The Somerset reporter., 1897-10-07
AUTUMN WORK.
Setting Ready Cold Frame sashes-Paini.
ing Farm Machinery and Fences.


ing Farm Machinery and Fences.
When done with the door and win.
dow screens, clean them off and e.
the wire coat of linseed OIL adding a
trif1e of Japan drier to do it. Do not
take too much off ON the brush, but rub
out well on both sides Thus treated
wire screens will last for several years
The foregoing is one of many helpful
hints from the pen of contributor to
Country Gentleman. Following are ad-
ditional suggestions from the same
source:
Look over the hotbed and cold frame
sashes, clean the glass and give wood
work coat of white paint When dry,
putty places needing it, then paint over
the putty Putty is usually mixture
of whiting and linseed oil, A little cot
tonseed oil will retard hardening. For
iron framed greenhouses add a little
white lead to the putty Glycerin will
keep putty elastic, so that it will not
harden perfectly This is useful on
greenhouse, hotbed, etc, sashes and on
skylights Keep putty in an earthon pot
and cover with water or wet rag.
To remove hard putty from sashes
without breaking glass hot poker or
other similar iron answers Run the
hot iron around the old putty Or mu
riatic acid, using rag tied to stick,
will remove or soften the old putty SO
that it may be removed with knife.
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the same thing, only it must not come
in contact with the painted work. This
is true, however. of heat and acid also
Clean up the farm machinery. Give
it coat or two of paint, For those ar
ticles used out in the weather mix lead
and oil together, adding little good
varnish and turpentine and some japan
drier. This gives hard elastic, good
wearing paint. Use any pigment to col
or with. Prussian blue and indian red,
in oil, are good coloring pigments. In
dian or tuscan red alone thinned with
oil and little varnish, gives fine col
or Grain machinery, hayrakes, etc,
look well done mainly with some vel
lowish color, like white lead paint
tinged with yellow ocher or with
chrome yellow. Ocher is a very durable
pigment, while chrome Ga chemical
product) is not. Indian red looks best ON
inside barn machinery. Blue looks too
dull On such machinery cleaning OF
and a coat Of varnish are usually sufli
cient Use good cOpal varniSh only
Good varnish has an agreeable odor
Of turpentine mainly, while poor var
nish smells Of benzine Good varnIsh
dries slowly; poor varnish, fast
Flower supporting sticks, trellises.
etc, should be cleaned of, painted
green and put away for next spring :
use.
On rough picket or board fence a
single coat of iron or ocher paint, mixed
in lnseed oil, will last well enough for
years. Two coats are still better. For
the barn use an ocher paint Ocher OF
best quality, of American sort, is best
Ocher consists mainly of silica, alumina
and ferric (iron) oxide 1t is fine clay
tinted with the iron oxide and Is one of
the most, if not altogether the most
durable of paint substances. French
ocher is too costly; SO get the best
American, which is nearly if not quite
as good and costs much less. Get it
ground in oil. i'll large cans. Thin il
with pure raw linseed oil and add ia
pan to dry it. Best japan will dry paint
in the proportion of of japan to Is ei
paint 1t should be very thin or liquid
and smell of turpentine, not benzine
or the ocher may be added to whit,
lead to make cream, straw or other vel.
lowish tints. Two-thirds white lead and
one third white zinc, combined, give a
better wearing paint than lead or zinc
alone Where cheaper mixture is de
sired add gilders bolted whiting Il
lead, half and half, and thin with oil