The Arizona sentinel., 1886-11-13
PAINTING FOR PROFIT.
How Paint Should Be Applied to Farm
 Implements, Gates and Barns.

How Paint Should Be Applied to Farm
 Implements, Gates and Barns.
 Paint sinks into the pores of wood
 and covers its surface, protecting it
 from air and water, the two great
 agents of decay. Yet strange to say farmers are slow to use paint. Brown mineral paint is very cheap and any farmer can mix it with the oil. It is good for outbuildings and roofs. Many farmers are kept from using paint be- cause they think a high-priced mechanic must be employed to mix and apply it. But for outside work and implements the farmer can mix any paints he needs, or he can buy paints already mixed; and he can put them on himself. Roofs are rarely painted, and yet they need the protection of paint as much as any part of the building, and their dura- bility will be doubled if they are kept protected. It will pay to paint the boards of an ordinary fence; and it is highly profitable first 10 paint the part that comes against the post. If this be done and the nails are dipped in paint just before they are driven, the boards will last three times as long as they would without paint.
 When make gate paint all tenons and all parts that join before the gate is put together, and then paint the gate well when it is done; and 1 have now pine gates twenty-five years old that are sound. It will pay to drive the heads of the nails below the surface, using a spike, and then fill the hole with putty before the gate. fence or whatever 1t
 may be, IS painted. The putty and paint will prevent rusting of the nails and decay of the wood. am now using wagon-the first 1 ever bought and the only one I had for some years that I have had in hard use for twenty-six years, and it is yet good wagon; have given it coat of paint every third year. From my own ex- perence, and observation among neigh bors, I know that paint rightly used will increase the durability of blows, harrows and the other commoner inn plements one-hah, and of machinery seventy-five to one hundred per cent.
 To farm implements and machinery the paint must be applied to the metal as well as to the wood; and it is highly important that both be first thoroughly cleaned For implements, gates, etc, it is better to use red lead paint. It costs more than the brown mineral, and it is not so convenient, as only enough for immediate use should be mixed at time, but for the work designated it is far the better. Mix it with boiled oil. Use tablespoonful of Japan drier to each pint of oil. This paint is waterproof and very good cement. hence is just the thing to use when joining tanks or troughs, and on them when they are completed. The paint must be stirred occasionally, else it will settle. Paint applied to farm makes it more durable. Breakages nearly always occur because of the unnotlced decay of the wood or rusting of the metal part, which would have been avoided by the application of paint Moreover, the paint permits of better work Good work can not be done with a rusty hoe, fork, blow or mower. And as the paint makes the implement look more neat. the user of it naturally tries to do better work with it.
 The little kegs containing the red lead are just the things to mix the paint in. They are quite heavy, hence are not easily overturned. You will need Hat brush for large surfaces, and small ''striping" with which to get into the corners. And I do not think you can spend money to better advantage, or do more profitable work, than in giving and machines a coat of paint as they are put away for the sea- son. Two coatings will be better than one, and likely three will be none too many. Some object to paint an axe, fork or rake handles. If this objection cannot be overcome, at least coat these parts with linseed oil. If it is applied hot, it will be better absorbed. While the oil alone is not so good a preserve tive as when mixed with paint, it will protect quite we'll from decay. It also increases the durability of these handles by preserving the fiber of the wood. it from becoming brittle or brask k-J0bq 4, Stahh. ig Y r Trio Sne