though a little costlier double to ample ole dearer is ia I 1 nsf to I 1 comme commercial felat whiting will cost at retail about 14 cents per pound and best gilders gil drs whiting perhaps double but it pays to use the whiting in prefer preference euce cement is sometimes used in milk I 1 paints but it gives s charm grained paint an and d is not quite as ag satisfactory 1 as A ft biting hiting to prepare whiting for paint soak it in wit w er over night and next morning pass through a fine sieve and add skim mills milk to reduce it to a proper consistency if coloring is to be added this should hould be done before straining the whiting ting first soak the dry ailor then add passing all through sieve to get the shade you wish try the paint by putting some on paper and holding it over the stove or lamp to dry this quickly reveals the true color as A n hen dry it will appear much lighter than when wet this paint is good indoors or out though a still better paint for outside exposure poe ure can be made from this i s formula boil together for 30 1 minutes three gallons water awl ami one pint flaxseed flax sped take from fire find and add water to make four gallons and lea ie settle then pour off the water into a pail and add whiting until as thick as whitewash non stir in a half pint of linseed oil and stir thoroughly should the whiting refuse to mix readily add more water glue will do in place of linseed but is not as durable Kal Kalson somines lines so 90 called put U up pin in five or six eix pound packages and costing 0 ten to twelve cents a pound are simply gypsum or 1 whiting preparations aud and excepting the pigments which give them color are worth about two tivo cents a pound equally good results and better belter in the hands of an all amateur are possible ible with whiting home made paints whiting dissolved i 1 or oc lacked over night in water x a ter and a nd boiling water in which it a few pieces of white whit glue is jetter haye been dl dissolved solved poured over and thoroughly mikeil roi eil with it until tit it it if like good cream and applied cold gives a good water paint f for or I 1 inside use on ceilio ceilings s and wall wal Is or even on wood woodwork kyo rk that is not iiii ch us used or e exposed alp oed to wear v car ulue glue is rest est st soaked in a 1 little i t t cold olt 1 water I r and a nd dv when hn it has haa swollen oll le n up all it i it will remove ino it and tid no pour u boileu boiling w ter te r over ner it 1 never ever boil glue tor lor this his purpose I 1 iose ad add d dry co coloring matter to suit ultramarine blue is best bast for div giving ing bluish or nr other with other colors use yellow achre ochre and not chrome yellow for Y yellow I 1 ellow tints raw and burnt sienna raw and burnt umber veneti ait and indian red reds i dry are all sui suitable tIble and permanent pigments for lime or whiting paints jibb j it a I 1 white jab is desired use dry zinc white instead of whiting it will coat several times nore more n ore but for a ceiling cei lingi lini it is is unapproachable proa chable IF does not give a perfect white joo joi but is improved in this respect by adding a little blue to kit kill I 1 the cast lime slacked in sour milk gives a good outside paint or slaked stalked lime thinned with akim milk or with buttermilk and the addition of tallow or any kind of grease irn im proves the tenacity of ruch pain paints ta linseed oil will mix with limewater forming with lime at ai emulsion mul sion paint ordinary Ordin ordinary arv white wash is improved by addition ol 01 ki it should be applied s soon oon after bi blacking a ki g A goad 0 q knotted bristle vhf bg brush r u s h hould ha be used wit all chest water paints pacific rural pres |