WHITEWASH FORMULAS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20116, 29 November 1928, Page 18

WHITEWASH FORMULAS.

AMERICAN IDEAS. The fo lowing formulas are recommended by American agricultural experiment stations for whitewash for dairy and other fan n buildings. [ hey are taken from a list, published in Hoad's Dairyman:—

J Mir. 501b. hydratcd lirne with 8 gallons; boiling water. Add 101b. common salti and lib. alum dissolved in 6 gallons boif ing water. Stir mixture well, adding 511* cement..

3. Slake 101b. quicklime in 2 gallons waj er, cover and let stand for an hour. Tho n add sufficient water, to bring the mi.* ture to thickness of thin cream.

3 Factory whitewash: (a) Beat up a jib. rye flour in a pint of cold water, then add 1 gallon of boiling water, (b) Dissolve jib. of common salt in 2 quarts of h'jpt water. Mix A and B then stir this into a solution of 101b. quicklime slashed in 2 gallons of water. 4. Weatherproof whitewash for extc/iots: Slake 621b. quicklime in 12 gaily OS of l ot water, and add 21b. salt and lj'f>. sulphate of zinc dissolved in 2 galId as of toiling water. To this mixture add 2 gallons of skim milk and stir well. ,b. Slake quicklime with water, and acl-il sufficient skim milk to bring to the consistency of thin cream. To each gallon add loz. of salt and 2oz. of brown su «;ar dissolved in water. The germicidal V 3 I lie may be increased by adding £lb. chltnidp of lime to every .30 callous of W afill

6. Slake quicklime with enough water U i make a thick paste. While it is slakadd a pint of melted lard or other g:r rase and a cupful of salt to a bushel of liino Add enough water to bring the so |nt on to tho consistency of thin cream, in:trl strain through hessinn. For a chicken fuciiso or barn where milk is not kept it '■>•3 to add 4oz. of sorno coal tar di linfectant to every gallon of mixture.

1. An ounce of alum to a gallon of w Jiitewiish will prevent its rubbing off. A I'i Jit ot mnlasses to 5 gallons of whitewash n <<l,es tli,j lime more soluble, and causes tlr whitewash to penetrate further into v> I'od A pound of cheap bar soap dis- -•< ) 1 \<■ d in a gallon of water and added to

i-' gallons of lliick whitewash will give it. a loss like oil paint. A pint of disinfectant i I frequently udded to each 4 gallons of v iliiteu;ish