Ingredients
- two pounds of sulphate of zinc
- three pounds yellow ochre
- four pounds umber
- one pound indian red
- one pound lampblack
- one pounds lampblack
- salt
Directions
When oil paint cannot be afforded for fences and outhouses, a good whitewash will look well and durable. The following wash is excellent.
Take a clean barrel that will hold water. Put into it half a bushel of quicklime, and slake it by pouring over it boiling water sufficient to cover it four or five inches deep, and stir- ring it until slaked. When quite slaked, dissolve it in water, and add two pounds of sulphate of zinc, which may be had at any of the druggists, and one of common salt, and which in a few days will cause the whitewash to harden on the woodwork. Add sufficient water to bring it to the consistency of thick whitewash.
To make the above wash of a pleasant cream color, add three pounds yellow ochre.
For fawn color add four pounds umber, one pound Indian red, one pound lampblack.
For grey or stone color, add four pounds umber and twenty- one pounds lampblack.
The color may be put on with a common whitewash brush, and will be found much more durable than common whitewash.