The Abbeville banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1847-1869, 1858-03-25
WHITE WASH FOR FARM HousEs.

| -, ''E'' 'oo'-DuiitiHSS, UarnS, &c.
we cannot do better than publish the fol-
lowing. 1t is beautiful, durable and chean:
Many h;ivc heard Of the brilliant stucco
white wash on the oast end Of tho D.os:
dents house at Washington. The following
Is receipt for it as CLEANED from tho Ma.
ho""l I"hItigc"cer, with some add;tion.,
improvements learned by experiments -
Take half Il bushcl of nice uuslucke1 ,;,,o
slack 1t with boiling water, cover it durnr
the process to keep in the steam. Strain
the liquid through fine sieve or str,;nor.
anu ;dd to ita peck Of salt, previously
well dissolved in warm water; three hounds
o1 ground rice boiled TO y thin paste, and
s''rred IN b"llIng:hot; half Il pound Of now
"ef"i :apah;sh whiting and a pound of clean
glue which has becn previously dissolved
by soaking it well, and then hanging it over
Slow lire, III II small kettle with a larpe
one filled with wafer. Add five gallons of
hot water to the mixture; stir it we'll and
let it stand fey days covered from tho
dirt
1t should he put on right hot; for this
purpose it can be kept in u kettle on y por-
table furnace: It is said that about IL pint
OF this mixture will cover square yard up-
ON the outside of house, if properly up.
pl'e'l. brushes more or less small NAV Le
Used according to the neatucss Of tia ;ob
required: II answers rs well as oil paint
1"r wood brick, or stone, aud is cheaper
IL retains 1t" brIiancy iof many years.
!hcrc Is nothing Of the kind that will com.
pare with 1t, either for outside or in side
walls: co'oring matter may be put in and
made OF any shade you like. Spanish brown
stirred in will make red pink, more or less
deep according to quantity. 4 deIica,a
t'nge OF this is very pretty for inside WALL
f'ncy Rulverized common clay, we'll mixed
with II, will make a redish stono color
fellow oclre stirred in makes yellow wash,
hut chrome goes furtlur, aud makes IL color
generally es:eemel prc,tcr. in all these
c'ses the darkness Of The shades Of course
is determined by the quantity Of coloriue
used. 1t is difficult to make rules, because
tastes are different; it would be best to try
experiments on sLingle and let it dry.-
We have hccn told that green must not he
mixed with lime. The lime DESTROYS the
color, and the color has an effect on the
wl'ltc-wash Which makes 1t crack and pcel
when walls have been badly smoked and
you wish to have them clean white, it is
wei! to squeeze indigo pcntifully through
Il bag into the water you Use, before it is
stirred into the white mixture. If q lar
ger quantity than five gallons be wanted
the same proportion should be obscryed.a
| 1om"toes-A correspondent of the Cen
csee Farmer gives his mode of prowing
tomatoes lie forwards his plants in hot
bed or green house, and grows them in pots
until they are foot or a foot and llalf
high, turning them out about the second
week in May. lie plants them three feet
apart in rows. When planted he drives
down a few stakes, six or eight feet apart,
leaving them about four feet high tIe whole
length of the rows and mailing 2 strip Of
wood a'l along the tops, and tying one or
two lower down the stakes, to make a
treilIs. The ground should be dug deeD
and made rich with manure, and spoonful
OF guano mixed with the soil round each
root. We qpote;" when they have grown
sufficiently long to tie to the treIlis, select
two or three of the longest shoots and tic
them loosely to the ,reIlis, cutting away All
other small laterals which may grow on the
main branches. l let these main branches
grow until they have come in flower and
set the first bunch Of fruit; then pinch
out the top, one joiRt aboye the fruit, leay--
ing the leaf entire. then allow it to
go o" again until it has qqwercq and set
another bunch Of fruit, when the Top is
pinchcd out one leaf above the bunch,
the same as the first, and so on Of ali
the rest taking care to cut all tile later.
ais which may grow on the main branches
down to the axies Of the leaves, rs often as
they are produced, but leaving tbe leaves
entire If any one wilItake this little extra
trouble, he will be amply repaid and abso.
luteIy asto"ishcd at the immense clusters
OF fine large tomatoes he will have. If
planted in a favorable situation, they will
ripen at least as early as those grown in any
other way out Of doors, and frequently three
days or week earlier. When ripe they
will hang longer on the vines without de-
caying. The situation can hardly be loo
sunny. Deep, light. .loamy soil suits the,p
best"
Saying and zhinking.---"Yop are very
handsoma0 ~ eaid n