The RURAL. NEW-YORKER 
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Spraying Out Whitewash 
In regard to whitewash spraying T may 
be able to give a little information. I 
followed whitewash spraying as a busi¬ 
ness for several years. I found it to be 
practical, doing the work much better, 
quicker and easier than could be done 
with the brush. I would not advise it on 
dwelling houses, although I have whitened 
kitchen ceilings in this way: it was when 
the room was empty and the floor and 
stove covered with papers. Even then 
some of the spray mist would stick to 
the walls and windows, and had to be 
wiped off. For cellars, chicken houses 
and barns, where spray drip was not an 
objection, it is the only really good way 
to put on either whitewash or paint. For 
oil paint they have a special machine 
that I never tried to use. 
With regard to nozzles or machines, I 
have used different kinds with equal suc¬ 
cess. The''secret is not in the kind of 
tools used so much as it is in the manner 
of handling the whitewash or cold water 
paint. For spraying it is imperative that 
the whitewash be well made, of good con- 
sistency and most carefully strained. Any 
dirt or unstrained whitewash is fatal to 
success. For my own purpose I put the 
whitewash through an 80-mesli brass 
screen. I have also used cheesecloth and 
burlap as a strainer. If carefully used 
it will work fairly well, but is not so 
good. In any case have a clean barrel 
into which the whitewash is strained be¬ 
fore any attempt is made to use the spray 
pump. Thi* strained whitewash should 
be used within an hour or so after it is 
strained, as it is inclined to thicken by 
standing. l>o not thin the whitewash too 
much; it is of no advantage and will not 
make a good job. Prepare it about the 
same as for brush work. I preferred it 
a trifle heavier. Immediately on finish¬ 
ing a job wash out the hose and pump 
by running clear water through it. 
While I never did this on moving from 
one job to another. I was most careful 
to clean the machine at night. This is 
even more important when cold water 
paint is used. While there are other 
serious difficulties one will meet if much 
work of this kind is done, especially with 
a power sprayer, still one following these 
directions carefully should be able to do 
a good job of whitewashing. For my 
work I made my own nozzles, as white¬ 
wash wears the ordinary nozzle more 
rapidly than does tree spraying. Fse a 
nozzle giving a solid rather than fan¬ 
shaped spray, and while spraying keep 
it moving with a rather steady but mod¬ 
erate motion. if- bettes. 
Ohio. 
Handling an Old Chicken Yard 
What is the reason a disused chicken 
yard will grow most enormous weeds, 
such as lamb's-quartem or pigweed, wild 
mustard, etc., and absolutely nothing else? 
The ground is like ashes for fineness, and 
when spaded is deep. I have tried po¬ 
tatoes, beans, onions, beets and cucum¬ 
bers. also corn, but nothing grows. I do 
not need the land, as I have plenty of 
garden room, but I do not like to grow 
weeds, nor vegetables for nothing. 
Marlboro, N. Y. K. E. c. 
Of course, any rich soil will gro\ 
“enormous weeds.” Some of those weed 
are perfect gluttons for plant food. W 
once had an old chicken yard in wide] 
the weeds grew head high. We cut then 
with a scythe and hauled loads of then 
up to the orchard, where they wer 
dumped around the trees. This stuff wa 
as good as manure. We never saw 
piece of ground which would grow lamb’s 
quarters and pigweed which could not b 
made to grow garden crop®. Fsunll; 
such soil is rich in nitrogen, qidte sou 
and very open and porous. A hear, 
dressing of lime raked or harrowed ii 
after plowing will sweeten the soil am 
make it more compact. Then a gooi 
supply of fine ground bone or acid phos 
plinte will “balance” the nitrogen am 
give body and seed to the plant. Thus 
who read this will say we have said i 
many times before. We have. It is th 
simplest story of treating land that i 
rich and sour. There are many sour riel 
men who grow nothing but tin* weeds o 
health. Give them much the same treat 
meat. Take away their meat, make then 
live on cereals and fruits, make them suv 
vood six hours a day, and quit growling 
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