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THE FAKMEKY. 



[Chap. 111. 



riie size of the brushes used should be adapted to the work required. This 

 (Miiiposilion answers as well as oil paint on wood or stone, and is cheaper. 

 It retains its brilliancy for many years. 



Coloring may be j)nt in, and made of any shade you like. Spanish bi'owr. 

 siirred in will make red pink, more or less deep to the quantity. A delicate 

 tinge of this is very jjretty for inside walls. Finely pulverized common 

 clay, well mixed with Spanish brown, makes a reddish stone color. Yellow 

 ucher stirred in makes yellow wash, but chrome goes further, and makes a 

 color generally esteemed prettier. In all these cases the darkness of the 

 shades is determined of course by the quantity of coloring used. It is diffi- 

 cult to make rules, because tastes are difierent ; it would be best to try 

 experiments on a shingle, and let it dry. We have been told that green 

 must not be mixed with lime. The lime destroys the color, end the color 

 has an effect on the whitewash, which makes it crack and peel. "When 

 walls have been badly smoked, and you wish to have them a clean white, it 

 is well to squeeze indigo plentifully through a bag into the water you use, 

 before it is stirred into the mixture. If a larger quantity than five gallons 

 be wanted, the same proportion should be observed. 



The above is the receipt that has been so long in circulation as that which 

 gave the original whiteness to the " "White House" at Washington. 



In oil painting, never suli'er a painter to use unboiled oil upon any of 

 your buildings or farm implements, and certainly never suffer, yourself Ic 

 leave any of them unpainted. Take care that the painter is not too liberal 

 in the use of his " driers" in your paint. Tint is to please the eye. Oil 

 preserves the wood, and one coat of boiled oil is worth three of unboiled. 



All farm buildings should be oil-painted or M'hitewashed. Whitewash 

 tends to jircserve wooden buildings more than any ordinary coat of paint, 

 particularly such a one as would be given to unplaned boards, which is a 

 better condition for whitewashing than when smooth. The ice-house should 

 be whitewashed on the outside as often as it is necessary to keep it perfectly 

 white, as that is an important aid toward keeping it cool. 



3C4. Farmery Gates. — No farmery can be considered at all complete that 

 is not ani])ly furnished Avitli gates, constructed with particular adaptation to 

 their several situations, and arranged in the most perfect manner with 

 hinges, latches, and fastenings. Tliero is to us no greater evidence of a 

 slovenly farmer than is furnished by half-dilapidated, or at best incon- 

 venient, bar.'. These bar-ways may answer in field fences, where they are 

 seldom to be opened, but they are a nuisance about the farmery. Most of 

 the farmery gates should be self-closing, and made to swing so that an 

 animal could not push against and open the gate. In some places a gate 

 can not be made to awing either way ; then it must be made to open upon 

 some one of the several plans that have been made for convenient opening 

 in a straight line. One of the sort patented by some one in Oneida County, 

 N. Y., is a very easy working gate. It is made of very light stuff, and for 

 a wagon-way a pair, each five feet long, are set between posts nine feet 



