Wash Wash For Barns And Houses

Water lime, 1 peck; freshly slacked lime, 1 peek; yellow ochre in powder, 4 lbs.; burnt amber, 4, lbs. To be dissolved in hot water, and applied with a brush.

Durable Outside Paint

Take 2 parts (in bulk) of water lime, ground fine; 1 part (in bulk) of white lead, in oil. Mix them thoroughly, by adding best boiled linseed oil, enough to prepare it to pass through a paint mill; alter which, temper with oil till it can be applied with a common paint brush. Make any color to suit It will last 3 times as long as lead paint. It is SUPERIOR.

Premium Paint, Without Oil Or Lead

Slack stone lime with boiling water in a tub or barrel to keep in the steam; then pass 6 quarts through a fine sieve. Now to this quantity add 1 quart of coarse salt, and 1 gallon of water; boil the mixture, and skim it clear. To every 5 gallons of this skimmed mixture, add 1 lb. alum; ½ lb. copperas; and by slow degrees ¾ lb. potash, and 4 quarts sifted ashes or fine sand; add any coloring desired. A more durable paint was never made.

Green Paint For Garden Stands, Blinds, Etc

Take mineral green, and white lead ground in turpentine; mix up the quantity you wish with a small quantity of turpentine varnish. This serves for the first coat. For the second, put as much varnish in your mixture as will produce a good gloss. If you desire a brighter green, add a little Prussian blue, which will improve the color.

To Make Paint Without Lead Or Oil

Whiting, 5 lbs.; skimmed milk, 2 qts.; fresh slacked lime, 2 oz. Put the lime into a stone-ware vessel, pour upon it a sufficient quantity of the milk to make a mixture resembling en-am; the balance of the milk is then to be added; and lastly, the whiting is to be crumbled upon the surface of the fluid, in which it gradually sinks. At this period, it must be well stirred in, or ground as you would other paint, and it is fit for use.

Substitute For White Lead

Hard cake stearlnc, 100 lbs.; bleached resin, 90 lbs.; fine potato starch, 26 lbs. Melt and mix well. Then add mucilage, 20 lbs.; stir well, till nearly cool; then put away for use.

Flexible Paint For Canvas

Yellow soap, 2½ lbs., boiling water, 1½ gals., dissolve; grind the solution while hot with good oil paint, 1¼ cwt. Use for canvas.

Painter's Cream

Pale nut oil, 6 or., mastic, 1 oz., dissolve; add of sugar of lead, ¼ oz., previously ground in the least possible quantity of oil, then add of water q.8., gradually, until it acquires the consistency of cream, working it well all the time. Used to cover the unfinished work of painters. It will wash off with water.