The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-09-29
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outhouses to paint, but they
cannot afford to use white lead,
and they ask sis there no kind of
durable paint that l can use which
is cheap?' To meet this demand
for cheap paints, every owner of
land that contained a substance
that could be ground, or pulverized,
and made paint when mixed with
oil has barreled up this commod-
ity, branded it "Mineral Paint"
and put it in the market; but
twent years Of experience with the
most of these paints shows that
they are of very little value, and
my advice to farmers IS to have
nothing to do with them, as they
must be mixed with linseed Gil to
be of any value on buildings and
this kind of paint soon fades In
color, and is washed off by the
rains after the first season, There
is no kind of paint that can be
used on out-buildings, or any 9th
er buildings, that will give salts
faction, except white lead and lin
seed oil. Zinc makes as good a
paint, it is dearer than lead. Then
we have chemical paints that
also are good, being made in part
of zinc. and ready mixed and
colored. 1 can recommend "the
Averill Chemical Paints" thus
mixed and colored, as equal
in durability to white lead, but
it costs about the same price as
lead; and I have found no advan-
tage in using it over white lead.
If an clubhouse first receive q
good heavy coat of crude petroleum
kerosene unrefined) put on with
q whitewash brush, then let it dry
a few weeks, and then apply oil
and you will have q paint that viii
not be expensive, while it will be
very durable, and equal to two
ordinary coats of paint, Crude
petroleum has been selling as low
as ten cents per gallon by the
barrel.
PROPER TINE FOR PAINTING, DC.
October and November are the
best fall months for painting the
outsides of buildings. 1t is folly
to hire a painter to paint outbuIld'
ings, when the owner has nothing
that he can work at himself to
advantage, Every farmer and
owner of village residence who
desires to econmize should know
how to use . paint brush. He can
learn in one day to do a fair job
notwithstanding that professions
painters may say that he vii
''spoil the work and waste a great
deal of paint" Anybody can mix
white lead and oil. Four gallons
of oil are enough for 100 pounds
Of lead, and a good color for any
house can be made with burnt
um Der, as light or az dark as yoI
please. Use half raw and hal
boiled oil, with no drier, and buy
your oil of oil merchants when you
can. 1 have just bought raw oil al
55 cents, and boiled at 60 cents pei
gallon, by the can of ten gallons
the cheapest that I ever purchased
it, and of good quality. Buy the
best of brushes, as q two dollar
brush is cheaper in the end thar
one of the same size for one dollar
II you have fences to paint, one
of your boys should do the work
Let him learn h0w to do it b.
practice. I have often made 6
good fence painter Of q boy Is Il
lS years old in q week, then he cal
be set at Clubhouse pain ting. Ii
brief farmers should seldom emplo,
q professional painter for AM
kind of work, when they have
sons grown up almost to man
heod, or when they themselves
can find time to- do their owl
painting and save the expense.
refer to men Who.are compelled II
be econoimlal in these times
Painters, however, must live q
well as other people by theil
trade. Let ne take . look inside
of your dwelling. These rooms
need painting badly. Get som,
white lead, and spirits of turpen
tine (no OILY, and let your wife o
daughter paint one room on trial
Many . lady has put on 9 painting
arig," and painted rooms al4os
as well a. q practical painter. o
in the winter season, OF on stormy
days, you might paint thesl
rooms yourself. One doesn'i
know what he can do till he makes
q trail. Money. saved in this wa
lis money earned.