The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1883-06-28
Milk Paint.

A paint mas Deen used on the
continent with success made from
milk and lipe that dries quicker
than oil paints and las 20 smell
1t is made in the following manner.
Take fresh curds and bruse the
Jumps on grinding stone or in al
earthen pan or mortar with a spatu-
la or strong spoon. Then put into
pot with an equal quantity OF
lime well slaked with water to make
it just thick enough to be 'kneaded.
Stir this mixtlre without adding
more water, and q White-cglQreq
fluid will soon be obtained, which
will serve as a paint 1t may be
laid on with brush with as much
ease as varnish, and it dries very
speedily. 1t must, however, be
used the same day it is made, for
if kept till next day It will be too
thick; consequently no more must
be mixed up at one time than cdn
be laid on in dqy. IF any color is
required, any of the ochTes, or gel
low ochre, or red ochFe, or lumber,
may be mixed with it in any pro-
portion. Prussian blue would be
changed'by the lime. Two coats of
this paint will be sufficient, and
when quite dry it may be polished
witha piece of wooden cloth or SINH
lar substance. aRd It will become as
bright as Varnish. 1t will only do
for inside work, but it will last
longer if vanished over with white
of egg after it has been polished.
The following recipe fer paint is
given in Smith START Of House Paint
ing; Take of skinned milk near
ly two quartsj Of fresh slaked lime
about six ounces and a hall; Ct lin
seed Oil four ouuces, and of whiting |
three pounds; put the lime into a
stone vessel and pour upon it q suf
ficient quantity of milk to fcFm 2 |
mixture resembling thin cream;
then add the OIL, little at a time,
stirring it with a small spatula; the
remaining milk is then to be added, !
and lastly the whiting. The milk
must on no aeoo9nt be sour. Stake
the lime by dipping the pieces in
water, out of which it is to be ird-
mediately taken and left to Stake in
the air. = For fine white paint the
oil of caraway is best, because col
orless ;but ochres aRdthe commonest
oils may be used. The oil when
mixed with the milk and lime en-
tirely disappears and is totally dis
solved by the lime, forming a calca-
reous soap. The whiting or ochre
is to be gently crumbled on the sur
face of the fluid, which it gradually
imbibes, and at last Sinks 1t This
period it must be well stirred in.
This paint may be colOred like dis
temper or size color with levigated
charcoal, yellow ochEe, ETC.; and
used in the same manner. EheI
quantity here prescribed is sufficient
to cover tWenty-seyen square yards
with the first coat, ald it will cost
about three halfpence a yard. The
same paint will do for outdoor work
BY the addition of two ounces of
'laked lime, two ounces of linseed
oil and two ounces of white ergun
ly pitch, the pitch to be melted in
/ gentle heat with the oil and then
added to the smooth mixture of the
milk and lime. In cold weather it
must be mixed warm to facilitate ;
is incorporation with the milk"
We add several recipes of various
kinds of paint to be EN- ;
lloyed in particular situations and ;
special purposes:
"A coating to preserve good in !
lamp situations may be made by
'eating twelve pounds of resin in a {
Mortar, and adding to it three :
pounds of sulphur and twelve pints
f whale oil. This mixture must
hen be melted over fire and i
TIRED well while it is melting.
)chre of any required color ground i
n oil map be put to it. This com t
,osition must be laid on hot, t