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Show WHITEWASH SURE TO STICK i I Preparation Easily Made and Will Add Greatly to Appearance of Many Farm Buildings. There are many brick and stone j walls, as well as wooden outbuildings, fences and the like, about a suburban subur-ban place which, lacking paint, detract de-tract much from the general appearance appear-ance of the home. But paint is somewhat some-what expensive and cannot be applied with too lavish a hand by the average citizen. There is, however, whitewash, white-wash, which is easily made and applied, ap-plied, is inexpensive and which for most outdoor work will answer quite as well as oil paint. For chicken houses, brick walls and the like it is excellent. To make the whitewash Blake half a bushel of fresh lime with boiling water, keeping it covered during the process. The lime should not, of course, be confined, but merely covered, cov-ered, as confined, it possesses considerable consid-erable explosive force. Strain it and add a peck of salt dissolved in warm water, three pounds of ground rice put in boiling water and boiled to a thin paste, half a pound of powdered Spanish whiting and a pound of clear glue dissolved in warm water. Mix these well together and let the mixture mix-ture stand for seven days in a reasonably reason-ably cool and shaded place. Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle, and when it is being used put it on as hot as possible, using a painter's or an ordinary whitewash brush. Always Al-ways use maguesian lime for whitewash. |
