2770. To Make Paint without Oil or Lead

2770.    To Make Paint without Oil or Lead. "Whiting, 5 pounds; skimmed milk, 2 quarts; fresh slacked lime, 2 ounces. Put the lime into a stone- ware vessel, pour upon it a sufficient quantity of the milk to make a mixture resembling cream; 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. There may be added any coloring matter that suits the fancy, to be applied in the same manner as other paints, and in a few hours it will become perfectly dry. Another coat may then be added, and so on until the work is done. This paint is of great tenacity, bears rubbing with a coarse cloth, has little smell, even when wet, and when dry is inodorous. It also possesses the merit of cheapness, the above quantity being sufficient for 57 yards.

2771. Paint for Old Weather-Boarding, or Boat Bottoms

2771.    Paint for Old Weather-Boarding, or Boat Bottoms. Take 5 gallons boiled linseed oil, 4 gpllons raw oil, 1 gallon benzine, and 80 pounds Rocky Mountain vermilion.

2772. Fireproof Paint

2772.    Fireproof Paint. Take a quantity of the best quicklime, and slack with water in a covered vessel; when the slacking is complete, water or skim milk, or a mixture of both, should be added to the lime, and mixed up to the consistency of cream; then there must be added, at the rate of 20 pounds alum, 15 pounds potash, and 1 bushel salt to every 100 gallons of creamy liquor. If the paint is required to be white, 6 pounds plaster of Paris, or the same quantity of fine white clay, is to be added to the above proportions of the other ingredients. All these ingredients being mingled, the mixture must then be strained through a fine sieve, and afterwards ground in a color mill. When roofs are to be covered, or when crumbling brick walls are to be coated, fine white sand is mixed with the paint, in the proportion of 1 pound sand to 10 gallons of paint; this addition being made with a view of giving the ingredients a binding or petrifying quality This paint should always be applied in a hot state, and in very cold weather precautions are necessary to keep it from freezing. Three coats of this paint are deemed, in most cases, sufficient. Any color may be obtained by adding the usual pigments to the composition.

2773. To Paint an Old House

2773.    To Paint an Old House. Take 3 gallons water and 1 pint flax seed; boil 1/2 hour; take it off and add water enough to make 4 gallons; let it stand to settle; pour off the water in a pail, and put in enough of Spanish white to make it as thick as whitewash ; then add 1/2 pint linseed oil; stir it well and apply with a brush. If the whiting does not mix readily, add more water. Flax seed, having the nature of oil, is better than glue, and will not wash off as readily.