The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1872-09-12
AGRICULTURAL.


MATERIALS ron wANI%G AND poL#uITG
FLOORS.
For waxing wooden floors the fol-
loving preparation is recommended:
dissolve three ounces Of potash and
four diams of catcchuo in four
pounds Of boiling water in an o,rth-
en- pot. When these ingredients are
dissolved, add two pounds of water,
and boil again, stirring in four and II
hall ounces OF yellow wax with II
wooden rod. Continue boiling I'M
til all the humps Of wax disappear.
Let it cool and add three pounds
more of water. In this condition it
IS ready for use. by boiling the
wax and potash together II soluble
wax soap IL formed, SO that II floor
waXed up with this preparation may
be swept, and cannot bc washed with
water, for that would dissolve orflho
soluble wax soap. For this reason
an oil p int is preferable to wax pol
ish, thr only advantage of the latter
beng that it dries quickly, while oil
paints, requires u long time, during
which time the room cannot be used.
For painting floors tho mineral
pants are exclusively used. Paints
which contain white lead arc too soft,
and wear of very easily, If II floor
painted with coIorS wears of nm
reasonably fast, it is sure proof that
the PAINT contained white lead. This
general y happens because such col
orS cover better, and are more easily
applied. Even the use OF yarnIah
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gancso preferred. As a rule, il
should have two colts, but the
grcatcst care should be taken tI,t
the first be perfectly dry before the
second apuL ON
After the floor has been tainted
in order to rive it polish and make
tho surface more permanent, it is
coutod with what iscallcd "noor lac,'
which may be made thus:
Dissolve one ounce Of shrlluc in
one fourth OF Il pound Of eighty per
cent h%pirils, and add io fine solution
one druu Of camphor, and strain
ont the lees in II linen cloth. This
III /, used after the paint is div. and
lives more |tcna,ity to the surface.
4 fresh coat of lac may bo applied
from time to time, as it wears off,
andy ,u have always II iino polishol
surface, which can be washed
.youuai OF IuuIi,d Cbcmish,u
I'M N''O VI LUZ ''''"'
The Southern Agricultural Press
are s]trcnuoubIy advocating thu estab-
IIshmcnt Of manufacturers in the
Cotton States, instead OF being as
they now ARE, ut the mercy Of spec
ulators, WHO send their crops some
thousands of miles to be made into
cloth. 1t rs claimed that they have
every natural facility needed, ana amy
amount Of water power at hand.
They Iced the population mat man
u~tacturlng would bring to them ana
the business stimulus that would
follow such enterprise. Diversified
farming 10 also advocated more
grass and stock and less cotton +; also
the divisions Of the large plantations
into small farms. All OF tins advice
IS undoubtedly good. The South
needs, and must have something diff
frrent from the Ore sent plantation
system to ever be either IL desirable
place to emigrate to, or ever be real
" prosperous. We notice that some
Of the papers are advocating Il better
and cheaper class of laborers, and
arc trying to get the Chinese there.
Here is where they are sadly at fault.
inducements will produce
laborers and if they oncour-
lge an emigration that will make
buy land, raise children, and
school houses, cultivate farms,
make roads, and become II part and
parcel of the country all will be ben
=; while, even with manufac,
an influx of Chinese would