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besides a few sash tools with which to touch up and for use 

 in small spaces and corners. It is a waste of time and 

 an annoyance to be obliged to wash or rub out brushes in 

 chano-ino; from one color to another. No brush should be 

 washed with soap and water ; it destroys its elasticity and 

 usefulness. If water is to be used in cleaning a brush, let 

 • it be well mixed with ammonia and used as warm as is com- 

 fortable to the touch. If brushes are washed in turpentine 

 or benzine, they must be cleansed from same and laid out for 

 a little time to allow the spirits to evaporate before painting 

 is resumed. Turpentine endangers the durability of paint. 



" One who does his own painting is not likely to be stint- 

 ed in time, and consequently will not need to spend money 

 for such large brushes as painters generally use. Brushes 

 made with a selected quality of Russia bristles and bound 

 with wire are considered the best, though there are very 

 good brushes bound with cord or twine, 



"A very good kind of flat brush, like a kalsomine or 

 whitewash brush, can be obtained, that answers quite well 

 for painting or oiling shingles or large surfaces ; they are 

 cheap and quite substantial, being bound in a 2:)atent rub- 

 ber composition, and need no extra binding or ' bridling.' 



"For laying on the body colors a round brush, not less 

 than 0000 in size, should be used, one for each color, also 

 one for the trim." 



No better firm for the purchase of building supplies of 

 all kinds, and oils, paints, varnishes, can be found than 

 that of S. B. Hubbard & Co., of Jacksonville, Florida. 

 Not every one is able to afford oil paints, however, and to 

 very many the cheap yet durable paints given below will 

 prove of great value. 



MILK PAINT. 



"The cheapest and best farmer's paint that I have any 

 knowledge of," says a well-known agriculturist, "isnoth- 



