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Whitewash for Out-Door Use

Take a clean water-tight barrel, or other suitable cask, and put into it 1/2 bushel lime. Slack it by pouring boiling water over it, and in sufficient quantity to cover 5 inches deep, stirring it briskly till thoroughly slacked.

When slacking has been effected, dissolve in water and add 2 pounds sulphate of zinc and 1 of common salt. These will cause the wash to harden and prevent it from cracking, which gives an unseemly appearance to the work. beautiful cream color may be Kalsomine and White-communicated to the above wash, by adding wash. The following receipts in- 3 pounds yellow ochre. This wash may be clude the methods of preparing and applying applied with a common whitewash-brush, and white and other coatings on walls, etc., as will be found much superior, both in appearwell as the preparatory treatment of the sur- ance and durability, to common whitewash. face to which they are to be applied, and other useful information. 2797. Treasury Department Whitewash. This receipt for whitewashing, sent out by the Lighthouse Board of the Treasury these well together, and let the mixture stand for several days. Keep the wash thus prepared in a kettle or portable furnace, and, when used, put it on as hot as possible, with painters' or whitewash-brushes.