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Show I AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT I Material for This Department Is From the Information Service I , of the Utah Agricultural College. If Painting on the Farm I ' And How to Mix Your Red Paint (By A. J. Hansen, Utah Agricultural College.) A traveler. passing through Utah ' topped oe night at a small farm-', ing town. Nc-.t day, : bo loitered; about, he introduced himself to one of 'be farmers. After the usual greet- : ins-, thej chatted awhile, and by and! by the traveler said- "Paint seems to ; be scarce in this locality. ' "Do you 'bink so. "' drawled the farmer "From the looks of things. I certainly do." replied the traveler. Shortly afterwards the 'farmer went; East, on a visit to a relative. On re J turning home, one of the fir?t things he did was to paint hii barn. Then the gossiping neighborhood wondered and wondered why Ezekiel Jenkins j was In such a hurry about that paint ing One day, the most curious of the gossipcrs could no longer restrain himself and so he asked Jenkittl 'hy all this painting, ZeekV" lc been East." came the curt answer. There are still some people in Utah who with profit could follow Jen-kiut' Jen-kiut' example and paint their barns II . While as a rule the dwellings in our state are painted, the outbuildings are 1 almost invariably neglected. Suppose ii ou cannot afford to employ a painter i ben do the work yourself. Do not ( feel timid about It, you can do it if IJ ou only try. If As to color, the mineral red is the j expensive, and by far the most I durable. Then if you trim the build - j ings iu whjte, you will have a good finish of which you may justly be proud. Should you prefer to use a' different color for the shingles, you i may do so. and it will improve the! appearance of the buildings very much. If you select green, be care-1 ful. for some of the gerens on the market arc not reliable, and will invariably in-variably fade. One coat of raw linseed lin-seed oil on new shingles gives an excellent ex-cellent color. The mineral red ground in oil may be had in the following sizes: 12 1-2, 2:. 50. and 100 pound kegs. To 25 pound? add two gallons of raw linseed lin-seed oil, and one quart of turpentine. Stir it 'well and your paint is ready. One ol the secrets of painting is to brush out your paint well, and noti have it too thick. One gallon properly prop-erly thinned should cover about 300 square feet of shingles, and 400 square feet of planed material. Now to the point; let us do more painting. Not. because they do it in the East, or some other place, but because it pays, and the result brings good interest on money invested Your buildings will last longer, besides painting improves the looks of your premises an hundred per cent, sets I good example for your neighbors, and I lifts the community to a higher standing. |
