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white. Whitewash gives a better colour if you can 

 make it so that the first shower will not wash it 

 off, a thing that I have never been able to do. 

 Powdered rice is mixed with it to make it stick. 

 If whitewash is to be used, the posts and pickets 

 should be made of rough, unplaned wood. 



The most charming results were produced in the 

 South with bricks, the people seeming to under- 

 stand their possibilities there better than in any 

 other part of the country. But the South was 

 more prosperous then than New England, and 

 bricks were an expensive material; for some years 

 they had to be imported from England. 



