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The following recipe for milk paint is given in " Smith's 

 A.rt of House-painting." Take of skim-milk, nearly 

 two quarts ; of fresh-slacked lime, about six ounces and 

 a half; of linseed oil four ounces, and of whiting three 

 pounds ; put the lime into a stone vessel, and pour upon 

 it a sufficient quantity ofmilktoform a mixture resembling 

 thin cream ; then add the oil, a little at a time, stirring it 

 with a small spatula ; the remaining milk is then to be 

 added, and lastly the whiting. The milk must on no ac- 

 count be sour. Slake the lime by dipping the pieces in 

 water, out of which it is to be immediately taken, and left 

 to slack in the air. For fine white paint, the oil of cara- 

 away is the best, because colorless ; but with ochres, the 

 commonest oils maybe used. The oil, when mixed with 

 the milk and lime, entirely disappears, and is totally dis- 

 solved by the lime, forming a calcareous soap. The 

 whiting or ochre is to be gently crumbled on the surface 

 of the fluid, which it gradually imbibes, and at last sinks : 

 at this period it must be well stirred in. This paint may 

 be colored like distemper, or size-color, with levigated 

 charcoal, yellow ochre, etc., and used in the same manner. 

 The quantity here prescribed is sufficient to cover twenty 

 square yards with the first coat, and will cost about three, 

 half- pence a yard. The same paint will do for out-door 

 work, by the addition of two ounces of slacked lime, two 

 ounces of linseed oil, and two ounces of white Burgundy 

 pitch : the pitch to be melted in a gentle heat with the oil, 

 and then added to the smooth mixture of the milk and lime. 

 In cold weather it must be mixed warm, to facilitate its 

 incorporation with the milk. 



MENDING CHINA. 



When holes are required to be drilled in china or earth- 

 enware for the purpose of riveting it when broken, procure 

 a three-cornered file, and harden it completely by making 



